ZEE Entertainment Enterprises announces to launch ZEE5 Kids
ZEE5, from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL), has announced the launch of ZEE5 KIDS. To provide good quality content for the younger viewers, ZEE5 Kids will house 4000+ hours of entertainment content, across genres, languages, formats and age-group based curations for kids. The service is free for...
One Take Media launches new OTT Platform PlayFlix
One Take Media Co (OTMC), a global content production and distribution hub, is all set to foray into the Indian OTT space with a newly launched app, Playflix. With a content library of more than 10,000 hours of content OTMC’s Playflix will include content across a whopping...
‘Chhota Bheem’ to simulcast in DD National and POGO TV
Homegrown kids’ entertainment channel, POGO has partnered with public service broadcaster Doordarshan to simulcast Chhota Bheem, on DD National. Being a popular animation show, Chhota Bheem has a huge fan following across and beyond the country. Now superhero Bheem will come all the way from Dholakpur to...
Pop Paper City’ wins MipTV 2020 Kids series pitch
17 April 2020 Pop Paper City (52 x 11’) has won MIPTV’s 2020 Kids Series Pitch. The competition presents the most promising projects from creators and producers of animation and live-action series around the globe, showcasing new projects to meet kids’ growing appetite for innovative content. Produced by...
New season of ‘Bahubali: The Lost Legends’ released on Amazon Prime
Graphic India has launched the fifth season of its popular animated series, Bahubali: The Lost Legends on 15 April, on Amazon Prime Video, with an additional new 16 episodes. Produced by Graphic India and Arka Mediaworks, Bahubali: The Lost Legends initially launched in 2017 and was created by Baahubali films director...
Genius Brands International launches ‘Rainbow Rangers’ into the West
Genius Brands International has expanded the reach of its flagship animated preschool series, Rainbow Rangers across the Western Hemisphere with new broadcast deals signed, including Treehouse, owned by Corus Entertainment in Canada and Televisa in Mexico. Commenting on the deal and the present situation, Genius Brands chairman and CEO,...
Dublin based animation studio Daily Madness to launch new mini-series ‘Pins and Nettie’
Dublin-based animation studio Daily Madness Productions is bringing two new sweet and prickly playmates into the lives of young viewers with Pins and Nettie, a new mini-series for kids under five focused on games to play at home, premiering on YouTube Friday, April 17. The new series stars two...
Disney Animator Ann Sullivan dies due to Coronavirus infection
Ann Sullivan, a longtime Walt Disney Studios animator, has died from complications of Covid-19. Sullivan resided at the Motion Picture Television Fund’s (MPTF) skilled nursing facility in Woodland Hills, California. She was 91. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, Sullivan began working at Disney in the 1950s, in...
Disney- Pixar original film ‘Soul’ release date shifted to November
As shelter-at-home and coronavirus prevention lockdown orders are being extended, Walt Disney Studios is shifting Pixar original Soul from its planned June 19 domestic release to November 20. The Thanksgiving holiday window was originally set aside for Disney Animation fantasy-adventure Raya and the Last Dragon, which has been bumped to...
Amazon Game Studios postpone the release of ‘New World’ game series
Amazon Game Studios announced that they have been forced to delay its upcoming MMO New World from May to August due to the global slowdown caused by the ongoing spread of COVID-19. The New World closed beta has also been delayed to July, pushed back from its...