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MUNICH: Global Screen has secured a deal with U.S. distributor Music Box Films for the horror comedy Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal as well as the crime thriller The Silence. The U.S. indie distributor picked up Eddie, a Canadian-Danish production written and directed by Boris Rodriguez. Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights …

AMSTERDAM: FOX International Channels (FIC) has purchased a 51-percent stake in Eredivisie Media & Marketing (EMM), which is backed by the Dutch Premier League (Eredivisie) football clubs and Endemol. EMM handles the corporate media and sponsorship rights for Eredivisie and also controls the football channel Eredivisie Live. In the Netherlands, …

LONDON: BSkyB has won an appeal against Ofcom’s previous regulatory ruling that forced it to reduce the price for its main sports channels to competitors. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled that the regulator’s concerns over the way Sky’s sports channels were being sold were "unfounded." The spat started in …

DÜESSELDORF: The Higher Regional Court of Düesseldorf has ruled against ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL’s plan to launch an online video platform, upholding a previous verdict by the German antitrust authority. The Federal Cartel Office ruled in March 2011 against the two companies jointly launching an online video platform, saying that the …

PARIS: Robert Kyncl, the global head of content at Google/YouTube, has been tapped to deliver a Media Mastermind keynote on Monday, October 8, at MIPCOM. Kyncl will be discussing the future of media, entertainment and video content. He will look at the ways in which online content pushes traditional boundaries …

MUNICH: The German VOD platform maxdome has scored a multi-year licensing agreement with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution that covers a selection of new releases and movie classics. The ProSiebenSat.1 Media-owned VOD platform has the VOD rights in Germany for feature films such as American Gangster, The Fast and the Furious, Notting …

LONDON: Argonon’s Remedy Productions has added Tom Blakeson and Suzanne Gilfillan to its management team. The company named Tom Blakeson as its new chief creative officer, effective in September. He will report to Juliet Borges, Remedy’s joint managing director, and he will be expected to help the company grow into the …

LONDON: YouView customers can now access Sky’s streaming movie service NOW TV through a new app launched on the IPTV platform. NOW TV launched last month in the U.K. across computers, iPhones, iPads and select Android devices. The service provides Internet-delivered access to Sky Movies content. Customers who have already …

LONDON: BBC One has ordered the pilot for Father Figure, a sitcom based on the BBC Radio 2 comedy series. Comedian Jason Byrne is the creator, writer and star of the Father Figure, which follows the life of Tom, a father of two sons. Pauline McLynn (Father Ted), Michael Smiley (Luther) …

LONDON: The U.K. VOD provider Blinkbox has signed a deal with HBO for the electronic sell-through rights to a range of content, including the second seasons of Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire. Blinkbox can now offer U.K. consumers HBO programming to download on PCs as well as stream on …