Cyber Group Studios Inks Interactive Deal for Zorro

MATANE/LOS ANGELES/PARIS: Groupe PVP and Cyber Group Studios have signed a joint worldwide license agreement with Zorro Productions for the interactive rights for Zorro the Chronicles.

The agreement will see Groupe PVP develop, either alone or with partners, interactive games for consoles such as PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox, as well as applications for iOS, Windows and Android. Zorro the Chronicles is a 26-episode CGI production featuring the famous masked hero. The 22-minute episodes are already airing in more than 100 territories on all continents.

Pierre Sissmann, the chairman and CEO of Cyber Group Studios, said, “Ahead of Zorro the Chronicles’ second season, it is a real pleasure to partner once again with Zorro Productions Inc. and Groupe PVP, to create groundbreaking interactive games using the assets we have created for the television series.”

Francois Trudel, executive producer and VP of international affairs at Groupe PVP, stated, “This is an important step for us as a company and I thank both John Gertz at Zorro Productions Inc. and Pierre Sissmann at Cyber Group Studios to have trusted us with this prestigious IP. I will now be looking for international partners to pursue an ambitious creation plan linked to this great property.”

John Gertz, the president of Zorro Productions, commented, “Zorro is a brand whose interactive life started long ago with games for the Atari, Nintendo and other platforms. We are very excited to see that the new CG-animated series Zorro the Chronicles will now be adapted for the new consoles of the 21st century.”