World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Ward Platt has been named chief operating officer of FOX International Channels (FIC) and CEO of National Geographic Channels International (NGCI), a promotion that sees him relocating to Los Angeles. Platt has been serving as the president of Asia …

NEW YORK: A new Ernst & Young study predicts that by 2015, 57 percent of revenues for media and entertainment companies will come from digital activities, as compared with 47 percent this year. The findings come from a survey, conducted with …

NEW YORK: Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Media has sealed a deal to distribute content from iN DEMAND in China, while also delivering Chinese-language movies to cable VOD platforms across the U.S. Wu’s Seven Stars Media was created to develop, aggregate and distribute films …

NEW YORK: The June/July NATPE Budapest digital editions of World Screen, TV Europe and TV Kids, which is also headed to the Licensing Expo, are now available. World Screen Hot Topic: Some Central and Eastern European markets have bounced back …

SYDNEY: SBS has tapped Alison Sharman, who previously held roles as the director of factual and daytime for ITV and the controller of children’s at the BBC, for the new position of head of commissioning. Sharman will be responsible for leading …

NEW YORK: Michael Murphy, the general manager of Beyond Distribution, talks to World Screen about the strengths of the company’s catalogue, how the distribution and production sides work together and finding new opportunities in the digital space.   At the …

LOS ANGELES: Vision Films has signed an agreement with Archeos Entertainment for the funding and development of a slate of feature films to be produced in Canada by XII Tribes Entertainment. With financial support from Archaeos, Vision Films and XII …

NEW YORK: Ahead of this year’s NATPE Budapest, Anna Carugati, World Screen’s group editorial director, looks at the importance of an ongoing exchange of ideas between Europe and the U.S. There was a time when broadcasters around the world looked …

LONDON: Cineflix Rights has inked a host of sales deals for more than 120 hours of third-party content, including several titles from LMNO Productions. In Australia, Foxtel went for Hollywood & Crime, Cheating Vegas and the fourth season of Unusual …

NEW YORK: The latest edition of PwC’s Global Entertainment and Media Outlook predicts that digital entertainment and media (E&M) spend will account for more than 40 percent of all E&M spend in mature markets by 2017. The Global Entertainment and Media Outlook …