World Screen

MIAMI, August 2: The joint Yahoo! and Telemundo web portal has launched a Short Film Festival with the winning title to be featured on the Telemundo and mun2 networks. The Yahoo! Telemundo Short Film Festival, sponsored by Toyota Yaris, invites …

LONDON, August 2: John de Mol’s Talpa Beheer investment vehicle has acquired a 3.1-percent stake in the British outfit Shed Productions, the company behind Footballers’ Wives. According to reports, de Mol, who also owns stakes in RDF Media and Tinopolis …

SINGAPORE, August 2: The Media Development Authority of Singapore is calling for proposals for online content as part of its Synthesis funding scheme that provides financing for Web-based productions. Launched in August of last year, Synthesis will provide funding of …

ATLANTA, August 2: TBS viewers will be able to win cash by text-messaging, calling in or logging onto the Internet with the new late-night live game show Midnight Money Madness from Endemol. A creation of the format giant’s Digital Media …

SANTA MONICA, August 2: Lionsgate has elected to delist from the Toronto Stock Exchange as a result of low trading volume. The delisting, effective July 31, 2006, allows the studio to avoid the costs associated with multiple exchange listings. Lionsgate …

NEW YORK, August 2: Confirming speculation, Time Warner today announced that its AOL service will offer its software, e-mail and other services for free to broadband users, as it works to bolster its online advertising business. "For the first time …

SILVER SPRING, August 2: Judith McHale will step down as the president and CEO of Discovery Communications on December 1 in order to “participate more directly in discussions related to critical domestic and global issues,” the company said in a …

BURBANK, August 2: ABC will not proceed with a planned mini-series project with Mel Gibson on the Holocaust, wire reports indicate, following his drunken anti-Semitic remarks at the end of last week. On July 28, the movie star was arrested …

NEW YORK, August 2: George Kliavkoff has been named as NBC Universal's first chief digital officer, a post that will see him bolstering the company’s digital media strategy and overseeing broadband and wireless initiatives as well as the Digital Studios, …

MUNICH, August 2: ProSiebenSat.1 Group has reported second quarter revenues of 550.9 million euros, an 8.5-percent gain on a year ago, with profits up 16.3 percent to 83.4 million euros. “The ProSiebenSat.1 Group had a successful second quarter, despite the …