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Toonz Media Group has partnered with Leadbelly Productions to co-produce the new animated IP Creepy Candy, with NXT GEN Brand Marketing on board to develop a consumer products program.

OddBot has optioned the rights to adapt The Cardboard Kingdom, Séance Tea Party and The Okay Witch graphic novels into animated series.

WildBrain is working with the Peacock streaming platform to produce 52 new 11-minute episodes of the animated series Caillou.

A Parent Media Co. (APMC), owner of kids’ Safe Streaming services Kidoodle.TV, Glitch+ and Safe Exchange, has closed an equity financing round with TriWest Capital Partners, raising over C$80 million ($62 million) of investment capital to date and is now worth over C$600 million ($463 million).

Surge Licensing has signed an agreement with the live tour company Cut & Mustard to bring YouTube’s Spy Ninjas to more than 30 cities across the U.S.

Anish Mehta has stepped down as CEO of the Indian animation studio Cosmos-Maya after ten years in the role.

WildBrain has named Rita Middleton, CEO and interim CFO of International Solar Solutions, as an independent director of the company.

Australian distributor ABC Commercial has sold the new action-comedy series Born to Spy to the BBC to air on BBC iPlayer beginning June 29.

The video game based on Mondo TV Studios’ MeteoHeroes is set to be featured in the Campus Experience Football and Responsible Gaming kids' summer camp taking place at the Real Madrid training complex.

The Malaysian animation house Lil Critter Workshop (LCW) is expanding its global footprint with the establishment of an animation studio in the U.K.