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LOS ANGELES, August 20: American Cinema International and Cinevision International have teamed up to acquire and distribute Latin-themed product to the U.S. home entertainment marketplace. The partnership has already secured deals with Navarre/BCI and Image Entertainment to distribute a minimum …

SYDNEY, August 20: The prime-time premiere of Southern Star’s Crime Investigation Australia on August 14 on Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network captured a 34-percent average all-audience market share against the U.S. drama Numb3rs and the British series Life Begins. The …

NEW JERSEY, August 20: Alfred Haber Distribution has secured deals for the new weekly series Hollywood Uncensored, to be carried this fall on Five, Seven Network, Denmark’s TV2, Norway’s TV3, Kanal Fem in Sweden and MBC in the Middle East. …

HARRINGTON PARK, August 20: Cary Grant: The Leading Man, the fourth title released from Janson Media’s Hollywood Collection, is now available for all television, home-entertainment and new-media markets worldwide. Narrated by Richard Kiley, Cary Grant: The Leading Man was originally …

SYDNEY, August 20: Courtney Gibson, currently the head of arts, entertainment and comedy at ABC TV in Australia, has been appointed the network’s executive head of content creation, effective November 5. In this newly created position, Gibson will lead and …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, August 20: SDI Media Group, an international provider of foreign-language subtitling and dubbing services, has named Roger Flynn to the new role of president of international for Europe and Asia. Flynn will oversee SDI’s expanding businesses in Europe, …

BURBANK, August 20: The Friday prime-time premiere of High School Musical 2, executive produced by Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, attracted 17.2 million viewers, ranking as the most-watched basic cable telecast in history. High School Musical 2, which premiered on …

LOS ANGELES, August 20: Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have announced that they will exclusively support the HD DVD format instead of Sony’s Blu-ray technology. The exclusive HD DVD commitment will include all movies distributed by Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, …

BASKING RIDGE/LOS ANGELES, August 20: Verizon Wireless and CBS Mobile have teamed to offer full-length commercial-free episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to subscribers of Verizon’s V CAST Video service, …

LONDON, August 20: Endemol UK has secured a 25-percent stake in digital entertainment producer and distributor MoMedia International. As part of the investment, Peter Cowley, the managing director of digital media at Endemol UK, has joined the board of MoMedia …