Paramount Animation acquires film rights for ‘C.O.S.M.O.S’
Paramount Animation has optioned the film rights to C.O.S.M.O.S., an upcoming kids’ sci-fi book series from Thomas Wheeler — co-creator of Cursed and writer on family flicks Puss in Boots, The LEGO Ninjago Movie and Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Wheeler is also attached to write the adaptation. C.O.S.M.O.S. — centred on...
Netflix acquires worldwide rights for ‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights (excluding China) to The Mitchells vs. The Machines (formerly Connected) from Sony Pictures Animation. The road trip comedy-adventure about an ordinary family that must band together to unplug a technological apocalypse will roll out later this year. “This is a very personal movie about...
ADK Emotions announces the new season of ‘Beyblade’ series to premiere this February
ADK Emotions NY, a New York-based subsidiary of ADK Emotions, has announced that Beyblade Burst Surge Season 5 will premiere Saturday, February 20 on Disney XD. The new season consists of 26 episodes, running 22 minutes each. The highly anticipated fifth season will debut with two brand new episodes...
European distributor Mondo TV announces plans for season 2 of ‘MeteoHeroes’
Mondo TV, one of the largest European producers and distributors of animated content, has announced plans for the second season of its enormously popular environmentally themed animated kids’ show MeteoHeroes. The first season has sold into more than 120 countries and was among the top shows airing on...
ViacomCBS announces the rebranding of CBS All Access to Paramount+
ViacomCBS has set the launch of the rebranded streaming platform Paramount+. CBS All Access will be rebranded as Paramount+ in Canada on 4 March and then evolve into an expanded offering later in the year. It will go live in the U.S. and Latin America on 4...
Cosmos-Maya partners with Warner Media to produce ‘Dabangg’ animated series
After Little Singham and Smashing Simmba, we have a new cop in town. Kids are in for a treat as the fearless, hilarious, and iconic cop Chulbul Pandey soon arrives in an animated ‘avatar’ on TV screens in a quirky new cartoon, Dabangg – The Animated Series. Produced by Cosmos-Maya along...
Netflix acquires rights for Mexican animated film ‘Xico’s Journey’
Netflix has taken up the distribution rights to Mexican animated adventure fantasy film, Xico’s Journey (El Camino de Xico – 2020), which is arriving on the streamer on 12 February 2021. Launched in cinemas in Mexico in November 2020, the animated feature film will be available in Hindi, English,...
Future Today partners with Moonbug Entertainment for the launch of new Kids’ channels
Future Today, the only full-stack streaming solution that packages branded channels and delivers audiences to watch them, announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Moonbug Entertainment Ltd., one of the largest digital media companies in the world, with the launch of five new omni-platform streaming channels...
Winsing Animation’s ‘Dairy of Dinosaurs’ to hit the big screens on May 1st
Winsing Animation has announced that Diary of Dinosaurs is roaring ahead with a theatrical release in China, debuting in cinemas May 1. The 90-minute CG family feature is a comedy action-adventure about a family of herbivorous dinos striving to defend their homeland. The movie follows star agent intern Woody...
Netflix to create musical animated shorts on bestselling children’s book ‘Antiracist Baby’
Netflix is creating a series of musical animated shorts for young viewers based on bestselling children’s book Antiracist Baby by historian and antiracism scholar Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi is executive producing children’s TV writer/producer Chris Nee (Doc McStuffins, Vampirina), who has an overall deal with the streaming platform....