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TheSoul Publishing’s Family-Friendly Content Comes to Global Safe Streaming Platform Kidoodle.TV

TheSoul Publishing announced that its family-friendly content will now reach new audiences through its partnership with the free kid’s Safe Streaming platform Kidoodle.TV. Beginning this month, three of The Soul’s popular channels will be featured across the Kidoodle.TV service in both English and Spanish:

5-Minute Crafts, the most-watched DIY digital brand in the world, with over 400 million social media subscribers.

Slick Slime Sam – Available in 17 languages and averaging over 500 million monthly views on YouTube, Sam is pink, hilarious and shares clever crafts, engaging DIYs, and fun cooking tips for kids.

Baby Zoo – The fast-growing kid’s animation brand with hundreds of millions of minutes viewed each month on YouTube.

Bonnie Arnold Inks Overall Deal with WildBrain to Spearhead Multiple Projects

WildBrain, a global leader in kids’ and family entertainment, has signed an overall “first look” deal with acclaimed producer Bonnie Arnold (How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story) in a move that builds on the company’s commitment to working with the industry’s best creative talent. Academy Award- and BAFTA-nominated Arnold will spearhead numerous episodic projects, TV specials and features for WildBrain. Initial projects include Which Way to Anywhere, the latest novel from Cressida Cowell, the bestselling author of the How to Train Your Dragon series, as well as Cowell’s beloved Emily Brown picture books. WildBrain has exclusively optioned both properties from Cowell.

Entertainment Licensing News

MGM Launches Game Changing AI-Driven Clip Locator, Enabling Marketers, Filmmakers to Quickly Source Clips

MGM has announced the launch of the MGM Clip Locator, an innovative, AI-driven solution that will enable marketers and filmmakers to quickly surface and source clips, reducing hours of research to just a few minutes. MGM is the first Hollywood studio to offer this type of platform, and paired with its vast library of content, the MGM Clip Locator is an absolute treasure trove for those researching clips for their creative endeavors.

Rainbow High Competition, Rainbow Vision, Culminates with Season Finale and Roblox Livetopia Collaboration

Rainbow High, the leading global fashion doll brand and hit animated YouTube series from MGA Entertainment(MGA), takes classic, friendly high school rivalry to the next level with the most highly-anticipated competition of the year, Rainbow Vision. Introduced earlier this year via the animated series and new product launches, the friendly rivalry between fine arts schools Rainbow High and Shadow High will reach new heights in the series and beyond this Fall. In weeks to come, fans can look forward to a shocking season finale, as well as several new ways to engage with the brand, including a first-ever Rainbow High streaming music album and the brand’s first foray into the online gaming platform, Roblox, via a Livetopia integration.

CMC Pictures Taps Striker Entertainment for Worldwide Licensing and Merchandizing for “Meg 2: the Trench”

CMC Pictures, a leading Chinese entertainment company engaged in the development, production, marketing, promotion, domestic and international distribution of live-action and animation films, has tapped Striker Entertainment LLC, a leading independent entertainment licensing agency, to handle worldwide licensing and merchandising for “Meg 2: The Trench”, the much anticipated sequel to the wildly successful original motion picture, The Meg, released in late Summer 2018. Striker Entertainment will oversee multiple categories for the hugely popular underwater megalodon franchise, including toys and collectibles, lifestyle products, publishing, digital collectibles, gaming, and more.

Preschool Show ‘Dino Ranch’ Expands with Tricero-tastic Publishing from Scholastic

This fall, Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, and Boat Rocker released the fifth and sixth titles in their publishing program based on the entertainment company’s hit preschool series Dino Ranch, where the Wild West meets prehistoric times. Pterodactyl Attack!, a new 8×8 storybook, and a Level 1 reader titled Home on the Ranch became widely available in September and joined four previously published titles, including a Water Wonder novelty book. The Scholastic publishing program is geared to ages 3 to 8, and combines two kid-favorite themes, dinosaurs and cowboys, for sureto-please stories.

Xilam Animation and Youku Journey into New Season of ‘Lupin’s Tales’

Academy Award-nominated French animation studio Xilam Animation is extending its partnership with Youku, the online video and streaming platform of Alibaba Group, for a new season of the popular preschool 2D and 3D animated series Lupin’s Tales. The new series will also be available on France Télévisions (France). Currently in production, the upcoming season of Lupin’s Tales will consist of 78 x 7’ episodes and is set to launch on Youku and France Télévisions in early 2024.

Penguin Announces ODEON Partnership to Celebrate The Snowman and The Snowman and the Snowdog Anniversaries

To celebrate 40 years of The Snowman and 10 years of The Snowman and the Snowdog film adaptations, Penguin Ventures (the licensing and consumer products division of Penguin Random House Children’s) has partnered with ODEON to bring the festive films to cinemas nationwide this winter. The hour-long theatrical screening will offer families the chance to experience the magic of The World of The Snowman like never before, with a double-bill of both film adaptions, at ODEON cinemas this festive season. Inspired by the late Raymond Briggs’ timeless picture book, The Snowman, these iconic characters continue to be an intrinsic part of family celebrations each Christmas.

WildBrain Secures Global Distribution Rights for New Animated Comedy-Adventure Series ‘Saving Me’

WildBrain, a global leader in kids’ and family entertainment, has secured worldwide distribution rights for seasons one and two of the brand-new 2D-animated comedy-adventure series, Saving Me (20×22’ total). Produced by Montreal’s Sphere Animation in partnership with BYUtv, the series is currently available for delivery. What would you tell your 11-year-old self if you had the chance? Saving Me is the story of a tech billionaire from the distant future who has messed up his life, relationships and the world, but who now has the opportunity to reinvent his life and the future by going back in time to team up with…himself.