DeAPlaneta Leisure has acquired the catalog of children’ leisure firm BRB Internacional, based in 1972 by the late Claudio Biern Boyd. The acquisition expands DeAPlaneta’s personal portfolio of evergreen sequence — together with Heidi, Lady of the Alps; 3000 Leagues in Search of Mom and Maya the Bee — with the addition of memorable properties corresponding to Across the World with Willy Fog, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and The World of David the Gnome.
The deal consists of 1,000 30-minute animated sequence and have movies in dozens of languages, strengthening DeAPlaneta’s place throughout new content material fashions corresponding to FAST channels and worldwide AVOD platforms. The acquisition of BRB Internacional’s catalog not solely consists of broadcast rights for the present titles, but additionally working licenses to develop new exhibits and digital content material, permitting DeAPlaneta to rework these well-liked manufacturers into mass-market international leisure IPs.
“Our purpose is to refresh and relaunch these well-known audiovisual choices utilizing new codecs and progressive digital creation methods, aiming to place them again on the map and introduce them to new audiences,” notes Diego Ibáñez, Chief Model Officer of DeAPlaneta Ent.
Along with the aforementioned basic BRB toons, the acquisition consists of among the studio’s most up-to-date international hits, corresponding to Bernard Bear — a fan favourite in Asian markets and on digital media. Final November, the 2 Bernard Bear YouTube channels drew a record-breaking 21.4 million views and eight.1 million single viewers.
On launch, BRB’s hottest productions broke viewer information in Spain, and in lots of different nations. The World of David the Gnome was a worldwide success, and was the primary European sequence broadcast on a youngsters’s channel in U.S. Youngsters proceed to narrate to those characters, and join with them on tv channels around the globe and on streaming platforms, together with YouTube, the place multi-brand channels like BRB and Animakids have reached 11 million viewers and over 5 million single viewers.
