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  • “Star India will prove to be a game changer for us”: James Murdoch

    “Star India will prove to be a game changer for us”: James Murdoch

    CANNES: 21st Century Fox co-chief operating officer James Murdoch has lots of hopes from Star India. During his keynote on day one of the ongoing MIPCOM 2014, he said, “If we continue to innovate and lead in India, it will prove to be a game changer for us. It is the number one network in India.” He further stressed that the India business is really doing well for them and so was Sky in the UK.

     

    Murdoch believes in giving freedom and creating a company which backs talent. “At 21st Century Fox, we aspire to be one of the biggest homes for creativity and storytelling. We want to be a place where we can attract some of the best talent and encourage them to take risks, when they can’t take it anywhere else,” stressed Murdoch.

     

    21st Century Fox which is in different businesses, right from television to movies to cable and satellite, believes that the main business at the end of the day is of digital video and about story telling. “A lot of barriers in different lines of our business is breaking down. The challenges in terms of strategies and customer behaviour is similar from place to place and business to business,” he added.

     

    The biggest media giant believes in giving its executives and talent the freedom to think and create. “The culture that we are creating is that right from Mumbai to LA, the executives should have the confidence for risk taking and do great story telling,” he said. The company believes in empowering people to do great business.

     

    Murdoch laid a lot of emphasis on taking risks. “Larger companies have the ability to take risks. We learn lessons along the way. As a company we have made investments in challenging businesses. We are trying to create a culture where people understand that it is better to take risks, even if you get it wrong, at least you have tried. Great successes come from great risks. We have a culture where we do not get traumatised with failures.  We want to be a place where people feel that they can be backed,” he announced.

     

    He feels that all of Fox’s business is of risk. “Investing in original programming is the biggest risk we take, as investing in original programming means delaying some profits for the company,” he said while giving example of Simpsons, which they made and then acquired for cable syndication in the US. “When we took the step, we didn’t know how customers would react to it.”

     

    “These are the sort of risks one needs to take. I love the moment in the business when you say, ‘Holy Cow, we did it!’” he stressed.

     

    The son of media baron Rupert Murdoch, also spoke about the Shine and Endemol joint venture. “We saw opportunity in merging with Endemol. This is a business which will benefit from scale, breadth and diversity of creativity. Both Shine and Endemol have a great future.”

     

    Murdoch feels that in a creative business, one cannot over-synergise. “You have to allow people to run their own show.”

     

    According to Murdoch, consolidation in infrastructure business of cable and television has begun. “The upstream business will see further consolidation. People will seek to invest more in programming, because they see value in it,” he said.

     

    He also touched upon the most talked about collaboration between Time Warner Cable and 21st Century Fox, which did not take place.  “We had thought that the combination could be exciting. It was an opportunity at a moment in time. Given the nature of these things, we didn’t want to get into things like hostile takeovers and so moved out.”

     

    The company will soon be completing the merger of its three Sky businesses in Europe: UK, Germany and Italy. So why merge the three, he said, “Each one of them in their lifecycle has done really well. There are a lot of common things they do. We feel that together there is a huge opportunity to accelerate the business. Also with this they can create great stories. In Europe there is great opportunity for studio business.”

     

    According to Murdoch, consumers like bundling, because that drives down prices and consumption up. “People will bundle things in different ways and the stack will be re-ordered. Subscription TV is alive and kicking, and it is changing, driven by competition,” he said.

     

    He is happy when customers surprise him. “We need to create authenticity in the content. Customers are being better served today.”

     

    He concluded by saying, “TV industry has been very progressive and we need to be pacesetter.”

  • Fremantlemedia to hypnotise broadcasters at MIPCOM 2014 With Stars Under Hypnosis

    Fremantlemedia to hypnotise broadcasters at MIPCOM 2014 With Stars Under Hypnosis

    CANNES: FremantleMedia is promising to put TV buyers into a trance as it has acquired the global format rights (excluding French speaking territories) to Satisfaction’s Stars Under Hypnosis.

     
    During the show, eight celebrities surrender themselves, and their minds, as they enter the world of hypnosis and undertake a series of experiences that hope to amuse and amaze audiences. The French version of Star Under Hypnosis is produced by Arthur for France’s TF1, featured the talented and gifted hypnotist Messmer. The TV event captured audiences and featured of a mixture of live stage events with a studio audience and pre-recorded segments. Having aired over a two hour slot on TF1, the show launched to 5.1 million viewers and outperformed its network share by 27 per cent; 34 per cent in the commercial target and 50 per cent among younger adults.

    FremantleMedia director of global entertainment development Rob Clark said: “Stars Under Hypnosis is a fantastic new entertainment format which made me laugh from start to finish. The format is ideal for any network looking for a broad family entertainment show.”

    The Television Agency producer and founder of Satisfaction, Arthur Essebag added, “Satisfaction is very happy to work with FremantleMedia on Stars Under Hypnosis, and is sure they will do an amazing job selling it all over the world.”

    The French version of Star Under Hypnosis featured a variety of experiments that showcased Messmer’s hypnosis powers. Guests were transported by Messmer’s voice and took part in tasks such as hypno-transportation – where the celebrity is hypnotised, transported to an unknown location and then woken to find themselves in a strange and awkward situation, a presenter suddenly being able to speak Chinese and being attacked by imaginary insects, a celebrity hypnotised into thinking that he is a burglar and having the irrepressible desire to steal everything in sight, guests of the show thinking that they are naked on live television and guests being made to think that they are cavemen and whilst being chased by mammoths. Each celebrity was able to watch videos of themselves under hypnosis for the first time during the live TV show.  

     

  • MIPCOM 2014: Discovery Italia and Xilam Seal an output deal in Italy

    MIPCOM 2014: Discovery Italia and Xilam Seal an output deal in Italy

    CANNES: Building on the rapid success of brand animated series such as Oggy and the Cockroaches and The Daltons on K2 (the Discovery Italia free-to-air channel targeting kids 4-14 filled with action, adventure and pure entertainment) Award-winning French animation studio Xilam and Discovery Italia have signed an Output deal for the upcoming years.

     
    In a move to strengthen Discovery Italia’s animated comedy line-up and secure access to Xilam’s unique expertise in the field, this comprehensive trade agreement includes 14 series, ie a volume of 450 half-hour programs. In short:
     
    –       250 half hours from Xilam’s library, including Oggy and The cockroaches, The Daltons, Space Goofs, etc.
    –       120 half-hours of series currently in production, including Hubert and Takako, Zig and Sharko (season 2), The Daltons (season 2), etc.
    –       80 half hours, i.e. 3 new series to be produced by Xilam in 2015-2016.

     
    “Building a partnership with Xilam was unavoidable. They are the masters of animated comedies and K2 in the reign of fun,” said Discovery Italia programming and content acquisition director Loredana Di Domenico.

    Xilam founder and president Marc du Pontavice believes that signing deal with Discovery kids is important since K2 is a tremendous job giving exposure to Xilam’s series and this cooperation is going to bring more and more fans to its brand titles.

     

  • MIPCOM 2014: Spark, Astro Malaysia & Moving Visuals join hands to launch Spark Asia

    MIPCOM 2014: Spark, Astro Malaysia & Moving Visuals join hands to launch Spark Asia

    CANNES: Spark, Astro Malaysia and Moving Visuals International (MVI) have signed a joint venture to set-up Asia’s first dedicated HD factual and documentary channel, Spark Asia.

     

    The JV was signed on the first day of MIPCOM 2014.

     

    The channel, which will go live in the first half of 2015, will offer a wide variety of exclusive Asian and global HD content. In addition, Spark Asia will empower the local community of producers and filmmakers by offering an alternative platform to showcase their documentaries and through various training initiatives.

     

    Leveraging on the strengths of its joint venture partners, the new channel will have both linear TV and digital content that will resonate among audiences across Asia. Spark Asia will promote knowledge; celebrate Asian values and traditions and bring Asia to the world in an exciting way. The content will include genres like science & technology, exploration, history, environment, nature and wildlife. The channel will also draw its programming from the vast library of Autentic and ZDF Enterprises.

     

    Asia is the latest launch of the factual entertainment brand Spark, which is also available in Eastern Europe as well as in Africa.

     

    Astro Malaysia CEO Rohana Rozhan said, “As one of Southeast Asia’s leading content and consumer companies, Astro is always exploring new ways to meet the audiences’ changing preferences. With the growing interest in Asian content, there is a huge opportunity in Asian factual content that resonates not only with audiences in Asia but around the world. In line with our strength in the creation of IPs and content brands we believe that the aggregation of Asian-centric stories and factual content in an Asian branded documentary channel is timely and has tremendous potential. This joint venture with like-minded partners enables Astro to take a stake in content that will resonate in Asia and around the world.”

     

    MVI director Galen Yeo added, “As the world’s most populous continent, Asia has long deserved a channel to harness its thriving diversity of culture, history, people and stories. We are pleased to work together with Spark GmbH and Astro on this landmark venture to promote Asian documentary filmmaking, and provide producers a unique platform that will support and promote their work to audiences all across Asia. Spark Asia welcomes opportunities to collaborate and work together with storytellers from around Asia and the world.”

     

    Spark GmbH CEO Patrick Hoerl said, “Being close to our viewers’ lives and hearts has always been at the core of the Spark brand. We can only deliver on that promise, if we team up with the best experts in our business in each region we operate in. It’s hard to think of better partners than Astro and Moving Visuals for a truly Asian channel.”

     

  • The X Factor UK is a global sensation

    The X Factor UK is a global sensation

    MUMBAI: Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia International (FMI) today announced an impressive array of sales for the UK version of The X Factor. Created and owned by Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and co-produced by Syco and Thames TV (part of FremantleMedia UK), The X Factor UK has hit global shores for the very first time and has already sold to an impressive 147 territories worldwide.

     
    Networks from all corners of the world, including AXS (US), MNET (pan-regional Africa), RTL CBS Asia Entertainment (pan-regional Asia) andSony Pictures Television Networks (pan-regional Latin America) have taken Britain’s most talked about entertainment show to their local audiences.
     

    Other broadcasters to snap up the hit show include DR (Denmark), TV3 (Ireland), MTV3 (Finland), 365 Media (Iceland), Sky (Italy), Upstar (Africa) , PBS (Malta), TV2 (Norway), SIC (Portugal), Viacom 18 (Sub-continental India), MediaCorp (Singapore), Workpoint TV (Thailand), Chek (Canada), YES TV (Canada), Hotvision (Israel), Fox International (Russia & Poland) CNC3 (Trinidad), TV Channel 17 (Suriname) and Youku Tudou (China).

     
    The X Factor UK has remained a cultural and ratings phenomenon in the UK for the past decade and has launched more international superstar careers than any other TV show, including multi-million selling global artists One Direction, Little Mix, Olly Murs, Leona Lewis and Ella Henderson. The current season of The X Factor UK had its highest rating launch since season 8 with 10.7 million viewers tuning in to watch the show. The audience share was 104% above ITV1’s prime time average and the series is currently consolidating at almost 10 million viewers per episode, making it – yet again – one of the UK’s most popular shows.

     
    Simon Cowell said: “The UK X Factor was the original version of the show and over the last decade it has set the benchmark all over the world for finding and launching international superstars. These shows were created to find artists like One Direction, Leona Lewis, Olly Murs, Little Mix and Ella Henderson who go on to sell millions of records. I’m delighted the UK show is being watched all over the world – as well as there being so many fantastic local versions of X Factor as well.”

     
    Bob McCourt, Acting CEO, FremantleMedia International said: “The X Factor UK has been one of the most successful entertainment shows in the UK for a decade. Each year the series continues to pull in the big audiences and creates an incredible buzz. Our international clients haverecognised this success and sales have been coming in thick and fast since we launched the show at MIPTV. We are hugely pleased to be working with these broadcasters to bring this staple of the UK’s autumn schedule to the rest of the world.”

     
    George Levendis, Head of International, Syco Entertainment said:“The X Factor UK has millions of fans across the globe who have followed our incredible judges, contestants performances and the excitement of our show through social media & digital platforms.  For the first time we are now delivering the show to broadcasters globally and audiences can enjoy our flagship production in its entirety following our contestants as they take what could be their first steps to superstardom. We are thrilled to be working with our broadcast partners globally.”

     
    The X Factor is a global hit entertainment format and is now produced locally in 51 territories worldwide. Since the launch of The X Factor UK in 2004, the British-born TV show has been watched by more than 360 million people around the world and can be seen in almost every country on earth. The X Factor format has discovered and launched more international break-out artists than any other singing competition show, with more than 180 million record sales by The X Factor artists globally.

     
    The latest season of The X Factor UK has seen Simon Cowell make a celebrated return to once again lead the judging panel on the original UK version of the hit TV show. In a bid to find the next big singing sensation, Simon is joined by a new judging panel line-up including former Spice Girl Mel B, renowned music manager Louis Walsh and returning judge pop princess Cheryl Fernandez-Versini. The judges are joined by award-winning broadcaster and presenter Dermot O’Leary, who is on hand to preside over all of the tears, joy and drama, while providing support to the aspiring stars.

     
    The X Factor UK contestants compete in two sets of audition rounds taking place across the UK in Manchester, London, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. In the initial closed room auditions, contestants find themselves face-to-face with the judges for the first time. If they impress the panel and receive three or more “yes” votes, they will move on to perform in a packed arena in front of a live audience.

     

  • Bomanbridge Media Announces Program Deals With AG Properties

    Bomanbridge Media Announces Program Deals With AG Properties

    CANNES:  Singapore-based distribution/production agency, Bomanbridge Media, have signed several deals in Asia following their recently formed sales collaboration with AG Properties for the hugely iconic, hot kids’ properties Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake.
        
    “Bomanbridge Media is very pleased to represent such great children’s programming from AG Properties in the Asian region. Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears will surely enjoy large audiences here, based on how quickly we closed several deals in the past 2 months since we started; and we expect to close many more at MIPCOM,” said Sonia Fleck, CEO of Bomanbridge Media.
     
    “AG Properties is pleased about extending the viewing reach of Care Bears andStrawberry Shortcake further into Asia with our strategic partner Bomanbridge Media,” said Gia DeLaney, Vice President of Program Sales, AG Properties. “Children from around the world love these characters and we are excited to share them with Asian audiences.”

    Deals Announced:
    *Care Bears / Strawberry Shortcake – Solar Television Network, Inc (9TV)
    *Care Bears DVD sales, Indonesia with PT Unggul Cipta
    *Care Bears TVB, Hong Kong

     

    Program Information

     

    Care Bears:
    First introduced by American Greetings in 1982, Care Bears has become one of the world’s most popular and beloved children’s properties, known to children and adults through consumer products, greeting cards, and an animated CGI television show. The Care Bears share hearts and hugs with children, helping them understand feelings and emotions through love, music, belly badge magic and Care Bear hugs.

     
    Strawberry Shortcake:
    Strawberry Shortcake debuted in 1980 as a line of social expression products, as well as toys, videos, games, crafts and books. Today, the little girl with the big personality is winning the hearts of a third generation of consumers on multiple platforms

     

  • Bomanbridge Media Announces Multiple Sales at MIPCOM

    Bomanbridge Media Announces Multiple Sales at MIPCOM

    CANNES:  Singapore-based distribution/production agency Bomanbridge Media announces a round of deals closed at MIPCOM from several countries.
     
    “This is our best MIPCOM ever, we came strong with our recent expansion, including major investment from Hera Capital; opening our Korean and Mongolian offices and new hires. We are thankful to all our broadcast partners who trust us to bring them the best programs from around the globe which we are confident will ensure great ratings,” said Sonia Fleck, CEO of Bomanbridge Media.

     
    India
    – Latin Angels sold to Fox Life
    – Nutri Ventures (produced by Nutri-Ventures) educational animated series on nutrition, sold toSun TV India

     

    Indonesia
    – Nutri Ventures, (Nutri-Ventures) educational animated series on nutrition, DVD deal with Pt.Unggul Cipta

     
    Japan
    – FBI Files: Polly Klaas Kidnapped and Diagnosis Unknown: New Epidemics produced by New Dominion, sold to TV Asahi

     

    Malaysia ( Pan Regional)
    Cake Walk (13 X 60) from D360 and Food Truck Face Off  from Peace Point; sold to Li TV for SE Asia feed  

              
     
    Malaysia
    It Only Hurts When I Laugh and Planet’s Funniest Animals sold to Media Prime
    (distributed by TV FILMBIZ)

     
    Mongolia
    Bomanbridge procures Mongolian rights for telenovelas La Impostura (NBC Telemundo) and Eva Luna (Venevision)

     
    Singapore
    – Nutri Ventures (Nutri-Ventures) educational animated series on nutrition, sold toMediacorp’s Okto & Toggle

  • MIPCOM 2014: Culture Machine to bring What’s Trending to India

    MIPCOM 2014: Culture Machine to bring What’s Trending to India

    CANNES: MIPCOM 2014, now in its 30th year, is the biggest hub where the industry’s major players converge to turn every moment into an opportunity. Making the most of it, Culture Machine, a next generation digital video entertainment company, has announced a strategic tie-up with the award winning US based network, What’s Trending.
     
    In a first-of-its-kind content alliance, Culture Machine will launch the India channel/network for What’s Trending and create exclusive programming under the brand for the region. This strategic alliance will not only strengthen Culture Machine’s leadership in the space but also provide digital consumers with a wide array of international quality content.
     
    Through this alliance, Culture Machine will work closely with What’s Trending to create content, featuring talents and brands across the Indian sub-continent and syndicate What’s Trending India and International content in the region.
     
    The video entertainment company will use its network strength of over 500 YouTube creators, brands, state-of-the-art production facilities and proprietary technology capabilities to grow the What’s Trending brand in the country. This marks a first time partnership where an original digital property is formatted locally by an international digital network.
     
    “Culture Machine and What’s Trending both work with the core objective of creating entertaining, trending and shareable digital video content that reaches out to audiences at scale through powerful, creative and path-breaking digital programming. This alliance is a perfect match. We are delighted to partner with What’s Trending and spearhead the first international digital format partnership in the space,” said Culture Machine CEO Sameer Pitalwalla.
     
    What’s Trending is an award-winning US-based media company which gives its audiences the hottest trending videos and internet culture every day, starring the biggest traditional and digital stars anywhere. With over 50,000,000 views on YouTube, What’s Trending works with the biggest brands in the world to entertain audiences via any and every screen.
     
     Culture Machine COO Venkat Prasad added, “Culture Machine has a unique and unmatched understanding of India’s digital market and through our proprietary technology, we not only understand what the audience sitting online wants but have the capability to deliver it and scale it, consistently, time and again. We are confident of our capabilities to provide the best platform to What’s Trending in India and make the brand grow in the region.”
     
    “We are incredibly proud to partner with Culture Machine, a company that shares our vision of creating television quality entertainment for the digital generation,” said What’s Trending CEO Damon Berger. “With Culture Machine, the format of What’s Trending will inform and delight audiences all over India and Southeast Asia,” he concluded.

     

  • Russia will present over 30 new films and TV series at MIPCOM 2014

    Russia will present over 30 new films and TV series at MIPCOM 2014

    CANNES: The major international market of audiovisual content for all platforms – MIPCOM stars working on Oct, 13 in Cannes. MIPCOM opens wide opportunities for searching of international distribution channels and establishing communications with top players of the industry, that’s why for most Russian companies this market in one of the key events of year. Russian distributors will present domestic cinema under Russian Cinema brand for the second time in Cannes.

     

    Special attention of stand work will be paid to the promotion of the Russian cinema new (2014) line up and project at the production stage, having a high commercial potential and focused in wide international audience. According to the distributors` experience at the previous markets, Russian comedy, big–budget historical costume series, action films, and full–length animations for family viewing have the greatest demand among foreign buyers. That’s why participating companies of RA stand emphasized precisely such products in their catalogues.

     

    Bazelevs Distribution is going to announce its debut on the Israeli market as direct distributor. A new comedy Kiss Them All 2 will be the first Bazelevs release of that kind. The sequel to the most profitable film in the history of Russian cinema will hit the screens of the Israeli network Yes Planet simultaneously with its release in Russia. The film will be shown in Russian with Hebrew subtitles. According to the information from the company`s press-service, they plan to continue showing all our new films in Israel in that format. Ahead of the launch, the Russian-language Israeli broadcaster Channel Nine Israel will air the first Kiss Them All film. In addition, Kiss Them All will become available to subscribers of the HOT cable network in Israel. They are planning to finalize the transfer of TV premiere rights to and discuss in detail their further cooperation with Israeli partners. There are also other projects: Christmas comedy Yolki 1914: Tsar Christmas (December, 25, 2014), Fools’ Day (release – November, 2014), Paws, Bones & Rock’n’roll (January, 2015), Kiss Them All 2 (October, 2014), Kiss Them All (2013).

     

    Planeta Inform Film Distribution will present the new series productions. There are premium-series Catherine the Great (produced by Mars Media by the Channel One Russia order), Rasputin, Headhunters, The Three Musketeers in the company’s set. Catherine the Great is on production stage now, the work over Rasputin has been recently completed, but the telefilm isn’t on the air at present moment. On the territory of the Russian Federation Channel One holds the rights for both projects. Anastasia Bankovskaya, a head of International Sales & Acquisitions Director, shared that at MIPCOM the new promo of Catherine the Great and the 1st episode of Rasputin would be presented to the foreign buyers of TV content. The company made over 30 appointments with the representatives from Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Korea, Italy, Brazil, Turkey. The talks about sales of The Three Musketeers, a film and the series to Turkey, China, France will be carried on. Earlier the film was sold on the territory of Germany, Poland, Korea, Israel and the USA (digital rights). According to A.B, the first reports from the realization of the films set over digital platforms in the USA will be available in November. But it has already become known that The Three Musketeers took the leading positions with the number of views in the film catalogue, supplied by company`s partner VOD-platforms. Also Planeta Inform Film Distribution will carry on their work over Metro (2012), Chempiony (2014), The Brest Fortress (2010).

     

    Wizart Animation will keep selling their full-length projects Sheep and Wolves (2015) and The Snow Queen 2. An English version of the last one has recently been grown by a star cast. Animated characters will be dubbing by Sean Bean, Sharlto Copley, Bella Thorne and Isabelle Fuhrman. The release of The Snow Queen 2 is scheduled on January, 1, 2015. According to the results of the previous markets, the first film of the franchise The Snow Queen was successfully sold in more than 35 countries and triumphantly conquered all the continents.

     

    Sovtelexport, an overseas distributor of Russia’s television and film content, will showcase its new extensive catalogue of the programming in various genres: feature films, documentaries, series, adaptations of Russian classics, TV shows and concerts, at MIPCOM 2014. The catalogue contains the content of Russia Television and Radio and other leading Russia’s production companies – in particular, these are Russia Today, Nikita Mikhalkov’s Studio TriTe, Bazelevs Production, the Star Media studio and Format TV. The historical drama Ekaterina is the company’s flagship project in this season; it tells the incredible story of a great empress and ill-fated woman, the world-renowned Ekaterina II. According to the company’s management opinion, the popularity of the genre, a substantial budget, magnificent costumes, superb acting, multiple filming locations, authentic interiors and stunning scenery combine to make an impressive production with real appeal on the international market. Sovtelexport also highlights in its line-up as promising projects: drama mini-series Demons (2014) based on the eponymous Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel and biopic The Iron Ivan (2014).

     

    New People Film Company will bring to Cannes Battle for Sevastopol (2015), Russian-Ukrainian production. Mila Rozanova, a film producer, tells that to announce project Battle for Sevastopol is the main target of company`s participation at MIPCOM market. This project has two formats: film and mini-series. Mrs Rozanova pointed out: “Now we are mostly interested in TV-buyers, who will be ready to buy right for mini-series, for this target MIPCOM is just an ideal market.” Also the company will keep on promotion of the Ivan Tverdovsky`s film debut Corrections Class (2014).

     

    Russian World Vision (RWV), performing a wide range of local comedies and action films, announced in its set series Insomnia (2013), Fort Ross (2014), an action Spiral (2014), Kazakh-Russian action The Witch’s Brook (2014), a comedy Sex Competition 2  (2014) by Sarik Andreasyan, which new film American Heist, created in co-production with the USA, participated in the competitive program of just ended 39th International Toronto cinema festival (Canada).

     

    All Media will continue international sales of a comedy Kitchen in Paris (2014), based on the original Russian TV series Kitchen.

  • MipJunior 2014: Revolution Studios names Miramax as global TV and digital distributor

    MipJunior 2014: Revolution Studios names Miramax as global TV and digital distributor

    CANNES: The ongoing MipJunior at Palm Beach in Cannes, France is the hotspot for major announcements from world over. In one such development, Revolution Studios has announced its association with Miramax which will now manage the Studios’ global television and digital distribution licensing titles, including all titles from the recently acquired Morgan Creek international film library.

     

    While the terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, the agreement expands the current alliance, under which Miramax has represented Revolution in the US since June 2012. Miramax will begin representing Revolution’s titles internationally as rights begin to revert back to Revolution, while Morgan Creek titles are immediately available internationally from Miramax.

     

    “We are excited to take this next step in our relationship with Miramax, which has proven to be a formula for success on the domestic front,” announced Revolution chief executive officer Vince Totino.

     

    Revolution COO Scott Hemming said, “The Miramax global sales team is among the most respected and creative in the industry and we look forward to working with them to broaden our diverse library worldwide. Miramax representing Revolution globally is the next natural step in continuing our collaboration of our already established and strong domestic foundation.”

     

    Revolution titles represented by Miramax include more than 40 top tier Hollywood films such as: Black Hawk Down, America’s Sweethearts, 13 Going on 30, Maid in Manhattan, XXX and Daddy Day Care.

     

    The Morgan Creek titles acquired by Revolution and now represented by Miramax include: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, True Romance, The Last of the Mohicans and Major League.

     

    “Miramax is proud to expand its partnership with Revolution and we are excited to now represent the Revolution and Morgan Creek titles internationally. This fantastic collection of content is highly complementary to the Miramax catalog, providing us unique positioning within the international TV and digital landscape,” said Miramax executive VP worldwide TV sales Joe Patrick.

     

    The Miramax global sales team has successfully brought hundreds of titles to existing and emerging platforms in nearly every country in the world, including free and premium linear TV, subscription video-on-demand and ad-supported video-on-demand. Miramax will now include the Revolution and Morgan Creek titles in their international offering, maximising distribution of these film catalogs around the world.