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SINGAPORE: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Asia is expanding its collaboration with Vietnamese multimedia communication group International Media Corp. (IMC) to launch a Nickelodeon-branded block on IMC’s free-to-air channel YouTV.

HÖHENKIRCHEN/MUNICH: m4e and publisher Panini have renewed their contract for the kids’ series Mia and me for three more years until 2020.

PAWTUCKET: Net revenues for the second quarter of 2016 grew 10 percent at Hasbro to $878.9 million, driven by strong sales for its Disney Princess and Frozen dolls and its Star Wars action figures.

A spotlight on the French animation studio co-founded by Guillaume Hellouin and Corinne Kouper in 2005.

BURBANK: Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Entertainment are expanding the licensing and merchandising program for DC Super Hero Girls into more than 35 countries around the world.

MIAMI: Discovery Family Channel has scheduled daily marathons of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in the week leading up to International Friendship Day on July 30.

LONDON: Acamar Films has launched a game-based app for its animated preschool property, Bing.

BOCA RATON/MANILA: Grom Social parent company Grom Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Top Draw Animation (TDA), an award-winning Filipino production company.

BURBANK: Disney Channel has lined up a sophomore season of Descendants: Wicked World, an animated short-form series based on the hit film about the offspring of Disney villains.

LONDON: Brand Activation Consulting, Zodiak Kids’s consumer products agent for Floogals in the U.S., has secured Just Play as the master toy partner in the U.S. and Canada.