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Toonz CEO P. Jayakumar has announced that it will produce a new animated series with world-class creator Steve Lyons. The company has also partnered with Emmy Award-winning Animation industry veteran Bill Schultz to produce the series, as well as distribute a new slate of high quality programs to help grow its overall Kids & Family business, including distribution opportunities for its worldwide TV distribution company which is headed up by LA based, President of Distribution, Matt Cooperstein.
Also Toonz Entertainment USA, the distribution division of the Toonz Group has announced that they have signed a deal with Auckland-based cartoon studio, Mukpuddy, which give the distributor the highly sought after multi-platform distribution rights to library of cartoon short content. For the first time ever, the incredible hilariously funny Sparkle Friends cartoon shorts will available to the worldwide market. Sparkle Friends produced for New Zealands long running childrens show What Now, stars the What Now presenters as kids, their pet gorilla and also a magical gunge spewing creature called Gungi. Each episode of approximately 3 min duration was telecasted in TV2 in New Zealand and the...