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ENCINO: Solid Entertainment has scored a number of sales for its Emmy Award-winning series U.S. Navy SEALs. Following Osama Bin Laden’s recent death, German broadcasters ZDF, Sat.1 and ProSieben licensed footage of the series, while Denmark’s TV2 acquired two episodes. …

PREMIUM: A deep catalogue and an acquisitions strategy that operates across the film, television and digital arenas have been key factors in the success of the recently rebranded Content Media Corporation, CEO John Schmidt tells World Screen. WS: The company …

NEW YORK: Douglas A. Lee has joined EPIX as the executive VP of programming, acquisitions and enterprises for the premium entertainment network. Lee previously served as the executive VP of worldwide digital media at MGM. He was also part of …

LONDON: Zodiak Rights has firmed up a deal with agent Bomanbridge Media that sees the light-entertainment format That’s My Kid being produced for Disney Channel in India. Sol, Zodiak Media Group’s Indian production company, will produce the episodes for Disney …

MADRID: Antonio Banderas’s film company Green Moon, Vértice 360 and Quinta Communications have inked a deal to co-produce and co-finance a slate of movies, including Spanish director Gabe Ibáñez’s Automata. Banderas will co-produce and star in Automata, which explores a futuristic …

NEW YORK: IndiePix Films has picked up the distribution rights for the award-winning documentary Bhopali, which tells the story of the survivors of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters. Directed by Van Maximilian Carlson, the doc looks at the …

TORONTO: A Solutions Research Group (SRG) survey has found that ABC is the top TV brand U.S. consumers must have, narrowly beating CBS, FOX and NBC. According to the fourth edition of the Must Keep TV report, which surveyed 1,400 American …

LONDON: The entertainment formats High Stakes, Holding Out for a Hero and Born to Shine are all to be produced by ITV Studios for ITV1’s prime-time schedule. ITV1 has given the go-ahead for 12 Yard Productions’ Holding Out for a Hero. …

LOS ANGELES: Lynda La Plante has signed on with Lionsgate to develop the new one-hour drama Villains of All Nations, based on Marcus Rediker’s book about the golden age of pirates in the 17th and 18th centuries. La Plante joins …

MUNICH: The sciencetainment magazine Galileo is to debut on May 14 on Chinese free-TV channel Shanghai DocuTV and 14 other local stations, via a deal with SevenOne International. The show starts airing this weekend in China, and will hold a …