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CANNES, April 18: Following a slew of recent sales for its show Lola & Virginia, Spain’s Icon Animation has closed a new deal for the girl-skewing series with TV2 Norway. “We are very happy to work with TV2 to bring …

CANNES, April 18: Italy’s Atlantyca Entertainment is working with Canada’s 9 Story Entertainment and France’s MoonScoop Productions to develop and co-produce a new animated series based on the award-winning Geronimo Stilton book series for kids. The property will be developed …

NEW YORK, April 18: American Greetings Properties has partnered with Mike Young Productions and DQ Entertainment to create a new CGI animation television series for the Twisted Whiskers property. The new 26×30-minute show will be distributed to broadcasters by Taffy …

NEW YORK, April 18: GE Media, Communications & Entertainment, a unit of GE Commercial Finance, and NBC Universal have launched a $250 million equity fund to invest in media and technology companies with high growth potential. The fund will focus …

HONG KONG, April 18: Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has restructured its sales division with promotions for Amit Malhotra, Mark Chan and Ramez Sheikh. Amit Malhotra has been assigned the role of regional director of sales, pan-Asia, India and …

PARIS, April 18: Almost a decade since the last editions of MIP Asia and MIDEM Asia, Reed MIDEM announced today that it is planning a new event in the region: AMAZIA, a pan-Asia Pacific exhibition and conference devoted to the …

CANNES, April 18: Acclaimed director Spike Lee was on hand at the Babelgum launch here in Cannes yesterday, where the company’s founders previewed their new platform, which looks to deliver niche, broadcast-quality content over the Internet. The new peer-to-peer based …

MUNICH, April 18: ProSiebenSat.1 Group has reached a deal with CBS Paramount International Television to offer a slate of dramas, including NCIS and Medium, on its maxdome video-on-demand portal prior to their linear TV broadcast. The agreement covers the current …

NEW YORK, April 18: At its “First Look” event for advertisers, AOL showcased new programming alliances with Mark Burnett, DreamWorks Animation, Endemol, Madison Road Entertainment, Stone & Co and Telepictures for content that is slated to roll out on the …

CARLSBAD, April 18: Entriq has been commissioned to provide digital rights management solutions to RTL for its new online video-on-demand service. The newly launched RTL NOW! offers viewers in Germany the chance to watch such shows as Deutschland sucht den …