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DISCOP Abidjan, which took place last week from May 28-30, 2018, saw 605 delegates representing 305 companies in attendance.

Among the attendees included 129 acquisition and programming (…)

Banijay Group entered a global partnership with Twitter to monetize the company’s content and increase brand engagement on the social platform.

Banijay Group operates across 16 territories across (…)

SPI International/FILMBOX signed a distribution agreement with the Lebanese Network Broadcast (LNB).

As part of the deal, LNB will carry nine international thematic channels from SPI’s portfolio: (…)

The Toronto-based distribution company Syndicado signed a digital distribution deal with Cineflix Rights.

The U.K. content distributor obtained the digital rights for the U.S. to more (…)

Mumbai-based GoQuest Media Ventures launched a new division, GoQuest Digital Studios.

The new unit, which will be led by Darshan Bhatt as director, will develop, produce and distribute unscripted (…)

Propagate Content secured a deal with FX to develop the U.S. adaptation of the Colombian format La Niña.

Hilary Bettis, whose work includes The Americans and The Ghosts of Lote Bravo, is (…)

Amazon acquired a package of Premier League games for its SVOD service, Prime Video.

The deal includes the U.K. broadcast rights for 20 games per season, from 2019 (…)

Series Mania moves up in the calendar year for its next edition so that it will not overlap with the multicultural programming event, Lille3000.

The festival’s founder, Laurence (…)

Alan Silverbach, 96, died on June 2, 2018, at his home in Bel Air, CA. He leaves his wife Meredith, son Spencer, three grandchildren and four nephews. Born and raised in (…)

Bryncoed Productions hired Emma Yap as a development producer.

Prior to joining the Canterbury-based production company, Yap served as a global acquisitions executive for NBCUniversal. Yap previously worked (…)