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BURBANK, October 25: Beginning this Saturday, October 22, Disney Channel will debut High School Musical: The Music In You, an unscripted short-form series of 12 interstitials following a student theatre company in Fort Worth, Texas, as they learn to express …

LONDON, October 25: HIT Entertainment has licensed its popular preschool property Fireman Sam to Five and Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoonito in the U.K., for broadcast in spring 2008. Five has licensed the first five seasons and a 20-minute special of Fireman …

HONG KONG, October 25: Sony Pictures Television International’s youth-skewing anime channel Animax will roll out its new monthly subscription-based mobile service Animax Mobile in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Animax Mobile has already debuted to consumers in Hong Kong through the …

LONDON, October 25: Topping FremantleMedia Enterprises’s (FME) slate for the AFM this year is the film Fanny Hill, based on John Cleland’s novel Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and adapted by award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies. Produced by …

TORONTO, October 25: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has inked a deal for the exclusive Canadian distribution rights to two movies from filmmaker Uwe Boll: In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and Postal, for both theatrical and …

LONDON, October 25: Parthenon Kids, the children’s division of Parthenon Entertainment, has optioned the rights to Rescue Rookies, an animated preschool property from British production company Bada Bling. Parthenon has the exclusive rights to further develop the series and pitch …

TOKYO, October 25: Sony Corporation posted a second-quarter profit of Y73.7 billion ($641 million), almost 4,300 percent up on Q2 2006’s Y1.7 billion ($14.9 million), with revenues up 12 percent to Y2.1 trillion ($18.1 billion). At Sony Pictures Entertainment, higher …

HILVERSUM/NAARDEN, October 25: Telescreen will work with entertainment holding company WMG Beheer on the development and production of new children’s animation properties that are intended for delivery and broadcast in fall 2008. The new partnership with kick off with Western …

PHILADELPHIA, October 25: Despite a 21-percent increase in third quarter profits to $7.8 billion, Comcast Corporation’s profit for the period fell 54 percent to $560 million. The fall in profit is partly attributed to a $55 million expense related to …

MUMBAI/BURBANK, October 25: Mahesh Samat has been appointed as the managing director of The Walt Disney Company (India), coordinating all of its efforts in the key Asian market. Based in Mumbai and reporting to Andy Bird, the president of Walt …