World Screen

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Digital Entertainment (MVDE) has two new movies making their U.S. premieres in the lead up to the Christmas holiday: My Dad is Scrooge and 12 Dog Days Till Christmas. Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Charles Shaugnessy (The Nanny) and Bonnie Wright (Harry Potter franchise) lend their voices to …

NEW YORK: HBO will begin offering a stand-alone OTT streaming service in the U.S. in 2015, Richard Plepler, chairman and CEO, announced at a Time Warner investor meeting today. The new service will target the 10 million broadband-only homes in the U.S., a number that is expected to rise. “That …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Digital Entertainment (MVDE) is set to debut two comedy features next month across several digital platforms. Sex Ed, starring Haley Joel Osment (Tusk) and Retta (Parks & Recreation), will debut simultaneously in theaters and on digital November 7. The film follows a new teacher as he lands …

SILVER SPRING: RLJ Entertainment has hired PBS Digital Studios co-founder Matt Graham as its VP of North American streaming service Acorn TV. Graham will start his new post October 20, taking over for Jen Linck, who is moving to RLJE’s West Coast office in the newly created position of VP …

BURBANK: Neil Patrick Harris, who can currently be seen starring opposite Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in the box-office hit Gone Girl, is set to host the 87th Oscars, which will air live on ABC on February 22, 2015. The show is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, …

LOS ANGELES/SEATTLE: The French-language TV5MONDE USA has renewed its partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival's (SIFF) French Cinema Now Festival. Under the pact, TV5MONDE USA's Cinema On Demand service will feature a number of official selections being screened at SIFF's French Cinema Now Seattle Festival, which runs from October 23 to 30. …

NEW YORK: CBS Corporation has launched a new digital SVOD and live streaming service for the CBS Television Network. Dubbed CBS All Access, the new service offers subscribers thousands of episodes from current seasons, previous seasons and classic shows on demand. It also allows users to stream local CBS Television …

LOS ANGELES: FOX has given a straight-to-series order for the comedy/horror anthology series Scream Queens, which comes from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Dante Di Loreto, executive producers of Glee and American Horror Story. The first installment centers on a college campus that is rocked by a series …

ENGLEWOOD: Turner Broadcasting has removed Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, CNN en Español, HLN, truTV and Turner Classic Movies from the DISH programming lineup. The move follows a contract dispute between the two. The companies have been unable to negotiate new terms for a renewed distribution agreement. Turner has now refused …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has secured a U.S. slot for the comedy Schitt’s Creek with the cable network POP, which is rebranding from TVGN. POP is owned by CBS Corporation and Lionsgate. It has a footprint of more than 80 million homes in the U.S. Schitt’s Creek …