Cookie Jar and DiC To Merge

To answer dth1971's question:

WGBH Boston has all American rights to Arthur (They co-produce and finance it), while Cookie Jar owns Arthur everywhere else.


And that reminds me:

Although Cookie Jar's library is pretty colassal, there are a handful of shows that DiC and CINAR has produced probably or aren't at all owned by Cookie Jar at all (For those who want said show to appear on Jaroo and CookieJarTV.com) (I may need some help on this):

Alienators (I think Cookie Jar owns some rights)
The Chipmunks (Badgasardian owns the property)
Ring Raiders (I'm kinda clueless)
Dinosaucers (Sony?)
Night Hood (I think Cookie Jar owns some rights to this show)
Cat Tales (Don't know)
Nanoboy (Cookie Jar only distribute the show in Canada
The Real Ghostbusters (Sony)
The Karate Kid (Sony)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (MGM)
Kissyfur (NBC Universal)
Albert The 5th Musketeer (France)
Stargate: Infinity (I think Cookie Jar owns the rights in North America, with MGM/Fox having the rights elsewhere)
Camp Candy (I think Disney, due to Saban's involvement)
Captain Planet (Time Warner)
Young Robin Hood (Time Warner)
Extreme Dinosaurs (BKN, odd since DiC produced Street Sharks)
The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin (Not sure)


So, outside of the American Greetings properties (although Cookie Jar owns the rights to the shows), everything that's CINAR, FilmFair Animation and DiC Entertainment is owned by Cookie Jar Group.
 
Actually, Cookie Jar is the series' animation company and co-producer of the series. But yeah, WGBH manages the series domestically.

I can clear up some of the list:

Evolution: Alienators
Owned by Dreamworks Pictures

The Chipmunks
Badgasardian does own the property and has licensed distribution to Paramount Home Entertainment

Ring Raiders
Another series outright owned by Cookie Jar. DiC produced the series while Those Characters From Cleveland (American Greetings) licenced and co-developed the characters with DiC.

Dinosaucers
Sony Pictures Family Entertainment owns this series lock, stock, and barrel, just like The Real Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, and a piece of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (including the Hanna-Barbera-produced much superior first season that actually had Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and George Carlin playing Ted, Bill, and Rufus, respectedly) and Stargate: Infinity via MGM (Sony owns a small yet significant stake in MGM)

Night Hood
Owned outright by Cookie Jar. Yeah, it's based on Arsene Lupin, but they created and own the series.

Kissyfur
Universal Media Studios, a division of NBC Universal (it's on their international page)

Albert The 5th Musketeer
Cookie Jar, France 3, and Canal+ all own this series

Nanoboy
Scrawl Studios and AGOGO Entertainment. Oh, and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (yup, it's partially owned by the government of Singapore)

Camp Candy
Sensation Animation/BVS Entertainment, a division of The Walt Disney Company

Captain Planet
Turner Entertainment, a division of Time Warner

Young Robin Hood
Cookie Jar owns this one outright, Hanna-Barbera just distributed it domestically.

The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin:
While the characters are outright owned by Ken Forsse, creator of the property, the series' distribution is handled by DLT Entertainment.
 
Nelvana's not for sale. They are essentially a part of Corus Entertainment, the Canadian equivalent of Time Warner and Viacom combined. They'll be the ones buying studios, not the other way around.

And your list is way off:

1. Time Warner (Embarrassingly huge, totally underused)

2. The Walt Disney Company (never underestimate the power of the Mouse; they sold a lot, but they're still huge, especially with their own original titles, the Fox Kids/Saban library, the Miramax film releases, domestic rights to Studio Ghibli films, and Muppet Babies)

3. Entertainment Rights (this company is huge, and the titles and properties they own, including UPA, Jay Ward, Rankin/Bass, Total Television, Filmation, and Harvey titles, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Little Golden Book, Postman Pat, Lamb Chop, The Lone Ranger, Turok, Waldo/Wally, and others would blow you away)

4. Cookie Jar (now includes DiC and their 33.3% stake in KidsCo)

5. Toei Animation (they're . . . big; quit thinking domestic and think global. Toei is huge, and they're still cranking out hit after hit and still sitting on a rather large 40+ year library)

6. Sony Pictures Entertainment (consider this: they pretty much have the worldwide media rights to Spider-Man that Marvel doesn't own, they own Aniplex, they're the majority owner and operator of Animax [a global animation brand that's everywhere BUT the United States], and has a considerable library of films and shows they own and/or licensed globally; they're an unappreciated and largely unknown power)

7. Corus Entertainment (includes Nelvana [and non-US distribution rights to Fairly Oddparents, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, Danny Phantom, and Backyardigans] and stakes in global children's entertainment brands [all of YTV and Treehouse and a 50% stake in Teletoon and Teletoon Retro in Canada, a stake in qubo in the United States, and a 33.3% stake in KidsCo everywhere else in the world]; yeah, Corus outranks Viacom)

8. Viacom (aside from Nickelodeon's library of originals [don't forget to include the Nick Jr. animated shows, including The Adventures of the Little Koala, which Viacom still owns], Viacom owns MTV Animation, Paramount Pictures' animated releases, will serve as a distributor and programmer of some of Marvel's upcoming animated series, and a few others)

9. News Corporation (their animation library isn't that huge if you actually sat down and looked at what they currently have, but with their recent Inkubation endeavor as well as their ownership stake in Blue Sky, they're poised to become a major, major powerhouse in the decades to come, especially if they diverse their offerings).

10. 4Kids Entertainment (they don't really own anything, but rather a domestic distributor and licensor of many things, including the projects they co-produce).
 
Well, I already know that.




Thanks.

I think it's strange that Cookie Jar lists Alienators and Stargate on their library page, yet don't make a sub-page for Albert, Ring Raiders, Young Robin Hood or Night Hood (Although their library page do update with a few more shows every now and again).

Any word on the Madeline specials (by CINAR, not DiC) being owned by Cookie Jar as well?
 
Well, Cookie Jar didn't have a real library page like they do now, and that's based on the one originally on the DiC page, which is why the library is more DiC-heavy than Cinar/Cookie Jar heavy, thus the absence of some older Cinar/Cookie Jar titles.

(BTW, for those just joining in the conversation, Cinar IBECAME Cookie Jar)

Then again, I think a lot of the Cookie Jar library is disputed. Evolution: Alienators was based on a Dreamworks film, but DiC may have distribution rights to the series, thus its placement on the page. Same deal with Stargate. On the flipside of that, Cookie Jar owns Young Robin Hood, but Hanna-Barbera owns distribution rights to the series internationally.

Don't worry about Ring Raiders. It's only five episodes and based on a toyline that had small planes connected to rings. One of the worst toylines ever made. No wonder Mattel never followed up on it in recent years (they own Matchbox, the manufacturers of the toys).

Here's the thing. The original Madeline specials WERE a cooperation between DiC and Cinar almost 20 years before the two units became one, so, yeah, they're all owned by Cookie Jar. The only animated Madeline productions NOT owned by Cookie Jar are the Rembrandt Films shorts directed by Gene Deitch and the '52 short produced by UPA, now owned by Boomerang Media (an entertainment group that recently bought Entertainment Rights, who previously bought UPA's original owners, Classic Media, whose founders recently founded Boomerang Media [wow, talk about "coming back to you!"])
 
Funny about the Madeline specials, I thought it was Cinar and France Animation that produced the specials (Like Busy World, Night Hood, Albert and such). And about ER, Cookie Jar wanted to buyout ER in January.

One more question, does Cookie Jar own the Patrol 03 series, or does Taffy Entertainment?

And although Cookie Jar recently added some of its Cinar Europe produced shows (The Twins, Treasure (the BBC primetime series), The Baskervilles (co-produced with Alphanim, a studio founded by an employee of Cinar), Cookie Jar is still missing a handful of their Cinar/DiC/Filmfair library (Like CreepSchool, a Cinar series owned by Cookie Jar and Alphanim).
 
does the DIC, cookie jar merger do anything for their kewlopolis block? or will it just remain a E/I block that is seemingly giving up? because that block is consistently competing for 3rd place among broadcast saturday mornings...maybe the new inspector gadget could help out?
 
Kewlopolis will remain an E/I block, because that's all CBS wants it to be. I'm sure Cookie Jar would like to show more and better things, but that's not for them to decide. CBS only leases that time out to them because they want a solution to the E/I problem that will satisfy their stations demands.
 
Will American Greetings agree to the DIC/Cookie Jar merger and allow Cookie Jar to release the DIC Get Along Gang on DVD finally?

Also: After the DIC/Cookie Jar merger, would Arthur leave PBS Kids and move to the CBS Kewlopolis block on weekends?
 
MU2304, for last season's KEWLopolis (Fall 2008), it only had Cookie Jar replacing the DiC closing logos on DiC shows (The reason they did that is because they absorbed DiC and it wouldn't make sense to use the DiC name). One of those reasons is because:


A. When Cookie Jar and DiC were in final talks of merging in June (not this June), DiC and CBS had already set a schedule of the same exact shows.

B. Dino Squad and Sushi Pack had to air the other 13 episodes (produced in 2007) of their respective seasons, Care Bears had episodes produced in 2008. I think Horseland had a 52 episode order, I don't know. But Cake and Strawberry Shortcake for some reason had to stay also. So when Cookie Jar bought out DiC, the only thing they could do was to plaster their logo on the DiC shows.
 
Oh i gotcha, so does that essentially mean that their block is in a holding pattern until they burn through those episodes? or do they have the opportunity to introduce some new shows this season?
 
1. Unforrtunately, that isn't DIC's or Cookie Jar's call. On a related note, S'More Entertainment (who planned to release the show) was reportedly given no reason for the decision, and AG isn't talking.

2. Probably not. It will likely still air on PBS stations, merger or not.
 
Cookie Jar will have some new shows this fall. And Sushi Pack and Dino Squad to my knowledge had finished their runs in February and December.
 
Update everyone!! You know how the merger was halted by American Greetings over dispute about Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake?

Well...

I read in yesterday's National Post that Cookie Jar Group accepted to pay American Greetings Corp $195 million to buy the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake properties outright.

So the merger is pretty much a done deal! Look out Animation World...the Canadians are aiming for global domination :p

The article also states that Cookie Jar has announced an agreement with Hasbro for Strawberry Shortcake toys next year. A television serie that was planned by AG will also remain in development.
 
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