Tom Butterfield has been hired as Content Media’s head of production. Butterfield will oversee productions in the pipeline, source high-quality projects for the company’s development and production slate, in addition (…)
Lionsgate has acquired distribution rights for Natural Born Pranksters, a movie starring YouTube artists Vitalyzd TV, Roman Atwood and Dennis Roady. Collective Digital Studio financed and produced the film, (…)
Javier Fabián was diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. Doctors thought there was no cure, until they tried a neuro-stimulator—a surgically implanted device that sends electrodes to different areas of the brain. (…)
Over 4,800 content buyers and sellers are expected to attend this year’s Asia TV Forum, to buy, sell, distribute, finance and co-produce across all platforms and genres. The event takes (…)
Caracol Television’s Men Cry Too premiered in El Salvador on October 2. The series, which combines romance and heartbreak, narrates the emotional journey of Javier, a well-known doctor whose (…)
Jennifer Bragg has been named director, Factual and Lifestyle Development at Toronto-based Portfolio Entertainment. Bragg will lead Portfolio’s factual division and manage end-to-end content development for Canadian and international broadcasters, (…)
National Geographic Channel announced an upcoming Pope Francis biopic, Rebel Pope, and a Space Shuttle Challenger film, Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes. Rebel Pope, interweaves dramatic accounts of Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s (…)
The Berlin International Film Festival’s summit and networking platform, Berlinale Talents, will host over 100 talks, workshops and networking events to encourage collaboration and exchange. The 14th edition (…)
Vibrant TV Network is now available on the Roku streaming platform. Vibrant TV offers lifestyle, comedy and factual English-language programming from around the world. Roku customers have (…)
Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana has signed broadcast deals with Discovery Latin America and Société Radio-Canada for animated series Trucktown and Mike the Knight. Discovery Latin America will introduce (…)
