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CANNES: The slate of TV movies from Starz Worldwide Distribution spans genres such as action and disaster, thrillers and holiday films, with highlights that include Destruction: Los Angeles, A Christmas Broadcast and My Summer Prince.

CANNES: The single-camera comedy Graves, which Lionsgate Entertainment is presenting for buyers, stars Nick Nolte as a former two-term U.S. president who embarks on a quest to right the wrongs of his administration.

CANNES: The comedic unscripted series Fail Army, which is packed with bloopers, and Now That’s Funny, featuring viral videos, are two of the titles that dick clark productions (DCP) international will be speaking to buyers about at the market.

CANNES: The latest projects in the Miramax catalog feature “stars and stories that resonate with audiences worldwide,” says Joe Patrick, the company’s executive VP of worldwide television sales and home entertainment.

CANNES: The Multicom Entertainment Group catalog is home to Larry King Now, featuring the iconic host as he interviews athletes, entrepreneurs, celebrities, world leaders and musicians.

CANNES: The Pure Flix movie Encounter has inspired a new 10x30-minute series of the same name.

LOS ANGELES: Participant Media has acquired the digital entertainment media company SoulPancake, which was founded by actor Rainn Wilson (The Office, Six Feet Under) in 2009.

CANNES: Family features are at the core of MarVista Entertainment’s MIPCOM offering.

An increasing number of U.S. audiences are opting to subscribe to more than one SVOD service, GfK research indicates, with that number rising from 10 percent of the viewing population to 16 percent in three years. The data was released in a new report from GfK’s The Home Technology Monitor, which describes these subs as “self-bundling” viewers, paying for combinations of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other streaming services.

NEW YORK: ProSiebenSat.1, one of Europe’s largest broadcasters, recently launched six new channel apps using Applicaster’s app publishing platform, Zapp.