Film and TV Industry Shifts Focus

“Baywatch” was a staple of low-budget, first-run syndication in the 1990s, as natural to Los Angeles as David Hasselhoff’s chest hair and as defining of the city in that era as the O.J. trial and the Sunset Strip. By the time it ended its run in 1999, it had become too costly to pr

Gkids has acquired all North American rights to “Cocoon – One Summer of Girlhood,” a wartime animated drama based on Kyo Machiko’s manga, with a theatrical release set for Sept. 4. The film will screen in both Japanese with English subtitles and in an English dub. Set on a Japanese

A takeover of a channel on SiriusXM and a year-long Fox Nation subscription priced at $17.76 are just two of the ways Fox News Media will recognize the nation’s semiquincentennial. Starting June 24, Fox News Media will begin delivering coverage of the 250th birthday of the U.S. from various lo

Carlyle Global Credit unveiled the successful closing of a new fund for Content Partners, raising fresh capital for the LA-based firm’s film and TV investments. Existing investors in two previous funds, as well as new investors, have the option to participate in the so-called single-asset cont

EXCLUSIVE: Superights, the international sales arm of French studio Superprod, has unveiled new deals on animation reboots Miffy and Friends and Underdog. Revisiting the classic 1950s franchise of the same name, Underdog has been acquired for China (Reese Entertainment, Switzerland (RTS), French-spe