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Breakthrough Entertainment and Vast Entertainment continue to build strategic partnership

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Canada’s Breakthrough Entertainment and L.A.-based Vast Entertainment continue to build strategic partnership, delivering three heartwarming romances to launch an all-new holiday storytelling division. The companies continue to expand their development and distribution offerings with a growing slate of feel-good holiday romance films.   TORONTO and LOS ANGELES, July 21, 2021 – Breakthrough Entertainment and Vast[…..] […]

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How Ubisoft Connect Builds on a Decade of Online Evolution

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Ubisoft Connect debuted in late 2020, opening the door for cross-platform progression and saving and uniting Uplay’s digital storefront with the Ubisoft Club rewards program. It’s a unique service in the game industry, and it represents the culmination of 10 years of work on Ubisoft’s Online Services Platform, built and maintained by the internal Harbour[…..] […]

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Tim Erickson Joins Peanuts Worldwide Licensing Team

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Peanuts Worldwide, a WildBrain company, named Tim Erickson its executive vice president of brand to oversee the team that manages the brand’s global licensing business. Leading up to the Peanuts’ 75th anniversary in 2025, Erickson will collaborate with the family of creator Charles M. Schulz, the WildBrain content and management teams, and Peanuts Worldwide co-owner[…..] […]

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ABC Commercial and The Wiggles celebrate a 30-year distribution partnership

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July 20， ABC Commercial announced it has finalised an exclusive global license agreement with Australian children’s entertainment group The Wiggles, extending and celebrating an extraordinary partnership that has spanned 30 years, to date. The agreement will give the commercial arm of the Australian public broadcaster worldwide distribution rights to the group’s catalogue of premium television[…..] […]

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Replica Studios Announces Early Access to AI Voice Actors for Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator

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AI Voice Platform that enables perfectly timed lip-sync to digital humans will be showcased at upcoming Game Developers Conference BRISBANE, Australia — July 14, 2021 — Replica Studios, an artificial intelligence (AI) voice technology company, today revealed plans to integrate with Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator, allowing developers to give their MetaHumans unique sounding AI voices[…..] […]

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Princess Connect Pecorine Nendoroid is Almost Ready to Chow Down

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Good Smile Company announced that pre-orders are about to open for the Princess Connect Re: Dive Pecorine Nendoroid and went over the figure. Good Smile Company teased the debut of its next Princess Connect Re: Dive Nendoroid, a figure of heroine Pecorine, in its Kahotan Blog. Pre-orders for her will open on July 20, 2021,[…..] […]

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Mamoru Hosoda Says Hayao Miyazaki “Does Not Have Confidence In Himself As A Man”

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As he received plaudits at Cannes for his latest film Belle, Mamoru Hosoda, 53, vented frustrations about anime’s treatment of women, particularly Hayao Miyazaki’s depiction of young women and girls in his films. He is not a fan of how Miyazaki portrays young women. He threw shade on a certain “great master of animation” for[…..] […]

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Fourth Annual “Global Entertainment Showcase 2021” Held During Festival de Cannes Spotlights the International Film Scene

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Panel Featured Auteur Academy Founder Ali M. Aksu, Filmmakers Anna Fishbeyn and Eva Lanska, Filmmaker /Producer Bertrand Normand, and German American producer Christina Rose; Moderated by Awards Writer, Moviemarker Magazine, Rehna Azim On July 11, 2021 at 10 am PST (7 pm CET/France), Cloud 21 International (www.cloud21.com) and Kultura PR International (www.kulturapr.com) presented the fourth[…..] […]

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