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Viacom CBS signs multi-year deals with Google for content distribution
ViacomCBS and Google have inked a comprehensive, multi-year distribution deal to deliver more content from ViacomCBS’ leading portfolio of news, entertainment and sports networks for YouTube TV subscribers. This comprehensive deal will introduce 14 additional ViacomCBS cable networks to YouTube’s live TV and on-demand subscription service. BET,...
Disney+ to make eight-episode series of RL Stine’s ‘Just Beyond’
Disney Plus has ordered an eight-episode series based on the RL Stine graphic novels “Just Beyond.” Seth Grahame-Smith will pen the series which is described as a horror-comedy anthology. Grahame-Smith will also executive produce along with David Katzenberg through their KatzSmith Productions banner. Stephen Christy and Ross...
Netflix to launch new episodes of animated series ‘Johnny Test’
Netflix will be distributing two new seasons of the popular animated Canadian series Johnny Test as well as new interactive special set to release from 2021. The new episodes will be carried under the Netflix Original banner. After concluding its original run in 2012, the series has continued to...
9th Annual Asian Animation Summit to be held in Indonesia this year
Kidscreen announced that the ninth-annual Asian Animation Summit is moving forward as a live event scheduled to take place in Bali, Indonesia from 18 to 20 November. Throughout the three-day event, up to 30 projects from Indonesia, Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and elsewhere in Asia-Pacific that...
Sony to make ‘Bubble’ podcast into an animated film
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the makers of the adult comedy animated movie, Sausage Party are working on another animated film aimed at adult audiences. The duo is developing an adaptation of the podcast series Bubble for Sony Pictures Animation. The podcast Bubble is a sci-fi comedy satire set in Fairhaven, a utopian...
Discovery Kids launches new episodes and telemovies to keep the kids entertained this summer
Discovery Kids has pumped up its Summer plans to keep the younger audience engaged and entertained during the lockdown. The kids’ broadcaster has announced to be launching more than 100+ new episodes and eight new telemovies of popular animated IPs – Little Singham and Fukrey Boyzzz. The channel has been...
Toonz Animation creates animated short films to spread awareness during COVID-19 lockdown
Toonz Media Group recently created an animated short to make everyone aware of the importance of wearing face masks during this pandemic. The idea to create a short started with the Kerala government reaching out to creative companies for creating animated COVID prevention videos. The process was...
Dish TV collaborates with MX Player for free Video on Demand
DTH company Dish TV India has partnered with homegrown MX Player to offer unmatched VOD content at zero cost. With this collaboration with MX Player, Dish TV India has further strengthened its portfolio by adding one more app in the app zone on its Android-based connected devices,...
Disney+ Hotstar partners with Airtel for prepaid OTT subscriptions
Disney+Hotstar has teamed up with Airtel, as a result of which, the telco has come up with a new prepaid data pack which gives the user a subscription to one year of Disney+Hotstar VIP. This partnership accelerates the adoption of the video subscription category in the...
Danny DeVito to star in an animated comedy series ‘Little Demons’
FX has reportedly greenlit “Little Demon,” a half-hour animated comedy series that will star Danny DeVito, his daughter Lucy DeVito, and Aubrey Plaza. Deadline reports that production on the series, which hails from the elder DeVito’s Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, ShadowMachine and FX Productions, is expected to...