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SPE completes 2waytraffic acquisition
Sellers' Forum, 5 June 2008

London – Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) announced today that it has successfully acquired control of the Dutch entertainment company, 2waytraffic. The acquisition gives SPE new capabilities in the global light entertainment market, which includes games, variety and reality shows, [...]

Disney-ABC’s Army Wives march into Asia
Sellers' Forum, 29 May 2008

Hong Kong – Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific), the international TV distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company, has announced licensing deals for Army Wives with 6 broadcasters including the pan-regional Hallmark Channel, Australia’s Network Ten, Fiji TV, Zee Cafe [...]

AMAZIA set for axe
Sellers' Forum, 23 May 2008

Speculation is mounting that REED MIDEM's cross-platform content show AMAZIA is to be cancelled. Scheduled for 17-20 November 2008, at the HKCEC in Hong Kong, many exhibitors were confused at AMAZIA's timing so soon after MIPCOM, just before the CASBAA Conference, and in apparent [...]

The Weinstein Company and STAR ink output deal
Sellers' Forum, 20 May 2008

Cannes, France & Hong Kong –The Weinstein Company has signed an exclusive five year pan Asia pay-TV output deal with STAR. STAR movies has picked up titles including 1408, Sicko, Rob Zombie’s Halloween, The Reader, Crossing Over and Superhero Movie. Announcement furthers [...]

MediaCorp’s Caldecott Productions International ramps up HD production
Sellers' Forum, 9 April 2008

Singapore/Cannes – MediaCorp’s HD division, Caldecott Productions International is ramping up HD content production – targeting 60 hours this year and 100 hours the next. Managing director Ong Hee Yah told Television Asia Plus that the subsequent years will see a “steady stream [...]

KBS wraps US$4.5million sales at MIPTV
Sellers' Forum, 9 April 2008

Cannes – By the end of this year’s MIPTV market, KBS will have secured US$4.5million in sales, according to Oh Suk Kwon, head of global strategy at KBS. Kwon told Television Asia Plus that over US$3million of KBS’ trademark epic dramas have been sold to Pony Canyon Japan. By the [...]

The Weinstein Company launches int’l TV distrib unit
Sellers' Forum, 7 April 2008

New York/ Cannes - The Weinstein Company has created a new international television division which will look to distribute its diverse slate of highly acclaimed and commercially successful television shows to the international market. The new infrastructure will continue the multi-tiered [...]

FremantleMedia & TV Man Union form alliance
Sellers' Forum, 7 April 2008

Cannes – FremantleMedia has formed an alliance with TV Man Union, Inc., one of Japan’s largest independent production companies. The deal will see FremantleMedia shows produced in, and for, Japan; as well as TV Man Union content and formats exported globally. “This alliance [...]

Content kaleidoscope
Sellers' Forum, 1 April 2008

Guadalupe D’Agostino, Vice President & General Manager, RCTV International RCTV International has been expanding its distribution in Asia as its markets have proven to be lucrative. Telenovelas are in demand and we have continued to break new ground across various Asian territories. [...]

First Asia Factual Forum makes its mark
Sellers' Forum, 3 December 2007

Singapore – The inaugural 2-day Asia Factual Forum (AFF) wrapped on Nov. 27 after attracting some 120 delegates from 15 countries for conferences on topics ranging from viability of formats to co-production opportunities. An event of the Asia Media Festival 2007, AFF was co-produced [...]