MBC Group has secured the rights to various anime series, including TV Tokyo’s Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, for its streaming platform Shahid.
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MBC Group has signed a five-year agreement with Turkish production houses Medyapim and Ay Yapim for a first-look at their titles and to co-develop and commission Arabic-language productions.
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SPI/FilmBox’s esports channel Gametoon and drama hub Dizi have launched in the Middle East via evision’s eLife TV, as well as through Switch TV and Mobily TV.
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Netflix has ramped up its investment in stories from African creators with a new slate of African originals and a multi-project partnership with South African filmmaker Mandlakayise Walter Dube.
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Netflix has partnered with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, which will provide a one-time grant of $250,000 to be distributed by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity, in order to promote telling stories about and by women in the Arab world.
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VIS Social Impact, the cause-driven production division of Paramount’s VIS, has launched its inaugural writers’ room, Beyond the Binary: Fluid Voices, with Paramount Africa.
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