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TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has secured a licensing agreement for Shadow Island Mysteries with Daro Films in Eastern Europe, English-speaking Africa and Holland. The trilogy of TV movies revolves around Claire La Foret, a beautiful young woman who works as a …

MUNICH: The Tele München Group (TMG) is producing a new screen adaptation of the literary classic Moby Dick, with RTL, ORF and RHI Entertainment as partners on the project. William Hurt takes on the role of the one-legged Captain Ahab. …

PALISADES PARK: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has signed deals on the Ghost Hunters franchise with the U.K.’s Virgin Media and OLN Network in Canada. Virgin went for 77 episodes from three series: Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International, and the …

ATLANTA: Christina Miller has been promoted to senior VP of Turner Sports’ strategy, marketing and promotions and Cartoon Network Enterprises. Miller will continue her oversight of Cartoon Network’s consumer products and home video business in the U.S., which includes global …

CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Animation has entered into a multi-year, first-look deal with Fred Seibert and his Frederator Studios to develop animated feature films. Seibert, a former president of Hanna-Barbera Productions, founded Frederator in 1998. He has produced 16 series, including …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications has extended the employment contract of its president and CEO, David Zaslav, through the beginning of 2015. "The board approached David—with more than two years before his contract was up—in order to secure his leadership, and provide the company …

NEW YORK: Several big-name advertisers, major media companies and media-planning agencies today formally unveiled the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), which will explore new ways to measure audiences in today’s wherever, whenever content landscape. CIMM’s 14 founding members are Time …

LONDON: In an e-mail to BBC staff, the pubcaster’s director-general, Mark Thompson, called James Murdoch’s recent tirade against the organization and other attacks "out of touch" with what audiences are saying, while Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, …

LONDON: The FremantleMedia dating show Take Me Out has been adapted for Japan, where it will launch on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in an 11:30 p.m. weekly time slot. Take Me Out will be the first local adaptation of an …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has closed new deals for a number of its feature films and family entertainment titles, including pickups from Disney Australia and Asia. The feature Will You Merry Me went to SBS in Belgium and ProTV of …