ProSieben buys majority of UK movie producer Endor
<p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/prosieben-buys-majority-uk-movie-producer-endor-160210690.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/w_GlzS3hWFa2CjQrVFipeg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-03-18T160210Z_1_CBRE82H18K400_RTROPTP_2_GERMANY-MEDIA-PROSIEBEN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A woman walks by a huge logo of Germany's broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in Munich" align="left" title="A woman walks by a huge logo of Germany's broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in Munich" border="0" /></a>FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat1 is to buy a majority stake in British movie and television producer Endor from producer Hilary Bevan Jones, the head of ProSieben's production unit Red Arrow told a German newspaper. "We are reaching a new dimension with the takeover of British production company Endor," Handelsblatt daily cited Jan Frouman as saying in an excerpt of an article to be published on Monday. The paper said he declined to say how much ProSieben was paying for the stake. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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