Fast-growing French production house Banijay Entertainment has taken a 50% stake in German group Brainpool, the company behind hit format "Beat Your Host."

German media festival and confab the Cologne Conference has added a new section focusing on independent cinema.

Soul Kitchen," the new film from "Edge of Heaven" director Fatih Akin, will open the Hamburg Film Festival (Sept. 24-Oct.3).

The European Commission in Brussels greenlighted France's tax break for big-budget foreign productions on Thursday, after the "TRIP" law was passed by the Gallic government in December, Film France confirmed.

HBO has teamed up with Apple to market its original series on iTunes Canada, it was announced Thursday.

The BBC has defended its coverage of pop singer Michael Jackson's death after nearly 750 viewers complained that the pubcaster had given too much airtime to the topic.

Canada's continuing fire sale of local TV stations got rained on this week as cable operator Shaw Communications pulled plans to buy three over-the-air outlets from CTVglobemedia for $1 each.

MTV Networks International will see one of its formats air on Chinese television for the first time when "Tiao Zhan Xiao Yong" Shi runs on state-owned China Central Television this summer.

Matthias Alberti is stepping down as co-head of German free-TV at European broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1, the company said Thursday.

The Skip City International D-Cinema Festival is expanding and shifting its focus to nurturing new young talent, festival director Yuji Takizawa said.

Director Wim Wenders has stopped production on the planned 3D dance film "Pina" following the death of the film's subject -- the legendary choreographer Pina Bausch.

Steve Brennan, a 20-year veteran reporter and editor at The Hollywood Reporter, died Thursday at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after a yearlong battle with cancer.

Andro Steinborn has resigned from Berlin-based production house X Filme Creative Pool and its co-production arm X Filme International.

Mark Williams may be British and Premiere may be a German pay channel, but for both July 4 will be Independence Day.

A little-known deputy film censor has been promoted to oversee China's rapidly growing movie industry, sources inside the State Administration of Radio Film and Television told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday.

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