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Del Taco Spices up Holidays with Animation
Fast-food chain Del Taco has partnered with Classic Media to sell digitally re-mastered DVD releases of the animated holiday favorites Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. The titles will be available for $15.99 for a limited time while supplies last. This marks [...]
3D Indie Delgo Lands Publishing, Merchandising Deals
Fathom Studios, producer of the upcoming, star-studded, independent CG fantasy feature Delgo, has entered into a partnership with Joy Tashjian Marketing Group and a multi-format publishing agreement with Price Stern Sloan, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group. Joy Tashjian formerly served as president of Worldwide Merchandising and Sales for [...]
Alphanim’s Potatoes & Dragons Gets Book Deal
Alphanim’s Potatoes & Dragons, a 7×78 series that will begin airing on France 3 early next year, has already landed a publishing deal. Hachette Jeunesse will put out ten illustrated novels and game books based on the series as part of its Bibliothèque Rose collection. Founded in 1850, Hachette Jeuness [...]
PorchLight Licenses Jay Jay to Briarpatch
Under a new licensing agreement, Briarpatch is developing a series of bookshelf, card and travel games based on the award-winning 3D series Jay the Jet Plane, co-produced by PorchLight Ent. and Modern Cartoons in association with Knightscove Ent. Already introduced at the Fall Mass Market Toy Expo, the new product [...]
DIC Licenses Strawberry Shortcake for PC Games
DIC Ent. has licensed its revived Strawberry Shortcake property to Riverdeep/The Learning Co., which will develop PC games based on the toy line and animated series. The first title, Amazing Cookie Party, will feature four activities with three different levels to accommodate a wide range of dexterity and mental aptitude. [...]
New Looney Tunes Short to Premiere at Wal-Mart
In conjunction with the Nov. 14 release of its major motion picture Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Warner Bros. is set to release a series of new Looney Tunes shorts in theaters. These are the first original cartoons featuring the Looney gang produced by the studio in nearly a decade [...]
Warner Home Vid, Leapfrog in Distrib Deal
Warner Home Video Inc. (WHV) and technology-based educational products developer LeapFrog Ent. Inc. have entered into a multi-year domestic home video distribution agreement. WHV will exclusively distribute multiple children’s preschool learning home video titles produced by LeapFrog. The first releases will be the animated offerings The LeapFrog Letter Factory and [...]
Taz’s Armpit Music Promotes New Movie
Mattel’s new line of Looney Tunes toys, inspired by the upcoming Warner Bros. Looney Tunes: Back in Action, includes a Tazmanian Devil toy that plays music with its armpit. What’s more, Greg Proops, of TV’s improv series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, led kids in an armpit rendition of Twinkle, [...]
Carlton Int’l to Re-launch Captain Scarlet Licensing
As Gerry Anderson sets about remaking his classic Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet in CG, Carlton Int’l says it will be managing the development of a range of new licensed product to tie in with the new show, which is slated for completion by mid-2005. Although it will substitute puppetry with [...]
DIC Consumer Products Expands Int’l Operations
As DIC gears up for the international launches of kid’s entertainment brands including Strawberry Shortcake, Madeline and Super Duper Sumos, DIC Consumer Products has significantly expanded its licensing programs across Europe, Latin America, Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East. DIC’s U.S. re-launch of Strawberry Shortcake this year has [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
