World Screen

LOS ANGELES/ATLANTA, July 13: Wireless carrier Cingular and HBO have launched mobile mini-episodes of the comedy Entourage featuring some the show’s key cast members. The mobisodes are available to Cingular Video customers who subscribe to HBO Mobile. They see character …

MONTREAL, July 13: The Cookie Jar Group has offloaded its 20-percent stake in the TELETOON network to Astral Media and Corus Entertainment for C$96 million. Astral and Corus each picked up a 10-percent stake, bringing their respective shares up to …

SANTA MONICA, July 13: A day after acquiring the independent distributor Debmar-Mercury, Lionsgate has further strengthened its library with the acquisition of the U.S. television, DVD and some VOD rights to some 2,000 English- and French-language titles from Studio Canal. …

SUN VALLEY, July 13: At Allen & Company’s Sun Valley media conference this week, senior Televisa executives reportedly met with representatives from the consortium that is in the process of buying Univision about the possibility of retaining its stake in …

HOLLYWOOD, July 13: According to wire reports, The Walt Disney Company is planning a significant work force reduction and is set to slash its annual feature film output from 18 to 8. Further, according to Daily Variety, the bulk of …

SYDNEY, July 13: The Australian government today announced a slate of reforms for the media industry, including the relaxation of cross-media and foreign-ownership rules, the lifting of programming restrictions on ABC and SBS’s digital channels, and granting commercial free-to-air broadcasters …

HOLLYWOOD, July 12: Fox Mobile Entertainment’s Mobizzo has appointed Natalie Farsi as senior VP of content and m-commerce. In this newly created position, Farsi is responsible for overseeing content and m-commerce and is responsible for expanding the group's content offering. …

AMSTERDAM, July 12: Filming has begun on The Lost Kingdom of Guge, a one-hour investigative documentary that is being co-produced by Off the Fence, France 5, Bang Singapore and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA). The film aims to …

TORONTO, July 12: Picture Box Distribution’s award-winning preschool series Nanalan has launched on 10 PBS member stations, with further stations set to roll out the show this fall. The seven-year distribution deal with PBS will make the 41 30-minute episodes …

MIAMI, July 12: MTV Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic channel MTV Tr3s will produce the newest edition in the MTV Unplugged franchise, featuring Ricky Martin, this August for broadcast in November. MTV Unplugged: Ricky Martin marks the 19th MTV …