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Retail Product Line Launching Spring 2012 CCI Entertainment is pleased to announce that Wooky Entertainment, a worldwide master arts & crafts licensee, has been acquired for CCI`s award-winning series Artzooka!. With this new partnership, CCI and Wooky are planning to launch product at retail for Spring 2012. The line will reflect the innovation and spirit [...]

The Lovable Puppet Characters of Juno Baby and Juno Jr. to Share Music Education with Children through TV Series CCI Entertainment is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with The Juno Company to produce a television series based on the Emmy award-winning Juno property. Under the deal, CCI Entertainment will play a [...]

CCI Entertainment and France Télévisions team up to produce the latest version of Artzooka! CCI Entertainment is pleased to announce a new localized co-production of the live action / CGI blended art series, Artzooka! in association with France Télévisions. This original Artzooka! production, shot in French, is slated for a Fall 2011 launch. The series [...]

The distributor’s newly acquired home-improvement and design series will answer international broadcasters call for lifestyle programming   CCI Releasing Inc. is proud to announce that it has acquired four new high-definition, factual home-improvement series that are ready for the world market. This roster includes: Making House, by General Purpose Pictures, Candice Tells All and Home Wreckers [...]

CCI signs worldwide distribution agreement for animated preschool series, Joe and Jack CCI Entertainment Ltd. is pleased to announce that they will handle worldwide distribution as well as merchandising for the new animated preschool series, Joe and Jack (39 X 7 mins). The series is being produced by Ireland’s Dancing Girl Productions. Joe and Jack [...]

By Wendy Goldman Getzler It looks like the guys behind CCI Entertainment’s new GeoFreakZ brand were paying attention during science class. The biological concept of mutualism—or reciprocal usefulness—is in full force in the new Canadian property, whose TV, online and live event components directly feed off one another. Developed in partnership with Canadian kidnet Teletoon, [...]

A new children’s property for TELETOON ties together the sport of geocaching with a dynamic multiplayer online game and a series of minisodes CCI Entertainment – in collaboration with TELETOON – is pleased to announce a partnership with geocaching.com and its parent company Groundspeak Inc. to integrate the real life family sport of geocaching with [...]

CCI and Rainmaker pair up to bring a slate of classic and beloved characters to the international market CCI Entertainment is pleased to announce an agreement with prominent Canadian producer, Rainmaker Entertainment for eight CGI animated 3D family titles to distribute internationally. These include storylines with popular characters including Inspector Gadget, Popeye and Arthur, just [...]

Emmy Award winning and leading Australian children’s entertainment company, SLR Productions has today signed a worldwide* distribution deal with Canada’s CCI Entertainment Ltd for the animated preschool 52 x 11 minute series, GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare, *excluding Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Executive Producer, [...]

Artzooka paints itself a home on television and computer screens starting September 6th The new live action/CGI blended art series Artzooka! that has been in development for 2 years by CCI Entertainment and the CBC, has launched on Canadian television and the web this week. The multiplatform children’s property had it’s Canadian debut on the [...]

Time Compass- Ancient Civilizations ties for first place in children’s non-fiction CCI Entertainment’s Co-Chairman and CEO Arnie Zipursky is pleased to congratulate Sol 90 for their success at the 2009 Prix Jeunesse, Iberoamerican Edition. Time Compass, a 32 x 11 minute edutainment series distributed by CCI Entertainment, tied for first place in the non-fiction kids [...]

Time Compass- Ancient Civilizations ties for first place in children’s non-fiction CCI Entertainment’s Co-Chairman and CEO Arnie Zipursky is pleased to congratulate Sol 90 for their success at the 2009 Prix Jeunesse, Iberoamerican Edition. Time Compass, a 32 x 11 minute edutainment series distributed by CCI Entertainment, tied for first place in the non-fiction kids [...]

CCI builds its sponsorship activity into plans for global brands CCI Entertainment is pleased to announce that it is embarking on an aggressive strategy to attract sponsorship partners to its multiplatform properties, with a particular focus on US based multinational companies. The company has concluded an agreement with LA – based entertainment brand strategist, Suzy [...]

Charles Falzon, Co-Chairman of CCI Entertainment has been appointed by Ryerson’s Faculty of Communications & Design to Chair the internationally renowned School of Radio & Television Arts (RTA). As Chair of RTA, Falzon will be responsible for the management of the School’s academic and operational affairs and will work closely with faculty and staff of [...]

Hit preschool series continues to connect with preschoolers Growing demand for CCI Entertainment’s top-rated preschool series Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs has lead to a raft of new merchandising deals for the property in a number of territories around the globe. HOME ENTERTAINMENT Abbey Home Media, who signed on a home entertainment partner [...]

CCI’s animated comedy series Erky Perky fulfils needs of the international marketplace CCI Entertainment’s Arnie Zipursky is pleased to announce continuing sales of its hit children’s property, Erky Perky. The series has just been sold to Pop TV in the UK – home to Winx Club, Super Mario and Ruby Gloom – as well as [...]

CCI Entertainment and Motionworks GmbH have teamed up with Nickelodeon Germany to create localized version CCI Entertainment, Motion Works and Nickelodeon Germany have partnered up to produce the first local version of the live action / cgi blended series Artzooka! The local language episodes will feature Nils XXX as the German host, who embodies all [...]

CCI EXPERIENCES CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS WITH TWEEN COMEDY CCI Releasing is pleased to report a new raft of international broadcast partners for Alice Upside Down. The family film has just been sold to Televisa in Mexico, Super Ecran in Canada, as well as Disney Germany, France, Italy and Japan, plus Canal+ Poland, TV1 Portugal and [...]

CCI Entertainment along with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are pleased to announce the success of Turbo Dogs at this years Telly Awards. The series won a bronze in the Children’s Television Category. The announcement came this week and is the first Telly Award for the series. Turbo Dogs, the critically acclaimed animated series airs on [...]

Alyson Stoner shot to fame in Cheaper By The Dozen in 2003 and starred in last year’s Camp Rock when she took on the role of Caitlyn Gellar, alongside Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers, and is one of the up and coming teen stars to keep an eye on. She takes on the lead [...]

Meteor And The Mighty Monster Trucks – Shifting Gears, the third DVD release in the series from Brandissimo!, is a winner in the Home Video/DVD category of the 2009 iParenting Excellent Products. Commenting on the award company CEO David Snyder said, “When we set out to create this third installment of the successful Meteor DVD [...]