EM.Entertainment Secures Programming Deals in France, Eastern Europe

January 22, 2007 World Screen

UNTERFÖHRING, January 22: EM.Entertainment has licensed a
package of titles to Canal J in France and has secured a home entertainment
deal in Eastern Europe.

In December 2006, Canal J secured the exclusive exploitation
rights for the cartoon series Blinky Bill, the
2-D animated movie Pippi Longstocking and the live-action movies Air Bud I and II for broadcast in France, Monaco, Andorra and the
French overseas territories.

EM.Entertainment has also granted the DVD and home video
rights to 432 half-hours of content to Hungarian distributor InterDomino. The
three-year contract includes new productions such as Staines Down Drains and Deadly! as well as classics such as Pippi Longstocking, Heidi and Lassie, for Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

In addition, the Eastern European channel Minimax has also
purchased free-TV rights to Arthur, Little Bear, Fix & Fox and Urmel for
broadcast in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro.