Sara Alessi

LONDON: Rocket Licensing has secured additional U.K. licensees for the upcoming Sony Pictures movie Smurfs: Lost Village, which will make its theatrical debut on March 31.

CULVER CITY/LONDON: Sony's Columbia Pictures has teamed up with Frederick Warne & Co., part of Penguin Random House UK, for Peter Rabbit, the first live-action and CG film based on the classic book series.

DALLAS: The Jim Henson Company has appointed Snaptoys as the master toy licensee for the preschool series Word Party.

LONDON: Cartoon Network EMEA has secured more than 30 licensing partners for The Powerpuff Girls reboot, representing the brand’s first licensees in the region.

HÖHENKIRCHEN/MUNICH/HAMBURG: m4e and Edel Germany are extending their cooperation and have closed a multiyear output deal covering the distribution of audio plays on CD within Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

HALIFAX: Amazon Prime Video in the U.K. and Germany has licensed more than three-dozen DHX Media kids’ shows, including the new and classic Teletubbies series.

MELBOURNE: Jetpack Distribution has acquired rights to distribute BES Animation’s new series Kitty is Not a Cat internationally, excluding in the Asia-Pacific region.

REDWOOD CITY/NEW YORK: Epic! has teamed up with Sesame Workshop to bring Sesame Street content to its subscribers for the first time.

MANILA: Cartoon Network’s hit shows We Bare Bears and The Powerpuff Girls are due to air on TV5 in the Philippines.

NEW YORK: 4K Media has inked a deal with Nickelodeon in Germany to premiere the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V.