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EL SEGUNDO, November 8: The DIRECTV Group’s third quarter profits more than tripled to $370 million, on revenues of $3.67 billion, a 13-percent increase on the previous year. At DIRECTV U.S., revenues were up to $3.4 billion, and ARPU jumped …

LOS ANGELES, November 8: Paramount Pictures has signed a reported $10-million, four-year first-look deal with Martin Scorsese for a range of programming across all media, including feature films, TV movies and series, documentaries and digital content. The acclaimed filmmaker has …

LONDON, November 8: NTL, which today reported a £104.2 million third quarter loss, versus last year’s £53.5 million loss, is set to rebrand as Virgin Media in the first quarter of 2007. Despite the wider loss, the company did record …

REDMOND/NEW YORK, November 8: The NBC Universal Digital Studio, which develops multiplatform content, has entered into a deal to supply the web-only series A Big Life With Sissy Biggers to MSN Video. MSN Video users will have exclusive access to …

OSLO/LUXEMBOURG, November 8: SBS Broadcasting has reached a deal for its CANAL+ premium pay-TV channels to remain on the Canal Digital Nordic DTH platform until 2010. Canal Digital has also secured the rights to broadcast SBS's Nordic commercial channels—the Swedish …

ENGLEWOOD/SANTA MONICA, November 8: A range of feature film titles from Lionsgate will be made available on a VOD and pay-per-view basis on EchoStar Communications Corporation’s satellite platform, DISH Network. “Lionsgate is a great addition to both DISH On Demand …

NEW YORK, November 8: Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute is teaming with the GSM Association (GSMA), whose members serve more than 2 billion mobile phone customers across the globe, to create the Sundance Film Festival: Global Short Film Project. The pilot …

LONDON, November 8: On Demand Group (ODG) has launched CineExpress, a pay-per-view movie service, on Kabel Deutschland’s (KDG) cable network in Germany. The new service is marketed under KDG’s ‘Select KINO’ pay-per-view offering and includes the latest movies from several …

NEW YORK, November 8: Bravo has given a series order to the tentatively titled Welcome to the Parker, which goes behind the scenes at the Parker Palm Springs hotel in California. Each one-hour episode looks at the lives, relationships and …

BURBANK/SALT LAKE CITY, November 8: The Walt Disney Company’s interactive entertainment affiliate, Buena Vista Games, has launched a new development studio dedicated to creating video games specifically for Nintendo platforms. Based in Salt Lake City, Fall Line Studio’s focus is …