Canada’s Nelvana And Japan’s Polygon Footage Signal Improvement Deal For Children’ Content material

Corus Leisure’s Nelvana has unveiled a brand new growth take care of Japanese manufacturing firm Polygon Footage to create Japanese animated content material for youths around the globe.

Listed here are the main points of the brand new growth deal:

• The association will search to make the most of Polygon’s Japanese market connections and data together with Nevlana’s expertise in co-producing to carry new content material from franchises like Bakugan, Beyblade, and Cardcaptor Sakura to a extra world viewers.
• Nelvana and Polygon will create new children’ programming which pulls on common current IPs in addition to new authentic content material, increasing the properties into areas together with life-style, publishing, and design.
• Animation business vet Rika Sasaki will act as an middleman for Nelvana and Polygon. Rika has years of expertise managing Japanese IP for world export from her earlier roles at d-rights Inc., ADK Emotion, and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions.
• Colin Bohm, government VP content material and company technique, Corus Leisure, stated in a launch: “Nelvana has loved super success through the years working with a number of notable Japanese content material corporations on such manufacturers as Bakugan, Beyblade, and Cardcaptor Sakura, and we’re excited to crew up with Polygon Footage to uncover the subsequent massive world hit. We’ve lengthy admired Polygon Footage, a very revolutionary and artistic studio, and we couldn’t be happier to be working collectively.”
• Shuzo Shiota, president of Polygon Footage, added: “Over the previous 10 plus years, Doug Murphy, president and CEO of Corus Leisure, Colin, and I’ve had many impassioned discussions about how we are able to synergize our strengths, to create world hits out of properties originating from Japan. With the assistance of Rika, I consider the time is lastly ripe to attain this purpose. I’m past excited on the prospect of what this partnership will carry.”

Cartoon Brew’s View: This expanded partnership sees Nalvana sticking to what it does greatest, working with common IP. In February, the corporate introduced it was partnering with Mattel Tv to reboot the Barney franchise with a cg animated sequence.