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Joanna Padovano Tong

Joanna Padovano Tong is the managing editor of World Screen. She can be reached at jpadovano@worldscreen.com.

Asian Firm Buys Talking Tom Creator Outfit7

January 23, 2017

NEW YORK: Outfit7, creator of the global hit Talking Tom and Friends, has sold 100 percent of the company to a consortium of investors from Asia, represented by United Luck Group Holdings, for $1 billion.

Book-Based Bear Hunt Movie Lands on Amazon

January 19, 2017

SEATTLE: Amazon Prime Video has become the exclusive premium subscription streaming home for the animated family film We're Going on a Bear Hunt, adapted from the book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury.

Miraculous Ladybug L&M Expands Across Europe

January 18, 2017

BARCELONA: Planeta Junior has revealed that licensing programs for Miraculous Ladybug, an animated series from ZAG, Method Animation, Toei Animation and SAMG, are expanding in a number of European territories.