Breakthrough Entertainment
Breakthrough Entertainment has sold the first film in its Anne MOW trilogy to Japan’s Happinet Corporation for a theatrical, DVD and VOD release. The feature will open in Japanese theatres on May 6 and at-a-yet-to-be-announced later day, will be released on DVD and VOD. The Breakthrough production will screen on 38 screens throughout Japan in May and June. Written by Susan Coyne and directed by John Kent Harrison, the film also received theatrical runs in New Zealand and Australia and has previously received broadcast airings on Corus Entertainment’s YTV, PBS (U.S.), ITV (U.K.), and ARD (Germany). Breakthrough produced the movie in association with Corus’ YTV, where second installment in the trilogy aired last month.

Bell Media
The Toy Box, a new branded series from Hudsun Media, Electus and Mattel, is headed to Canada, where it will simulcast on CTV alongside its U.S. premiere on ABC at 8 p.m. on April 7. The announcement comes after a deal signed between Electus International and Bell Media. The Toy Box is a competition format in which unknown toy designers are given an opportunity to bring their concept to life with help from Mattel. Each one-hour episode will see five inventors battle for a spot in the season finale, where a sole champion is crowned. The winning toy is then immediately made available for sale nation-wide through a partnership with Toys R Us. Hosted by Eric Stonestreet, the series also features high-profile industry mentors, including Dylan’s Candy Bar owner Dylan Lauren, toy guru Jim Silver and Jen Tan, creative director of consumer products at Pixar. The inventors must also pass their toy ideas through a panel of judges made up of four children, age six to nine years. The Toy Box will air on both ABC and CTV on April 7 at 8 p.m. ET. Electus will also be shopping format internationally at MIPTV in Cannes.

Facet4
Canada/Ireland copro Acceptable Risk, produced by Ireland-based prodcos Saffron Pictures and Soho Moon and Quebec’s Facet4 Media, has been picked up by SundanceTV Global. The deal will see the six-part drama airing across multiple territories including central and eastern Europe, Dutch-speaking Benelux, Iberia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa region, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. U.K.-based distributor DCD Rights holds the global rights to the series, which airs later this year on Irish national broadcaster RTÉ Ireland. Filming on the hour-long show, starring Elaine Cassidy (No Offence), Angeline Ball (Redwater), Morten Suurballe (Vikings) and Geordie Johnson (Murdoch Mysteries), began last October in Dublin and Montreal. Acceptable Risk tells the story of a woman who begins to realize how little she knew of her husband before his death. The Canadian producers on the series are Facet4′s Stephen Greenberg, Jamie Greenberg and Anna-Sue Greenberg.

With files from Darah Hansen, Realscreen