World Screen

TORONTO: All subsidiaries of DHX Media, including DECODE Entertainment and DECODE Enterprises, are being rebranded under one single label, effective today. Production units DECODE Entertainment, Halifax Film, Studio B Productions; distribution division DECODE Enterprises; consumer-products department DHX Licensing and DHX …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC is to offer holiday-themed original animated half-hour specials from DreamWorks Animation, based on the hit movies Shrek and Kung Fu Panda. Scared Shrekless will feature the green ogre and all of his friends from the blockbuster feature-film franchise. …

HONG KONG: Fox International Channels (FIC) has added Fox Family Movies to its bouquet, launching on September 16 in Singapore. The channel offers family members of all ages a range of new and classic movies from studios including Fox, Disney, …

NEW YORK: TV Kids has relaunched its online destination TVKids.ws as a stand-alone, state-of-the-art website dedicated exclusively to news, video, features, interviews and profiles about the children’s content and licensing business. To visit the new TVKids.ws, please click here. TVKids.ws …

At the end of 2008, Scripps Networks Interactive tapped Greg Moyer, a veteran of the international channels landscape, to take its global business in a new direction. As president of Scripps Networks International, Moyer quickly put in place a strategy …

In the seven years since it was established, MarVista Entertainment has evolved from simply selling third-party programming to producing and distributing a wide variety of genres. Known as a leading supplier of TV movies and family fare, MarVista has built …

Just five years ago, Sprout launched in the U.S. in some 13 million homes with a slate of preschool shows and a single block, The Good Night Show. Today, the service is in more than 50 million households and is …

MONTEREY: SNL Kagan data indicates that the U.S. ad market is recovering, with revenues expected to rebound by 2.8 percent to $210.5 billion this year. This year’s gains will follow two consecutive years of ad revenue declines in the U.S. Mobile, …

TORONTO: Portfolio Entertainment has hired Louis Fournier as its new VP of sales and acquisitions, a newly created role. Fournier will set the multiplatform sales direction for the distribution arm Portfolio International, along with expanding the company’s acquired international distribution …

LOS ANGELES: Ahead of its one-year anniversary, Opus Distribution has notched up a number of deals around the world on its inaugural slate. Next Stop Murder, premiering on Lifetime Movie Network, has been sold to M6 in France, Dall’Angelo for …