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Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky have sealed a deal with MultiChoice to relaunch the Showmax streaming brand, available across 50 markets in Africa.

The OTT streaming of TV episodes and movies in the Middle East and North Africa will generate revenues of $5.7 billion by 2028, up from $2.8 billion last year, according to Digital TV Research.

The winners of the 2023 Joburg Film Festival were announced in a ceremony on the penultimate day of the event, with the international jury naming the Egyptian feature Feathers best film.

MBC Group has appointed Christina Wayne as managing director of MBC Studios, taking over the role from Peter Smith.

All3Media International has closed a deal with African pay-TV broadcaster MultiChoice that sees its flagship channel M-Net acquire a package of over 40 hours of content.

MBC Group has extended its long-term partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery across the MENA region.

The New World TV Group (NWTV) has secured the exclusive pay-TV rights to broadcast the Emirates FA Cup exclusively in 17 countries across Western and Central Africa and non-exclusively in Chad.

The Joburg Film Festival, taking place January 31 to February 5, has unveiled the 2023 JBX Content Market and JFF Industry program.

Film AlUla in Saudi Arabia has started construction of a cutting-edge studio complex in an effort to kick-start the next phase in northwest Arabia’s emergence as a regional hub for the screen sector.

MBC Group has secured the rights to various anime series, including TV Tokyo’s Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, for its streaming platform Shahid.