Mansha Daswani

NEW YORK: Steve Macallister, the CEO of all3media international, tells World Screen Newsflash about how he is positioning the company for further global expansion in 2016.

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Entertainment One (eOne) and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (Fox) have signed a multi-territory home-entertainment deal and are launching a new joint venture in Canada.

PwC is projecting that 2016 will see “robust” merger and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the U.S. entertainment, media and communications (EMC) sector, driven by companies’ need to build presence, scale and digital value chains. According to PwC’s US Entertainment, Media & Communications Deal Insights report, U.S. deal value in 2015 was $149 billion, a 13-percent increase on the year-ago period. Deal volume was down 7 percent to 818. Q4 was one of the slowest M&A quarters in recent history, PwC said.

The CEO talks about the company’s strategy for further expanding its presence in the worldwide drama business.

NEW YORK: After five years of expanding the AMC and Sundance Channel brands across the globe, Bruce Tuchman is stepping down from his post at AMC Networks this spring.

Interviewed by World Screen’s Anna Carugati for the international keynote at NATPE, Endemol Shine Group CEO Sophie Turner Laing discussed the power of the company’s production and distribution network, maintaining “superbrands” like Big Brother and MasterChef and exploring how nonscripted entertainment evolves in the digital age.

MIAMI: In a panel discussion moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati, executives from Zodiak Media, Modern Times Group, Keshet International and Z Living discussed how each of their companies have adapted to shifts in viewing trends.

LONDON: After almost eight years at ITV, Peter Fincham is exiting his post as director of television, to be succeeded by Kevin Lygo.

Michael Grindon, the former head of international at Sony Pictures Television, tells World Screen about Legendary’s TV slate and about managing rights in the complex drama-distribution business today.

ATLANTA: Cartoon Network and the Lego Group have partnered for a new series, LEGO NEXO Knights. Debuting today at 5:30 p.m., the adventure/comedy will air on Cartoon Network globally in the weeks to come. The series is set in the …