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Hub Gives ‘Pony’ Fans Pick for Mare-A-Thon
Discovery/Hasbro’s network The Hub is offering fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic a very special Valentine this year as they open up online voting for favorite episodes to be run during the My Little Pony Fan Favorites Mare-A-Thon on Valentine’s Day weekend. The five-hour programming marathon—which will debut [...]
Five Hasbro Series Set for Turkey’s ATV
Hasbro Studios, the Los Angeles-based production and distribution division of Hasbro, Inc, has sealed a deal to supply five of their new animated kids’ series based on their popular franchises to ATV’s new Turkish kids network, Minika. The Hasbro-produced series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Adventures of Chuck [...]
Chorion Chairman Waheed Alli Steps Down
Chairman of U.K. property house Chorion Waheed Alli has resigned after the business failed to renegotiate banking deals to fix its significant debt burden, reports The Guardian. William Astor, the deputy chairman of the company is also leaving the company, which holds the rights to Noddy, Mr. Men and the [...]
‘Transformers’ Rolls Over Comedy Competition
The robots in disguise remained the top draw at the box office for the second week in a row as Transformers: Dark of the Moon became the year’s top-grossing movie. Based on the Hasbro toys and classic 1980s animated TV series, the third film in Michael Bay’s Transformers series grossed [...]
‘Transformers’ Morphs into Box Office Monster
We might need to roll out a new definition for blockbuster and call it Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The movie, based on the Hasbro toys and classic 1980s animated TV series, had an incredible debut at the box office, taking in $116 million in domestic ticket sales over the [...]
First-day Take of $37M for ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
The visual-effects extravaganza Transformers: Dark of the Moon debuted Wednesday to about $37 million in ticket sales, marking the best debut of the year for any film. Based on the popular Hasbro toys and classic 1980s animated series, the third film in the Transformers franchise earned about $8 million of [...]
The ‘Toy Story’ Toy That Got Away
Tales From the Toon Trenches: From the Files of Michael Mallory Editor’s Note: Author and journalist Michael Mallory has been covering the animation and visual effects scene for over two decades. Beginning today, he looks back at some of his earlier scoops and shares some of his “untold stories” with [...]
Rights Sold for New ‘Cabbage Patch Kids’ TV Special
Producer Galen Walker has acquired the rights to animated the beloved toys The Cabbage Patch Kids for a new TV special, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The producer, who is producing a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie for Paramount, has a script in the works for an animated [...]
Kidscreen’s iKids Event Spotlights Tyke App Trends
Did you know that by 2015, there will be 15 billion network-connected devices (about two per person) in use around the world? Or that 14 out of the top 25 apps in the U.S. are child-friendly? These handy factoids and much more timely stats regarding the booming children’s app market [...]
Hasbro, Corus Strike Output Deal
Hasbro Studios and Canada’s Corus Entertainment have agreed to a comprehensive output deal for programming and marketing. The deal covers a number of Hasbro-produced series such as Transformers Prime, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, G.I. Joe: Renegades, The Adventures of Chuck and Friends and Pound Puppies, airing on Corus [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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