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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 …

LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) is heading to the Licensing International Expo 2011 in Las Vegas, focusing on products for key brands such as The X Factor, Idols, Got Talent and Rebecca Bonbon, along with kids’ properties. The international success of these …

MUNICH: Herbert Kloiber’s Tele München Group says it achieved record revenues in 2010, with an operating EBITDA of $113.2 million. TMG’s revenues rose to $466.37 million from $430.61 million. The company also reported that the CinemaxX, theater chain, in which Kloiber …

NEEDHAM: Echo Bridge Entertainment has entered into an exclusive sales agreement with Active Entertainment and producer Ken Badish to internationally distribute a slate of three sci-fi disaster films, including Ice Comets and Arachnoquake. Ice Comets is about a highly concentrated piece …