World Screen

BEIJING: China and Singapore have agreed to collaborate on theatrical feature and TV movie production across the live-action, animated and factual genres. The Film Coproduction Agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 7th China-Singapore Joint Council for Bilateral Co-operation (CSJCBC) …

PARIS: Net profit for the first half of the year at TF1 increased by 51 percent to 74 million euros, on revenues that were up by 14 percent to 1.28 billion euros. Advertising revenues at the flagship channels showed an …

LONDON: Channel 4’s rights-exploitation division has entered into a development deal with Kinetic Content, the U.S. production outfit established by former RDF USA chief Chris Coelen. 4Rights will have an exclusive first option to pick up all U.K. rights to scripted …

LONDON/ROME: Lorenzo Mieli has been tapped to lead FremantleMedia’s Italian operations as managing director. In his post at FremantleMedia Italia, Mieli reports to Monica Galer, FremantleMedia’s head of Northern and Southern Europe. He will lead FremantleMedia’s production operations and business …

MIAMI: Telemundo Internacional’s Beautiful, but Unlucky will launch in Lithuania tomorrow on LNK in a daytime slot. The novela starring Danna García and Segundo Cernadas has already rolled out in Spain, on TVE, as well as a host of Latin …

LONDON: Five’s digital channel FIVER has commissioned a new dating show, Love Bus, from Carbon Media, to be hosted by Zoe Salmon. The 10×30-minute show launches on FIVER this fall. Each week, Salmon will board a bus and pick up one …

LONDON: More than 400 half-hours of Nickelodeon content have been licensed to broadcasters in Kazakhstan, Albania and Slovenia by MTV Networks International. KTK, Kazakhstan’s leading free-to-air broadcaster, has licensed 263 half-hour episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, The Penguins of Madagascar, Danny Phantom …

LONDON: Ad-supported free movie site Indiemoviesonline.com, has inked a deal to deliver films from Lionsgate UK, beginning with an initial slate of nine titles. Titles included in the first slate are the horror features The Mummy, Halloween II and Tale …

SANTA MONICA: Endemol USA-owned 51 Minds Entertainment is producing Money Hungry, a new competitive weight-loss series, for VH1, for premiere in August. The weight-loss show with a comedic twist puts $10,000 of the contestants’ own money on the line to encourage …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON: SPE Networks Latin America has licensed the Jason Priestley comedy Call Me Fitz from Entertainment One. “We are thrilled that Fitz has found a home on SPE Networks Latin America,” said Valerie Cabrera, executive VP of eOne Television International. …