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LOS ANGELES: The newest member appointed to PorchLight Entertainment’s board of directors is Rick Eldridge, the president and CEO of the post-production outfit The Film Foundry. “With over 30 years in the entertainment business as a musician, producer, director and …

SAN FRANCISCO: The Brazilian terrestrial broadcaster SBT has signed up for a 51-episode second season of VIZ Media’s anime series Naruto. The series, which follows a young boy in training to become a ninja, had a first season of 52 …

LOS ANGELES: NATPE has confirmed the changes to its exhibitor setup for 2010, with at least four more floors of suites available at THEhotel and the nixing of the convention hall show floor in favor of using ballrooms at the Mandalay …

LONDON: All3Media International and BBC Worldwide are among the some 100 businesses that received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade this year, recognizing substantial growth in a company’s international earnings and commercial success. BBC Worldwide demonstrated a 33-percent increase in overseas revenues …

LONDON/LOS ANGELES: Peace Arch Entertainment Group and ContentFilm have restructured their North American home-entertainment business, which is led by Berry Meyerowitz, transferring a majority interest in the venture to Meyerowitz’s new outfit, Phase 4 Films. Peace Arch has sold all …

NEW YORK: Continuing its growth strategy for this year, TV Latina, World Screen‘s market-leading Latin American media industry publication, has promoted Rafael Blanco to executive editor. Blanco contributes to all of World Screen‘s Spanish-language print publications—with the flagship TV Latina, plus TV Niños and TV Formatos—as …

NEW YORK: The first three seasons of American Gangster, a new series from BET that spotlights notorious criminals, have been acquired by AETN International, which now holds the worldwide sales rights and will air the program on its Crime & …

LOS ANGELES: Robin Schwartz is stepping down as the president of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the cable channel that is slated to launch early next year. First hired as programming chief last year, Schwartz helped set up the channel’s Los …

EL SEGUNDO: DIRECTV’s The 101 Network has added the HBO dramas Deadwood and OZ to its Sunday night lineup, airing them commercial free beginning May 21. The shows were previously only available to HBO subscribers. Deadwood centers on the lives …

CHATSWORTH: The U.S. rights to the British crime film The Crew have been taken on by Image Entertainment. Image now holds rights for the film across theatrical, broadcast, home video and digital. The Crew follows respected crime boss Ged Brennan, …