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CULVER CITY, July 27: Dolphin Entertainment, a producer of live-action content for kids and young adults, has granted the worldwide DVD rights to six films produced for Nickelodeon to Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group. The titles will be released by …

MARINA DEL REY, July 27: CinemaNow, a destination for downloadable movies, TV shows and music videos, has shored up licensing deals with Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI and Sanctuary Records. Beginning in late August, over 6,000 music videos from Sony …

MONTREAL, July 27: Production has begun on Mistaken, a new TV movie from Canada’s Incendo Productions and the U.K.’s Power for TMN: The Movie Network, Movie Central and Super Ecran in Canada, and Lifetime in the U.S. Mistaken’s North American …

MONTREAL, July 27: Muse Entertainment has begun principal photography on a contemporary take on the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which will be represented internationally by RHI Entertainment. Starring Dougray Scott of Desperate Housewives and Mission Impossible II, Tom …

NEW YORK, July 26: Disney Channel’s High School Musical 2 will be made available on Verizon’s FiOS TV's video on demand library prior its worldwide premiere on August 17. Verizon also will launch a public sweepstakes in the Kids area …

SINGAPORE, July 26: Asian content management company Six-Six-Eight (6-6-8) and preschool channel provider Zebra TV Channels have launched Luli, the 24/7 channel targeted at babies, in Singapore on SingTel’s new pay-TV platform MioTV. Luli is aimed at babies from a …

TOKYO, July 26: At Sony Corporation, profit for the first quarter doubled to $540 million, on revenues of $16.1 billion, a 13.3 percent rise on Q1 2006, driven in part by strong sales of the company’s digital cameras, as well …

LONDON, July 26: In a two-year distribution deal, Belgian public broadcaster VRT will have an exclusive first look at Channel 4 International’s programming catalogue, and has agreed to acquire a minimum of 45 hours of programming each year for representation …

WASHINGTON, July 26: According to the results of a survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the use of online video continues to proliferate through social networking features, with 57 percent of online video viewers sharing links with …

NEW YORK, July 26: KPI, a unit of Lightworks Producing Group (LPG), has been granted exclusive television access to document the newly discovered sunken Roman forts of Meols, on the north Wirral Coast off England, with diver and deep sea …