May 19

Amazon Prime Video shares animated teaser for ‘Gulabo Sitabo’

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Amazon Prime Video has shared a sneak peek into one of its awaited digital premieres, Gulabo Sitabo on its social media handles. 

The animated teaser, is a quite a unique one featuring two goats with the narrator introducing the characters – Gulabo and Sitabo, who we understand are females. It piques the curiosity of the fans and audiences, who’ll now eagerly wait for the trailer which is going to be launched soon.

A slice-of-life dramedy, Gulabo Sitabo revolves around Mirza (Amitabh Bachchan) and Baankey (Ayushmann Khurrana ) – an uncommon duo who are like Tom and Jerry. They are unique and unmatched, friend and foe, naughty and smart, little and large, all things needed to create chaos!

A Rising Sun Films production, Gulabo Sitabo is directed by Shoojit Sircar, written by Juhi Chaturvedi and produced by Ronnie Lahiri and Sheel Kumar. The film will premiere worldwide on the 12 June 2020, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

It joins Shakuntala Devi, starring Vidya Balan and four other films to get a direct-to-OTT release, to be included into the Prime Video catalogue. These include Indian Original series like Four More Shots Please!, The Family Man, Mirzapur, Inside Edge and Made In Heaven, and other countless international films and series.

Prime members will be able to watch Gulabo Sitabo anywhere and anytime on the Prime Video app for smart TVs, mobile devices, Fire TV, Fire TV stick, Fire tablets, Apple TV, and so on. 

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May 19

YouTube kids channel, CoComelon now available on The Roku Channel 

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Roku and Treasure Studio has announced that CoComelon, the world’s most watched YouTube channel for kids, will launch on The Roku Channel. Under this partnership, CoComelon will expand reach outside YouTube for the first time.

Available under Kids & Family experience on The Roku Channel, CoComelon will expand access to its wildly popular selection of children’s songs and videos that help preschoolers learn letters, numbers, animal sounds, colours, and more.

Commenting on the collaboration, Treasure Studio creator-founder Jay Jeon said, “At CoComelon, we’re driven by being able to engage families with entertaining and educational content that makes universally relatable preschool moments fun. We are thrilled to launch with Roku today to make our popular programming available to Roku fans everywhere. Roku shares our deep commitment to creating positive content environments for children and brings a unique ability to engage and promote programming to audiences especially within The Roku Channel. This partnership is an important component of our strategy to be everywhere our audience is today.”

Roku users will be able to enjoy CoComelon favourites beginning today, 19 May including some of their most popular videos such as Bath Song, Yes, Yes Vegetables, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Wheels on the Bus, and Baby Shark Submarine, which have garnered billions of views.

The Kids & Family section on The Roku Channel, which launched last fall, is a popular destination for family friendly entertainment offering more than 20,000 TV episodes and movies. The Roku Channel is the home to more than 100,000 titles, including free movies and TV episodes as well as premium entertainment, and is one of the top channels on the Roku platform. In Q1, The Roku Channel reached households with an estimated 36 million people. It continues to grow substantially faster than the overall platform, with a greater than 100% increase in streaming hours year-over-year in Q1.

Added Roku Programming and Engagement VP Rob Holmes, “CoComelon is beloved by millions of children around the world and is a natural fit for our growing selection of content available to the millions of families who are increasingly turning to The Roku Channel every day for both entertainment and educational content. CoComelon joins a robust line-up of children’s programming within our Kids & Family experience and we could not be more excited to welcome their incredible streaming content to The Roku Channel.” 

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May 19

Telugu OTT paltform, Aha Kids to stream ‘Chhota Bheem’, ‘Mighty Raju’ and others 22 May onwards

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Streaming platform, Aha, Allu Aravind’s brainchild, is presently grabbing eyeballs of the Telugu audience. The only-Telugu VOD (video-on-demand) platform with a library of several movies and web shows, has now acquired rights for cartoon characters and animated content.

As per latest reports, Aha will stream 28 new Telugu cartoon series and films, including kids favourites Chhota Bheem, Mighty Raju and (dubbed  versions), 22 May onwards on the app and website under Aha Kids. 

Initially, Aha’s cliched content failed to attract and retain audience attention. Hence, Aravind planned to come up with engaging content and bigger budgets. If reports are to be believed, Aravind is in talks with megastar Chiranjeevi for a big budget web series.

Vijay Deverakonda, who is the brand ambassador of Aha, will also produce a show for the streaming platform. Few noted directors are also working for Aha as consultants, and the team is featuring new content. As of now, there are almost six shows on Aha of which Kotha Poradu has received decent response. It is not an easy task to launch only-Telugu digital platform, as it involves a lot of marketing too.

The OTT fever prevalent in most parts of the country, is now rising in the Southern states. So much so that, besides Aravind, Chiranjeevi’s daughter, Sushmitha is also going to launch an OTT Platform very soon. She is now making all the arrangements for it and is in plans to produce a number of interesting web-based movies.

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May 19

Experimental and experiential pays off. It won gold for Leviathan.

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May 19

From our experience, we suggest interfacing with Gunner! Motion Award recipient.

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May 19

NEWS: Justin Barnes took over our IG!

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May 19

Playboy Safe Six

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May 19

DBLG & Animade certainly got under our skin. Motion Award recipient.

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May 19

Washed Out, but far from washed up. Computer Team delivers for a Motion Award win.

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May 18

Pocket Aces’ new desi-animation channel, Jambo launches first web-series, ‘Namooney’

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Pocket Aces, digital entertainment company has launched India’s first desi-animation comedy web-series, Namooney, under their desi-animation channel Jambo, from 16 May on YouTube. Namooney comprises of 20 episodes. 

With the launch of the channel for young-adults and series, Pocket Aces has forayed into the business of animation dispelling the myth that animation is meant only for children. Jambo has already built a library of snackable animated videos which resonates with young adult audiences in the Hindi-belt across Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh.

Set in the fictional town of Bhandipur, Namooney portrays the relationship between two distinct personalities, Suresh (Sesh) and Neeraj, who happen to be hostel roommates at an engineering college, IIIT Bhandipur. While Sesh is a lazy, yet intelligent individual, Neeraj is a goody-two-shoes who is steadfast in his ways. They share the hostel room with a talking lizard, Ankit, who considers the room to be his family estate and is amused by Neeraj’s by-the-book approach to life. Hilarity ensues when Ankit provokes a bored Sesh to have fun at Neeraj’s expense. The series follows Neeraj as he comes to terms with living by himself for the first time while navigating the ups and downs of college-life, under the (mis)guidance of Sesh and Ankit.

Commenting about the channel and the series, Pocket Aces founder Ashwin Suresh said, “Desi-animation for the young adult market is grossly underserved. We believe the genre has incredible potential and is yet to be tapped in a meaningful manner. Staying true to our mission of solving boredom, we have launched Jambo to serve audiences in the Hindi-belt with their daily dose of animated comedy. With the upcoming launch of our first long-form IP, Namooney, we aim to rapidly grow our audience base, create a strong multi-season franchise, and develop a popular character universe.”

Jambo’s content is currently being distributed across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. The channel aims to produce four animated web-series in 2020. Namooney episodes are available on YouTube.

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