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LOS ANGELES, October 5: The 27th American Film Market (AFM), set for November 1 to 8, will open with a record 589 films, a 10 percent increase over last year’s 534 films, including 384 market premieres. AFM has also launched …

LONDON, October 5: Zonemedia's Zone Europa channel has acquired the exclusive basic cable rights in Poland and Hungary to a range of feature films from NBC Universal International Television Distribution. The package includes Assassins, La Haine, Highlander, Leaving Las Vegas …

MEXICO CITY/LOS ANGELES, October 5: Less than a month since picking up the format rights to La Heredera, Twentieth Television has acquired another TV Azteca novela: La Calle de las Novias (Brides’ Avenue). The show, originally featuring Silvia Navarro, Sergio …

MIAMI, October 4: Panama’s Telemetro Channel 13 will produce a local version of Televisa Estudios’ variety format Dancing for a Dream (Bailando por un Sueno) as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. In the show, eight contestants will team up …

TORONTO, October 4: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has acquired the U.S. and international distribution rights to four new films, bringing to 20 the total number of new features and television movies that the company has acquired in the last 12 …

ENGLEWOOD, October 4: A Federal Court has blocked TiVo’s injunction against EchoStar Communications Corporation that would have prevented the satellite platform from rolling out certain models of its digital video recorder to subscribers. The injunction, issued in August, stemmed from …

PARIS, October 4: Ed Galton, the executive VP of business development at Xilam, tells World Screen Newsflash about the company’s two new properties for MIPCOM: Rintindumb and Rahan, Son of the Dark Age. Rintindumb is made up of 75 1 …

MEXICO CITY, October 4: TV Azteca is standing by its decision to shut down production on the new Telemundo reality show Quinceañera at the end of last month, as part of its legal dispute with the production company Nostromo, and …

NEW YORK, October 4: Lightworks Program Distribution has lined up relationships with Daro Film Distribution, GA & A, JC Media, Peace Arch Television and Vision Plus Entertainment to complement its worldwide distribution activities on key titles like Michael Apted's Being …

STUDIO CITY, October 4: Crown Media Holdings, parent company of Hallmark Channel in the U.S., has tapped former Court TV chairman Henry Schleiff as president and CEO, succeeding David Evans, who stepped down in May. Schleiff will join Crown Media …