HIT Entertainment, a leading provider of quality children’s entertainment, is pleased to announce three new publishing deals for Barney, Thomas & Friends, and for the first time, Angelina Ballerina, in Latin America.
It’s a pillow, it’s a pet, it’s a Thomas the Tank Engine Pillow Pet!
The nation’s favourite little blue engine has bridges to cross and tracks to uncover in the exciting new adventures featured in brand new DVD Thomas & Friends: ‘Wobbly Wheels & Whistles'.
Zynga, the producer of FARMVILLE and many other Facebook games, has bought Newtoy, a developer of iPhones, iPods and iPads games, according The Hollywood Reporter.
All aboard! Steaming out of the station, HIT Entertainment announces the launch of a brand new Thomas & Friends™ application, Thomas Tilt and Go, for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
HIT Entertainment, a leading provider of quality children's entertainment and owner of the world's #1 preschool brand, Thomas & Friends, is marking Thomas & Friends' 65th anniversary with all new digital extensions.
The Upper Deck Company, in conjunction with HIT Entertainment, is pleased to announce that it has just released the first trading cards of the #1 preschool property and long-running television show Thomas & Friends.
Children's book character Thomas the Tank Engine from the THOMAS & FRIENDS series in the 1940s is gearing up for the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is breaking the news that Warner Bros. and Facebook have inked a deal sync friends on the social networking site with Warner's Blu-ray releases, beginning with WATCHMEN: DIRECTOR'S CUT. Disc owners will utilize BD-Live to simultaneously view the film with their friends and make comments.
14 April 2009, London & Beijing -- HIT Entertainment, one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment producers and rights owners has announced the launch of an all new THOMAS & FRIENDS website in China. www.thomasandfriends.cn launched this month in Chinese.
The THOMAS & FRIENDS global website attracts more than 30 million visitors each month and is one of the most popular websites for preschool properties in the world.
The well-known Italian publishing group De Agostini is to show FRIENDS AND HEROES on their newly launched children's channel DeAKids. Broadcast on the Sky satellite, Friends and Heroes has been dubbed into Italian for its debut on DeAKids.
HIT Ent. is lining up its biggest retail promotion ever for THOMAS & FRIENDS this Easter.
THOMAS & FRIENDS has launched at Hamley's as part of the famous toy store's Cartoon Crazy promotion with themed in-store activity and a special THOMAS & FRIENDS-themed window. The promotion showcases new product lines from TOMY, Golden Bear and RC2 as well as in-store competitions to win tickets to Thomas Land as part of the U.K. theme park's first anniversary celebrations. The promotion runs until May 11 in Hamley's Regent Street and Dumfries, Ireland stores.
Preschool property, THOMAS & FRIENDS continues its phenomenal publishing success with U.K. book sales up 10 percent in 2008.
First published in 1945 in a series of classic story books entitled THE RAILWAY SERIES, written by The Reverend W. Awdry, THOMAS & FRIENDS has sold more than 200 million books globally to date. Egmont UK has been working alongside rights owner and producer, HIT Ent., to spearhead this growth with an expanded range of titles and formats including classic story books, novelty books, magazines and television tie-ins.
Last season, seeing Digger, the animated alter-ego to FOX's Gopher Cam, meant experiencing amazing track-level shots as the field raced by. That hasn't changed, but this year he's back with some company in THE ADVENTURES OF DIGGER AND FRIENDS.
HIT Entertainment and MV Sports have extended and renewed three licensing deals across HIT's preschool properties THOMAS & FRIENDS, BOB THE BUILDER and FIREMAN SAM.
MV Sports, a U.K.'s children's licensees, has renewed its THOMAS & FRIENDS license in the wheeled toy category. THOMAS & FRIENDS, the U.K.'s No. 1 preschool property for nine consecutive years, leads the market in wheeled toys. MV Sports will launch a new range of wheeled toys in conjunction with the release of the new THOMAS & FRIENDS in CGI, taking Thomas to new destinations at retail.
Australia's Galaxy Pop and Canada's Amberwood Ent. have signed a co-production deal for the animated preschool series THE SUNSHINE FRIENDS.
The 52x11 2D series, created by Galaxy Pop producers Dina McPherson and Gian Christian, follows the adventure of five friends from around the globe who join Grandma Sunshine in her enchanted tree house, where they are magically transported back in time to visit her past memories from her days as an intrepid world explorer.
HIT Ent. has appointed Fisher-Price, Inc. as the global master toy licensee for THOMAS & FRIENDS, the world's top preschool property for boys, in a multi-territory, multi-year deal.
It's full steam ahead for the world's most famous blue engine, Thomas the Tank Engine, as it prepares to make its television debut in China. HIT Ent. has announced that THOMAS & FRIENDS will be broadcast on China's national broadcaster CCTV for four series of the popular preschool show.
Action series KA-POW!, a spinoff of HAPPY TREE FRIENDS, has debuted a series premiere episode on www.happytreefriends.com.
A collection of hilarious Cartoon Network original shows including Craig McCracken's Emmy Award-winning FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS, and the brand-new sensation CHOWDER, about an apprentice chef in Marzipan City who's always hungry and will eat anything, even a customer's order. Also, THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES OF FLAPJACK, about a young boy, raised in a talking whale named Bubbie, who joins adventurous pirate Captain K'nuckles in search of Candied Island.
"Bruised Bluenana" -- CHOWDER (11 minutes) "The Heavy Sleeper" -- Chowder (11 minutes)
A deer mime competes in the Olympic Games? Only in the world of HAPPY TREE FRIENDS! Their new Olympic-themed short video SMOOCHIE, up now on www.happytreefriends.com, is loaded with more skull-splitting, eye-popping and hair-raising comedy worthy of a gold medal. The new SMOOCHIE stars Mime, a character that has not yet seen the SMOOCHIE spotlight.
Animation for kids, XXX: STATE OF THE UNION on Blu-ray, some classic WB shows and more, all on DVD and Blu-ray today.
From Walt Disney Home Ent. comes MULAN and the direct-to-DVD sequel MULAN II together in one package.
Popular Preschool Friends Garner Honors
Prestigious organizations such as the Parents' Choice Foundation, The Dove Foundation, Parent to Parent and The Toy Man Product Guide recently honored DVDs from HIT Ent. for quality in children's programming.
Preschool favorites BARNEY, THOMAS & FRIENDS, and BOB THE BUILDER received the following honors:
2008 Parents' Choice Approved:BARNEY: CELEBRATING AROUND THE WORLDTHOMAS & FRIENDS: ENGINES AND ESCAPADES
2008 Parents' Choice Recommended:
