World Screen

In the face of stiff competition, producers of tween programming are still looking for news ways of appealing to a broad, and fickle, demographic. By Mansha Daswani October 2006 At the end of August, Disney Channel in the U.S. broadcast …

NEW YORK, October 4: Simon Philips, previously the managing director of 4Kids International, has been appointed as the new president of Marvel International, effective November 13, succeeding Bruno Maglione, who last month joined IMG. Philips will oversee Marvel’s international consumer …

NEW YORK/LONDON, October 4: AETN International has appointed Jonathan South as director of international content sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Based in London, South oversees syndicated program sales to EMEA for AETN International’s catalog. He reports to …

TORONTO, October 4: DECODE Entertainment has secured a range of deals in Latin America on its key animated and live-action titles, including the Aardman Animations co-production Planet Sketch. Mexican network Canal Once picked up Planet Sketch as well as the …

STOCKHOLM/ISTANBUL, October 4: Sparks Network has added a new member to its worldwide format organization: Ay Yapim in Turkey. Ay Yapim is the holding company of a production outfit and a distribution outfit with Tara Film and Primareplik, as well …

TORONTO, October 4: Disney Channel in the U.S. has acquired the first season of This is Emily Yeung from marblemedia distribution for its Playhouse Disney preschool block. The series is a spin off of This is Daniel Cook, which also …

NEW YORK, October 4: Lightworks Program Distribution has lined up relationships with Daro Film Distribution, GA & A, JC Media, Peace Arch Television and Vision Plus Entertainment to complement its worldwide distribution activities on key titles like Michael Apted's Being …

PARIS, October 4: Ed Galton, the executive VP of business development at Xilam, tells World Screen Newsflash about the company’s two new properties for MIPCOM: Rintindumb and Rahan, Son of the Dark Age. Rintindumb is made up of 75 1 …

TORONTO, October 4: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has acquired the U.S. and international distribution rights to four new films, bringing to 20 the total number of new features and television movies that the company has acquired in the last 12 …

MIAMI, October 4: Panama’s Telemetro Channel 13 will produce a local version of Televisa Estudios’ variety format Dancing for a Dream (Bailando por un Sueno) as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. In the show, eight contestants will team up …