April 6, 2018
The annual TV programming event showcased new released from Mattel, Fox and Planeta Junior, among others.
Highlights from this year’s show include:
Mattel
Creations
hosted the first MIPJunior World Premiere TV screening this year with “Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!”
Twentieth Century Fox
partnered with
Locksmith
Animation
to debut their inaugural project,
Ron’s Gone Wrong.
Giochi
Preziosi
,
Planeta
Junior
and
Kotoc
joined forces to premiere “Gormiti,” a new 3D CGI action comedy series, at MIPJunior.
Nelvana
partnered with
WeKids
and
Toon
Boom
Animation
to launch a kids’ animation incubator competition in China for the development and production of multiple kids’ animation properties.
Hoho Entertainment
partnered with Chinese media company
Wow
Dadi
Technology
to launch the preschool series “Cloudbabies” in mainland China.
Nickelodeon Asia
acquired the exclusive Pay TV and non-exclusive VOD rights to three animated shorts in Southeast Asia–“Cracké,” “Monster in a Box” and “Outopus.”
Studio 100
acquired the international distribution rights to the new live action series “Drop Dead Weird” and “Random and Whacky.”
Komixx
Entertainment
optioned the worldwide screen rights to the new, young adult thriller novel
Captured
by Kelly Anne Blount.
APC Kids
secured a host of new deals with broadcasters throughout Europe and Canada for its animated series “Kid-E-Cats.”
Sutikki
, the kids and family division of Bento Box Entertainment, partnered with
UYoung
in China for its preschool series “Moon and Me.”
BES Animation
and
Jetpack Distribution
inked several new platform deals for its animated series “Kitty is Not a Cat.”
Federation Kids & Family
and
Cottonwood Media
secured a score of broadcast deals for “The Ollie & Moon Show.”
MondoTV Iberoamerica
partnered with
Canal Panda
to broadcast the first season of the animated series “Robot Trains” in Europe and Africa.
MoMedia
signed several new deals that will see its series “Babar and the Adventures of Badou” and “Little Charmers” break into new territories.
BBC Worldwide
partnered with
Rede Globo
to create a Brazilian adaptation of “The Last Hours of Laura K.” The local version, titled “Prova do Crime” will air on Rede Globo beginning in December and will air in three 10-minute segments.
ProColombia
was on-site with 17 companies (including
Team Toon Studios, Estudio Marañacos
and
Creativio
, among many others) to showcase Colombia’s audiovisual and digital industry. Since the introduction of marketing programs aimed at promoting its activities internationally, the Colombian audiovisual industry has boomed with content spanning TV series, animated series, soap operas, reality shows, documentaries, cultural programs and more.
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