World Screen

LOS ANGELES: More than 100 hours of reality programming from the catalogue of Rive Gauche Television have been licensed to international broadcasters. The deals include Pitbulls and Parolees, which has been picked up by Discovery Latin America and UBC in …

PARIS: Moonscoop has sold the shows Zevo-3, Gasp!, The DaVincibles and Tara Duncan to MBC3 in the Middle East. Zevo-3 is an animated action-comedy being produced by Moonscoop for Skechers Entertainment. Gasp! is an animated comedy produced by SLR Productions, …

MUNICH: Fox International Channels (FIC) has named Mirjam Laux as the VP and managing director of Fox Channels Germany. Laux will be responsible for all key areas of the pay-TV channels business, including affiliate sales, ad sales, programming, productions, marketing …

TORONTO: CCI Entertainment has signed a new deal with Discovery Kids Latin America for two localized versions of the art series Artzooka!, one in Spanish and the other in Portuguese. Both series are set to launch November 22. The Brazilian/Portuguese …

NEW YORK: 4Kids Entertainment has picked up the global theatrical, TV and home-entertainment rights, excluding Asia, for Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time, an animated film coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the hit franchise. Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time features …

TORONTO: My Babysitter’s a Vampire is TELETOON’s first-ever original live-action feature, slated to make its debut on October 9 at 7 p.m. The family friendly live-action film features computer-generated visual effects and animation. The movie follows a 14-year-old boy, who, …

NEW YORK: Veria TV’s new reality series Sports Dads will take a look into the lives of young children who are being groomed from an early age to become professional athletes, with Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders as the host. …

MAINZ: Leading off ZDF Enterprises’ (ZDFE) MIPCOM slate is a number of children’s and youth programs, including a second season of The Elephant Princess, co-produced with Jonathan M. Shiff. There’s also the preschool series Laura’s Star, back for a third …

  NEW YORK: Emilio Azcárraga, the chairman and CEO of Grupo Televisa, and Jon Feltheimer, Lionsgate’s co-chairman and CEO, talk about Pantelion, the new joint-venture company that targets Hispanic moviegoers in the U.S.

PARIS: Among the talent heading to Cannes is actor, producer and director Robert Redford. Redford is the founder of Sundance Channel, and will participate in a media Q&A session on Wednesday, October 6. Also on hand will be Gene Simmons, …