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Moonbug Entertainment veterans Jiella Esmat and Karine Ahton have launched 8 Lions Entertainment. Co-founder and chief executive officer Esmat was most recently chief revenue officer of Amuse Animation & Amuse (…)

Electric Entertainment has acquired the exclusive North American distribution rights to the full-length feature film Long December. The deal gives Electric all digital, non-theatrical, home video and broadcast rights in (…)

Dr. Seuss Enterprises has partnered with Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company) to expand the Dr. Seuss IP within the digital landscape and specifically on the launch of a Dr. (…)

Veteran television writer and producer Hank Steinberg and FOX Entertainment have entered a broadcast direct deal. Under the terms of this new deal, Steinberg expands his collaboration with FOX Entertainment, (…)

Sphere Abacus, formerly Abacus Media Rights, has signed a raft of package deals for fiction and non-fiction titles throughout CEE.

Pay-TV Channel Pickbox has acquired a drama package for Croatia, Slovenia, (…)

Mattel and WildBrain have secured multiple deals for kids’ shows Fireman Sam and Polly Pocket, based on the popular Mattel brands. The new deals are part of a multi-year co-development, production, distribution and (…)

Seven.One Studios International has acquired If Pigs Could Talk, a new documentary special that turns everything you know about pigs upside down.

In this one-off doc, a group of world-leading scientists embark (…)

Canada-based Amuz Distribution has announced that recently acquired Just For Laughs Group is now directly operating and distributing its FAST channels over 30 markets/platforms. New platforms that will carry JFL (…)

U.S. cable-satellite TV programmers are again at odds with distributors. The latest bout is between Disney and DirecTV over distribution fees for its channels (including ESPN, FX, and Disney Channel), (…)