Canada-based Just for Entertainment Distribution has secured two license deals of popular scripted sketch series LOL : ).  The program was sold to both Teledoce in Uruguay and to Transmedia Group in Indonesia (via partner GoQuest).

LOL 🙂 is a (…)

Italy’s public broadcaster RAI has secured a selection of series from Beta, including the French mystery thriller Homejacking, Spain’s Rapa, as well as the German crime movie cycles Murder in the Valley and Crimes (…)

All3Media International has signed a new scripted format deal in Asia, as a new local version of comedy drama Step Dave will be produced in Malaysia.

The comedy drama has been picked up by (…)

Canada’s TLN Media Group will deliver exclusive Spanish-language national coverage of the Concacaf Nations League Finals on TLN and Univision Canada, after licensing the broadcast rights to the competition from (…)

An annual report from the European Audiovisual Observatory and the European Film Agency Research Network provides updated figures on how European theatrical fiction films are being financed, based on the (…)

Hollywood-based Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the holding company of Village Roadshow Pictures and Village Roadshow Television, and its majority owner is private (…)

GMA Network chairman Atty. Felipe L. Gozon was bestowed the Communicator of the Year Award in the Executive Leader category by the International Association of Business Communicators Asia Pacific.

The Award (…)

Torfinnur Jákupsson, the creator behind Faroese drama series Trom, has launched Red Herring Story, a new London-based development company. A U.K. affiliate of GRÓ Studios, the first Faroese film and television (…)

The Voice of America (VoA) radio service, which the U.S. established in 1942 with a mandate to combat Nazi and Japanese — and later Soviet — propaganda, was despised by (…)

Blink49 Studios has acquired Canadian prodco Pier21 Films. The deal includes Pier21’s current productions, its content library, and projects in active development.

Founded in 2011 by industry veteran Laszlo Barna and (…)