MarVista Announces Pre-NATPE Deals

LOS ANGELES, January 13: HBO Central Europe and Turner Networks in Asia are among the broadcast outlets that have signed on for content from MarVista Entertainment in the run-up to NATPE.

A hundred episodes of the half-hour tween reality program Prank Patrol were licensed to Turner in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal and the Philippines. HBO Central Europe, meanwhile, opted for the comedy feature Man Maid. Also in the region, Viasat acquired a package of films, including Cop Dog, for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Slovenia. Lastly, MarVista has licensed its animated feature The Zula Patrol: Animal Adventures in Space: The Movie to TRT in Turkey.

"Each of these titles has received strong interest from the market and we’re thrilled to announce these deals," said Fernando Szew, the CEO and founding partner at MarVista. "We take great pride in providing the international marketplace with a breadth of quality content and the licensing agreements we’ve entered into with these four very strong platforms guarantee our product is reaching the broadest audience possible throughout the world."

—By Mansha Daswani