Callaway Digital Arts and Sesame Workshop announce the launch of the app “The Great Cookie Thief,” starring Sesame Street's Cookie Monster.

The Vladar Co. and Arcana Comics are teaming up to produce a feature film version of the forthcoming graphic novel, “HeadSmash.”

Bron Studios announces the launch of Bron Animation to develop and produce original kid’s animated intellectual properties for television and film starting with animated series “Mighty Mighty Monsters.”

DQ Entertainment announces production on a $45 million stereoscopic 3D animated feature film based on Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale “The Jungle Book.”

The Jim Henson Company becomes licensing agent for FROG AND TOAD in the U.S. and Canada through a deal with HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Nelvana Enterprises and The Clifford Ross Company announced a partnership agreement with New York-based toy design company YOTTOY Productions to develop soft toys inspired by the Babar literary character.

Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered spacescapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died.

Global brand management firm Evolution and Rollman Entertainment have partnered with creator Kevin Grevioux on the rights to “Monstroids,” Grevioux’s fresh twist on classic monsters from the upcoming Astounding Comics & Darkstorm Studios comic book series.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the beloved “Berenstain Bears.”

Odyssey Pictures has put out a sneak peek at some of the artwork for the forthcoming animated feature, “Hank the Cowdog,” based on the beloved children’s literary franchise by John R. Erickson.