PorchLight Entertainment Presents $50 Million MIPTV Slate

LOS ANGELES, April 9: PorchLight
Entertainment will unveil a slate of over $50 million-worth of new programming
at MIPTV, including The Ultimate Gift, a
theatrical family drama that was recently released by FOX Faith in U.S.
theaters and stars Academy-Award nominee Abigail Breslin.

Headlining the company’s movie
offerings is The Ultimate Gift, which
was recently released by FOX Faith in 816 U.S. theaters and stars James Garner, Abigail Breslin, Brian
Dennehy and Drew Fuller. Other movies include Rain, based on the V.C. Andrews novel and
starring Faye Dunaway and Robert Loggia; Rhythm
of Life starring Phillip Vaden, Julie Hagerty and Stephen
Tobolowsky; White Air,
the extreme sports drama, starring Riley Smith, Dominique Swain and Tom
Sizemore; the family comedy The
Holiday Caper, starring David Coulier and Christina Pickles; and
three thrillers: Cheating Fate
starring Brooke Burns; Her Sisters
Keeper starring Dahlia Salem and Meghan Ory; and Silent Witness starring Kelly
Rutherford.

PorchLight’s MIPTV slate
features three animated series: FARMkids, My Goldfish Is Evil! and The Adventures of Massey Ferguson; new 26×30-minute episodes of the live-action/CGI
series Monster Warriors, bringing
the total number to 52 episodes; and two animated specials: Holidaze:
The Christmas That Almost Didn’t Happen and
A Tad of Christmas Cheer,
the first holiday special starring the popular Leapfrog characters.

The company’s recently launched
Non-Fiction and Music Division is bringing two theatrical documentary movies, Darkon and Crude Impact, and three series, Forever Wild, Travel
with Kids and the Splash of
Color.

“We are committed to bringing
to each major sales market an exciting slate of new programs and films to meet
the requirements of leading networks, broadcasters and distributors worldwide,”
said William Baumann, the COO of PorchLight. “This outstanding portfolio of new
programming is the best slate we have ever presented at MIPTV and is the result
of our stepped-up acquisition activities over the past months.”