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TORONTO/SYDNEY: Entertainment One (eOne) has scored a slew of new sales for the psychological drama The Hunter, which stars Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Francis O’Connor. The movie, produced by Vincent Sheehan of Porchlight Films, has been sold to the …

LONDON: Zodiak Rights has re-upped its first-look development deal with Firecracker Films, the producers of the hit series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, for another three years. As part of the renewal, Zodiak has the rights for season two of Big …

BUENOS AIRES: Telefe International has secured an agreement with Nanuk Producciones for the exclusive international distribution and sale of its entertainment formats. Nanuk was founded ten years ago under the supervision of Argentine host and producer Alejandro "Marley" Wiebe. The …

NEW YORK: Videofashion has expanded the format of its Videofashion Daily programs to cover 365 new half-hour HD shows per year starting January 2012. Videofashion News launched 35 years ago; in 1980 it became a quarterly; in 1995 a monthly. Now, …

VANCOUVER: Force Four Entertainment and DRG have entered into a first-look agreement that covers the Canadian outfit’s upcoming original factual slate. Force Four reality series The Cupcake Girls has been sold into more than 90 countries. The feature doc 65_RedRoses …

MIAMI/TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group has scored a format deal for Date Blind (Ciega a Citas) with CBS Television Studios, which will develop the series for The CW. Krista Vernoff, the former executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy, will adapt the …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channels International has acquired National Geographic Television International’s (NGTI) sales and distribution operations and content library, amounting to more than 1,000 hours of programming. The move allows NGCI to have greater control over the windowing strategies …

PREMIUM: Andreas Bartl, the chief German TV officer at ProSiebenSat.1 Media, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the power of linear channels, the success of the online VOD platform maxdome and the company’s relationship with the Hollywood studios. ProSiebenSat.1 Media’s …

PREMIUM: Matthew Blank, the chairman and CEO of Showtime Networks, tells World Screen Newsflash he welcomes the opportunities that Netflix and other digital platforms offer, as long as they remain distribution outlets and don’t become competitors in original programming. A …

NEW YORK: World Screen’s editors provide a snapshot of what you’ll find in our ambitious MIPCOM edition, which, at 610 pages, is our biggest and most successful issue in our 26-year history. Every year in early May, World Screen’s editorial …