{"id":6994,"date":"2016-11-21T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bopaul-secures-north-american-deal-for-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:03:40","slug":"north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/","title":{"rendered":"North American Digital Deal for Classic Mussolini Miniseries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: The Sprocket Vault has acquired home video and VOD distribution rights in North America for the historical miniseries <em>Mussolini: The Untold Story<\/em> from BoPaul Media Worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona-based distribution company recently formed by Kit Parker, the president of Kit Parker Films, plans to roll out the miniseries in late January 2017. <em>Mussolini: The Untold Story<\/em> originally aired on NBC in November 1985 and stars George C. Scott and Robert Downey, Jr. The Sprocket Vault is re-mastering the seven-hour series in HD, and it will be available on DVD exclusively through Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>BoPaul Media Worldwide was selected as the international distributor by the estate of late TV producer Raymond Katz for all media. The miniseries is a Katz\/Gallin production in association with Bernard Sofronski. It is based on a story written by one of Benito Mussolini\u2019s sons, and the script was penned by Sterling Silliphant (<em>In the Heat of the Night<\/em>). It has not been seen on foreign television for the past three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Rush, representative of the Katz Estate and former CEO of the Columbia Pictures Television Group, said, &#8220;The Katz family eagerly anticipates a renewed North American and international audience interest in one of Raymond Katz\u2019s finest contributions to television.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: The Sprocket Vault has acquired home video and VOD distribution rights in North America for the historical miniseries Mussolini: The Untold Story from BoPaul Media Worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1507,1508,1509],"class_list":["post-6994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-bopaul-media-worldwide","tag-mussolini-the-untold-story","tag-the-sprocket-vault","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>North American Digital Deal for Classic Mussolini Miniseries - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North American Digital Deal for Classic Mussolini Miniseries - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LOS ANGELES: The Sprocket Vault has acquired home video and VOD distribution rights in North America for the historical miniseries Mussolini: The Untold Story from BoPaul Media Worldwide.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-21T14:24:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-11-21T15:03:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/\",\"name\":\"North American Digital Deal for Classic Mussolini Miniseries - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-21T14:24:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-21T15:03:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/north-american-digital-deal-classic-mussolini-miniseries\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"North American Digital Deal for Classic Mussolini Miniseries\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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