Yearly Archives: 2019

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VideoAge’s 2019 Year In Review

In its 10 issues in 2019, VideoAge reported on 14 countries, covered 17 TV and film trade shows in eight countries, analyzed 18 trends, interviewed 70 different executives, (…)

By |December 30th, 2019|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

CIFF Partners With Viu On Short Films Funding

The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) teamed up with Viu, the Hong Kong-based OTT platform, to organize a financing effort for short films.

The Viu Short Films (…)

By |December 27th, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

Afrika Toon Sets Up Unit In France

West Africa-based Afrika Toon will be establishing a subsidiary in Annecy, Les Papeeteries – Image Factory.

With this latest endeavor, the Ivory Coast animation studio will aim to have (…)

By |December 27th, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

SPI/FilmBox Inks Deal With Telekom Romania For TDC

SPI/FilmBox will bring Telekom Romania subscribers access to its Timeless Drama Channel (TDC).

Telekom Romania subscribers will also now have access to DocuBox and FightBox, two thematic channels (…)

By |December 27th, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

ATV’s ‘Hercai’ Tops Ratings In Chile

ATV licensed its drama series Hercai in over nine countries, including Chile in Latin America.

Chile was the first Latin American country to air Hercai on TVN. The drama series has seen (…)

By |December 27th, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

AFP Inks Strategic Partnership With KBS

AFP entered a strategic partnership with Korean broadcaster KBS to become the main provider of international video news to the public service broadcaster.

With a network across 151 countries, (…)

By |December 23rd, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

DraftKings Merges With SBTech And Diamond Eagle

DraftKings, the digital sports entertainment company, will be going public as part of a definitive business combination agreement with Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp. and SBTech.

Diamond Eagle plans to (…)

By |December 23rd, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

Netflix Announces Original Series With Abla Fahita

Netflix announced a collaboration with Abla Fahita to produce a new Egyptian original series.

Produced by OKWRD Production in cooperation with ASAP Productions and executive producer Amin El (…)

By |December 23rd, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

Apple TV+ To Premiere ‘Mythic Quest’ In February 2020

Apple will premiere Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet exclusively on Apple TV+ starting February 7, 2020.

From Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, the new comedy series centers around a team of video (…)

By |December 20th, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments

NENT Group Signs Kids Content Partnership With NBCUniversal

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) finalized its kids content partnership with NBCUniversal International Distribution.

As part of the agreement, kids and family content from NBCUniversal will be made (…)

By |December 20th, 2019|Categories: News|0 Comments