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Discreet Kicks Off “Shock Your System” Campaign
Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., announced its “shock your system” trade-in program towards the purchase of a smoke system, its award-winning creative editing, conforming and finishing solution. For a limited time, qualified non-linear editing system owners can obtain a credit for their existing non-linear editing system traded-in towards the [...]
Strawberry Shortcake Targets Tongue Fans
You know it was bound to happen sooner or later. JAKKS Pacific announced that it has signed a licensing deal with DIC Entertainment and American Greetings to produce Tongue Tape, candy tongue strips based on American Greetings property Strawberry Shortcake. Set to debut at the National Confections Associations Candy Expo [...]
All Aboard for Sinbad Promotions
DreamWorks’ upcoming animated adventure Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas will set sail amid a sea of promotional tie-ins. Among the companies partnering with DreamWorks Consumer Products to support the movie’s July 2 release are Baskin-Robbins, Burger King Corp., General Mills, Hewlett Packard, M&M’s Brand, Valpak and Speedway SuperAmerica. The [...]
Pinocchio 3000 Feature on the Block
CinéGroupe’s upcoming CG feature film, Pinocchio 3000, is now available for licensing. Carlton Consumer Division will be handling licensing, theatrical, publishing, broadcast and video rights in the U.K. for the property. Pinocchio 3000 (P3K) employs 3D computer animation to retell the classic story of a puppet who longs to become [...]
Toons Laugh to the Bank in South Africa
Warner Bros. Consumer Products has licensed Loony Tunes’ Tweety, DC Comics’ Batman and Superman and Cartoon Network’s The Powerpuff Girls, among others, to Mastercard (Maestro) South Africa for branded debit cards targeted to the youth market. The card system, branded (sum)1 (pronounced “someone”), is the first banking product to carry [...]
Koala Brothers Under Big Tent Ent.
Following news of a European toy license deal with Hasbro, London-based Spellbound Ent. has licensed its stop-motion pre-school series The Koala Brothers to Big Tent Ent. for U.S. marketing in categories including toys, publishing and interactive. From the exec producer of Bob the Builder, The Koala Brothers follows two brothers [...]
Hasbro Licenses Spellbound Ent.’s The Koala Brothers
U.K.-based rights holder Spellbound Ent. has granted Hasbro Inc. an international toy license for its new pre-school property, The Koala Brothers. The deal covers merchandise categories such as plush toys, figurines, play sets and Play-Doh, with the first items slated to debut in stores next year. The Koala Brothers follows [...]
Score Ent. Scores Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Rights
Score Ent. is teaming with FUNimation Prods. to produce a trading card game based on the popular anime show Yu Yu Hakusho, which airs during Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. On TV, Yu Yu Hakusho follows a band of teenage detectives who investigate happenings in the Spirit World. The show’s ratings [...]
Hasbro Sells Five Million Beyblades
The Japanese toy craze that became a popular Japanese animated series that became a hit U.S. animated series has now become a major U.S. toy craze. If you thought that sentence was dizzying, Hasbro Inc. has released sales figures for its Beyblade line of high performance spinning tops, which have [...]
University Games Joins Justice League
San Francisco-based toy and game company University Games recently formed an alliance with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create a number of products based on the popular DC Comics’ comic book series and Cartoon Network’s hit animated show Justice League. Characters like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, [...]
‘Star Trek’ Beams...
Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness landed on top of the domestic box office...
Universal Releases New Clip...
Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
