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BURBANK, August 9: Warner Bros. Online has announced plans to ramp up the web presence for three of its key animated brands: Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera and Scooby-Doo. "Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo and Hanna-Barbera are some of the most enduring properties in ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO, August 9: Twenty three media executives from eight Latin American countries participated in the first ever Global Media Aids Initiative Summit of Latin American Media Leaders, hosted by TV Globo in partnership with UNICEF, and supported by ...

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LOS ANGELES, August 9: The Lionsgate subsidiary Debmar-Mercury has acquired the U.S. cable and network television syndication rights for a slate of celebrity-based reality shows from 51 Minds Entertainment, including The Surreal Life and Flavor of Love. The package of ...

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LONDON, August 9: 3DD Productions, a division of the 3DD Group, has expanded into the feature film world, beginning production in London on the comedy I Really Hate My Job. Directed by Oliver Parker, the film stars Neve Campbell (Scream), ...

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BEVERLY HILLS, August 9: ROK Entertainment Group has brought its ROK TV streaming mobile TV service to the U.S. following its British rollout last year. Thirteen channels of content are available at roktv.com for 99 cents each. ROK has licensed ...

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BURBANK, August 9: Boosted in part by a $30 million net benefit associated with the completion of the Pixar acquisition, The Walt Disney Company today reported a third quarter net profit of $1.1 billion, a 39 percent gain on the ...

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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, August 9: The online asset buying spree at MTV Networks continued today with a $200-million deal to acquire Atom Entertainment, a portfolio of four leading online destinations for casual games, short films and video. Atom’s destinations include ...

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NEW YORK, August 9: Double-digit percentage increases at News Corporation’s filmed entertainment, television, cable network programming and DTH segments led the company to a full-year profit of $2.3 billion, on revenues of $25.3 billion. For the quarter, meanwhile, revenues rose ...

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LONDON, August 8: Production has begun on Five Days, a five-part crime thriller that the BBC is co-producing with HBO. Slated to air on BBC One, the limited series, penned by Gwyneth Hughes, tracks five days following the abduction of ...

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NEW DELHI, August 8: Tata Sky, the long-awaited DTH platform owned by the Indian conglomerate TATA and News Corporation’s Asian arm STAR, launched today in 300 cities across India. The venture, 80 percent owned by TATA and 20 percent by ...

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