Licensing News
By Staff -- Playthings, 10/1/2005
Geneon Entertainment, Long Beach, Calif., entered into an agreement to provide licensed merchandise for anime properties in an exclusive 90-day window to specialty retailer Hot Topic. T-shirts, stickers and buttons for Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Fafner, Jubei Chan 2 and R.O.D.
Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Burbank, Calif., Products is partnering with Milkshake Productions and Goal Ltd., to represent the GOAL! trilogy of football films.The deal gives Warner Bros. Consumer Products merchandise rights for the first two films as well as an option for the third.
The first movie launched on September 30, and is planned for a March 2006 release in the U.S. The second is due for release at the end of May 2006, just before the FIFA World Cup 2006.
Playmates Toys, Costa Mesa, Calif., will launch new Strawberry Shortcake dolls and toys next year as the brand's master toy licensee.
Strawberry Shortcake's lineup of marketing partners includes Fox Home Entertainment, which has already sold more than six and a half million Strawberry Shortcake DVDs .
The studio will release three specials on home video in 2006 and a Strawberry Shortcake feature movie.
