World Screen

TORONTO: Shaftesbury has begun production on a one-hour special for CBC Television focusing on the National Ballet of Canada’s new Romeo and Juliet performance, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky. Set for a spring 2012 broadcast in celebration of the National Ballet’s 60th …

NEW YORK: In New York ahead of the International Emmy Awards Gala on Monday, where he will receive the Directorate Award, Zee Group chairman Subhash Chandra has announced the creation of a $250 million content development fund for the U.S. health …

LOS ANGELES: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) took to Twitter to announce that Ricky Gervais is set to host the 69th annual Golden Globes, his third time taking on the presenting duties. After the 2011 event, Gervais came under …

LONDON: The four-day BBC Worldwide Showcase event is planning to incorporate a day dedicated to digital, with Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer of Netflix, and Somrat Niyogi, the CEO and co-founder of the Internet start-up Miso, confirmed as speakers. A host …

MADRID: Boomerang TV announced it will be making El tiempo entre costuras and Toledo, two epic productions, for Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 to air next year. El tiempo entre costuras, an adaptation from the novel by María Dueñas, is due …

BARCELONA: Among the animation companies based in Barcelona, Imira Entertainment, Edebé Audiovisual Licensing, Motion Pictures, BRB Internacional, Tomavistas, StorkFisk, Mago Producciones and Cromosoma were part of the event organized by ICEX for international trade press publications. The event kicked off …

NEW YORK: In this video interview, the cast of the new ABC Studios drama Missing—Ashley Judd, Cliff Curtis and Adriano Giannini—sat down with World Screen Newsflash to discuss the show and its international appeal.   Returning to television after having …

PREMIUM: Inking a broad range of licensing deals as Netflix continues its international expansion, chief content officer Ted Sarandos tells World Screen Newsflash that while bringing “Hollywood content to the world is a proven good business…I think [offering] the world’s …

SYDNEY: ABC Commercial is to supply content from Australia’s ABC News to Hewlett-Packard Australia for its web-enabled printers with HP Print Apps. The ABC News print application provides users with direct access to the latest local ABC news and headlines. It …

HONG KONG: Celestial Pictures has secured two new carriage deals for its Celestial Movies channel in Indonesia, also scoring a slot in the territory for its Celestial Classic Movies service. Celestial Movies joins PT Central Tivi’s Centrin TV platform, as well …