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SAN FRANCISCO, January 11: VIZ Media has licensed from Nippon Television Network the download-to-own and download-to-rent rights for the U.S. to the Death Note anime series. The deal marks the first time a well known Japanese anime property will be …

LONDON, January 12: BKN International has sealed a broadcast deal with Télé-Québec for several CGI high-definition animated features, and has licensed a number of titles to Toronto-based Morningstar Entertainment for DVD distribution in Canada. BKN’s contract with Morningstar Entertainment grants …

SANTA BARBARA, January 11: Foothill Entertainment has landed the worldwide television and international home entertainment distribution rights to the straight-to-DVD release Hip-Hop Kidz: It’s a Beautiful Thing, the first in a series. Hip-Hop Kidz: It’s a Beautiful Thing is executive …

HOLLYWOOD, January 11: International Broadcast Communications (IBC) has sold the celebrity profile series Famous into Germany, marking the company’s first deal in that market. Famous was licensed to Star! Entertainment Factory, a joint venture with VCL, MME, CHUM and other …

TORONTO, January 11: Canadian broadcaster Rogers OMNI Television will exclusively fund The M Word, a controversial new documentary from Third Element Productions exploring Canada’s Multiculturalism Policy. The M Word examines the place of the Multiculturalism Policy in Canadian society and …

BURBANK, January 10: Warner Home Video has unveiled its “Total Hi Def” disc, which plays the HD DVD format on one side and the Blu-ray Disc format on the other. The disc was presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in …

LAS VEGAS, January 10: Among the highlights of the NATPE conference slate are two sessions to be moderated by Anna Carugati, the group editorial director of World Screen: one on telenovelas around the world, and the other, produced with the …

LOS ANGELES, January 10: Twentieth Television is working with FremantleMedia North America on Temptation, a half-hour game show strip for the U.S. syndication market based on the format Sale of the Century. The show has been cleared for a fall …

TORONTO, January 10: Driven by gains in its broadcasting division, Corus Entertainment has posted a 7-percent rise in revenues, to C$209.2 million, and a 17 percent increase in net profit to C$36.7 million. "The positive momentum of last year has …

LOS ANGELES, January 10: Twentieth Century Fox has inked a deal with Israeli cable platform HOT to make both new releases and classic library films available to subscribers on an on-demand basis. This is Fox’s first video on demand deal …