List of libraries owned by WildBrain
WildBrain's current library includes:[1][2]
- Decode Entertainment, including Freaky Stories, Waybuloo, and Angela Anaconda, excluding non-Canadian rights to Planet Sketch and Chop Socky Chooks, owned by Aardman Animations.
- Halifax Film Company’s library, including Lunar Jim.
- Cookie Jar Group and its predecessor CINAR, including programs such as Arthur (internationally only), and Caillou, it also includes the catalogs of:[3]
- DIC Entertainment (excluding some co-productions owned by third party companies, and also excluding most DIC shows produced in France, owned by Disney via BVS Entertainment as part of the Créativité et Développement library)[4][5]
- FilmFair including various Paddington Bear series and specials and other UK animated programs, such as The Wombles and The Adventures of Portland Bill.[6]
- Coliseum Entertainment, including Johnny Test
- Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's family program catalog including productions from Alliance Atlantis and Salter Street Films.[7]
- Epitome Pictures, including the catalog of its predecessor Playing With Time, Inc.[8][9]
- Iconix Brand Group's entertainment assets including[10]
- Peanuts Worldwide (41%), a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, including all Peanuts television specials and three television series, excluding the 2014 animated series, owned by Warner Bros. Animation via Cartoon Network in North America and Dall'Angelo Pictures internationally, and five Peanuts theatrical films, owned by Paramount Pictures and Disney via 20th Century Studios
- The Strawberry Shortcake brand, including television specials in the 1980s, the 2003 television series and a direct-to-video film.
- Nerd Corps Entertainment, including Rated A for Awesome and Slugterra, excluding co-productions such as Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 and Blaze and the Monster Machines.[11]
- Ragdoll Productions’ joint venture, Ragdoll Worldwide, including Rosie and Jim, Brum, Teletubbies, Boohbah, and In the Night Garden..., excluding the rights to Pob's Programme and Playbox, owned by the main Ragdoll Productions studio.[12]
- Studio B Productions, including Martha Speaks (internationally only) and Kid vs. Kat, but excluding the rights to co-productions such as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Super Supremes Nursery Rhymes and The Legend of Frosty the Snowman.[13][14][15]
- The first incarnation of WildBrain, including Yo Gabba Gabba!, excluding co-productions with other companies.[16]
- Global distribution rights to select Mattel Television programs including Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, Little People and Polly Pocket.[17]
- Global distribution rights to the Jay Ward Productions portfolio including The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Hoppity Hooper, and George of the Jungle, excluding material produced by DreamWorks Animation and/or DreamWorks Classics, the 1999 film adaptation of Dudley Do-Right, the 2000 film adaptation of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, and the 2014 film adaptation of Mr. Peabody and Sherman, which are owned by Universal Television and Universal Pictures respectively, and the 1997 film adaptation of George of the Jungle, owned by Walt Disney Pictures
See also
References
- "Studios - In Production". WildBrain. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- "Distribution". WildBrain. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- Sturgeon, Jamie (2012-08-20). "DHX Media acquires Cookie Jar to create kids content power". Financial Post. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- "Cookie Jar, DIC Entertainment to Merge". Broadcasting & Cable. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- "COOKIE JAR ENTERTAINMENT EXPANDS BRAND PORTFOLIO, TALENT AND GLOBAL REACH WITH CLOSING OF DIC TRANSACTION". Cookie Jar Group. 2008-07-23. Archived from the original on 2009-05-31. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
- "CINAR Completes Acquisition of FilmFair" (Press release). CINAR Films, Inc. 26 November 1996. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
- "DHX MEDIA ACQUIRES LIBRARY OF CHILDREN'S AND FAMILY TV CONTENT". DHX Media.
- "DHX Media Acquires 'Degrassi' Producer Epitome". www.dhxmedia.com. DHX Media. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- Houpt, Simon. "DHX Media Buys Degrassi TV Studio". www.theglobeandmail.com. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- "DHX Media Acquires 'Peanuts' in $345 Million Purchase of Iconix". Variety. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- "Canada's DHX Media to Acquire Nerd Corps". Toonzone. 2 December 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- "Teletubbies owner bought by Canadian firm DHX Media". The Guardian (London). 16 September 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- DHX Media (December 4, 2007). "DHX Media acquires Studio B Productions Inc" (Press release). Canada Newswire. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- Ball, Ryan (December 5, 2007). "DHX Media Acquires Studio B Prods". Animation Magazine. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- Loveday, Samantha (December 4, 2007). "DHX Media buys up Studio B". Licensing.biz. Archived from the original on 2011-02-07. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- Schneider, Michael (September 14, 2010). "DHX Media acquires Wildbrain". Variety. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- "DHX Media and Mattel Launch Partnership on Kids Content". DHX Media. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
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