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Keith Chapman Productions partners with Toonz Media for new TV series

Keith Chapman, creator of kids’ IP, and Toonz Media Group are uniting forces on the Keith Chapman and Emily Chapman created Paddypaws and Pals, a 52×11’ CGI preschool series. Paddypaws and Pals is planned to be launched in October to coincide with Mipcom ’20. The production and distribution are...

MX Player partners with Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures for Content deals

Global stories with universal values and dubbing international films in local languages find large audiences in India. Understanding the growing need and preferences of the discerning viewer, MX Player is expanding on their brand promise of ‘Everytainment’ and becomes the first Indian AVOD platform to ink a...

Walt Disney announces new release dates of its movies

Disney has finally confirmed new release dates for its movies until 2022 after many were postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic. The company is already losing millions a day from closing their theme parks and having postponed hits like Mulan and Black Widow from their original spring 2020 release dates. Disney...

Marvel Unlimited to give free access to comics during the Quarantine

Marvel Unlimited, Marvel’s digital comics subscription service, is offering FREE access to some of Marvel’s most iconic stories from recent years to its fans during this Coronavirus pandemic. The subscription also includes the recent Marvel Comics events and critically acclaimed titles featuring the Avengers, Spider-Man, Black Widow,...

Times Prime partners with ZEE5 to give free subscriptions during the lockdown

As the country is currently experiencing a 21-day lockdown, entertainment consumption has increased. Keeping that in mind, Times Prime has partnered with ZEE5 to offer an uninterrupted dose of digital entertainment to people during this unprecedented situation. As part of the deal, Times Prime is offering new...

Disney+ Hotstar to launch in India on 3rd April 

Walt Disney is finally launching Disney+ in India through Hotstar tomorrow, 3 April. Hotstar has a very strong presence in the Indian OTT landscape with over 300 million MAUs (Monthly Active Users) and wide content library of daily soaps, Bollywood blockbusters and Hotstar Specials. With the launch...

Discovery Kids Latin America to take the first season of ‘Esme & Roy’

Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana, an international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content, along with Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organisation behind Sesame Street, have announced that the first season of the award-winning animated series Esme & Roy has been picked up by Discovery Kids in Latin America....

Indian Information and Broadcasting Ministry re-telecasts iconic 80s shows during the lockdown

Coronavirus outbreak and 21-day lockdown in India recently spurred on the government to treat the nostalgia-stricken Indian to 80s’ and 90s’ iconic shows — Ramayana and Mahabharat and the recent entrant is fan favourite Shaktiman. While the broadcasting of epics Ramayan and Mahabharat began on 28 March on public demand, Shaktiman actor and producer announced in his live...

Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle to lend her voice on a Disney documentary

Meghan Markle is narrating an upcoming Disney nature documentary titled The Elephant. Markle has landed her first job for Disney since she and husband, Prince Harry, announced they were stepping back from royal duties. Disneynature, an offshoot of Disney that makes nature documentaries, took to their Twitter page...

Kross Komics app to launch 500+ comics free for comic lovers

Social distancing, quarantining, isolation, house arrest are a few words we are hearing or reading almost everyday in recent times. But staying indoors is the best we can do to combat the virus. Of course it’s boring to stay home all the time, but there are a...