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Entertainment One gears up for the release of popular pre-school superhero series ‘PJ Masks’

Entertainment One (eOne) is suiting up for a fifth series of its global preschool superhero show, PJ Masks, announcing that a fresh batch of 52 x 11′ episodes is slated for delivery in 2021. Produced by eOne and Frog Box, in collaboration with Disney Junior and France 5,...

Netflix expands the relationship with animation studio Titmouse with multi-year deals

Netflix is expanding its relationship with animation studio Titmouse, signing a multi-year overall deal to produce multiple original adult animated series. Under the pact, Netflix will also have a first look at adult animated series developed and created at Titmouse. The two companies have previously partnered on...

Nickelodeon secures PayTV rights for Amazon Original ‘Just Add Magic’

Nickelodeon has acquired the international pay TV rights to Amazon Prime’s live-action series ‘Just Add Magic’ from producer and distributor Sinking Ship Entertainment excluding the Americas and China. The 50 x 22-minute show started airing on Nickelodeon in the UK first, late last year and all other territories will...

Disney in works to remake its 1942 animated film ‘Bambi’

From bears to lions to deer: Disney is developing a lifelike remake of its 1942 animated feature “Bambi,” an article in Variety has confirmed. Screenwriters Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”) and Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) will write the screenplay, with Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth...

CGI- made ‘Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back- Evolution’ to be released on Netflix

Netflix and The Pokémon Company International announced on 23rd January 2020 that the newest animated movie based on the beloved Pokémon franchise will premiere on Netflix around the world outside of Japan and Korea. Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution welcomes a new CGI style to animated Pokémon movies...

HBO Max to produce ‘The Prince’ based on the British Monarch

HBO Max has added The Prince, created by multiple Emmy-nominated producer and writer Gary Janetti (Family Guy, Will & Grace) to its line of animated comedy series on order. Inspired by Janetti’s lampooning Instagram account with nearly a million followers, the series satirizes the life of the British...

Patton Oswalt to voice the supervillain of Marvel’s TV animated series M.O.D.O.K

Marvel and Hulu announced four adult animated series a year based on characters including Howard the Duck, M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, and Tigra and Dazzler. The full cast has been revealed for Marvel and Hulu’s upcoming M.O.D.O.K. television series, which will feature Patton Oswalt as the titular supervillain. The...

Kelowna based Yeti Farm Creative to team up with Chef Pierre A. Lamielle for new pre- School series

Kelowna-based animation studio, Yeti Farm Creative is partnering with renowned chef Pierre A. Lamielle for pre-school series Munchy, Munchy. The series will be based on Lamielle’s The Munchy Munchy Cookbook for Kids along with Alice Eats: A Wonderland Cookbook and Kitchen Scraps: A Humorous Illustrated Cookbook. The series will have 12 episodes, one...

The storyline of upcoming ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ confirmed

Despite myriad challenges that the Marvel Studios film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness faced, it looks like the company has gone into overdrive in trying to find a new director to step in for the departed Scott Derrickson. And while we are aware that the...

Meryl Streep to narrate new Apple+ animated series ‘Here We Are’

Apple is going to release an original animated film titled Here We Are starring the voice of Meryl Streep based on the children’s book, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers. The film follows a precocious seven-year old, voiced by Jacob Tremblay (Room), who...