- Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products has partnered with The Entertainer and HMV for a Superman-themed retail takeover campaign running across the UK throughout July. Spanning more than 160 stores, The Entertainer will welcome kids and families looking for merchandise from the feature film with six-foot-tall Superman standees and new window displays. Meanwhile, HMV is transforming its stores with dedicated Man of Steel shopping zones and a new logo makeover featuring Krypto the Superdog.
- Universal Products & Experiences has signed British book publisher DK as a new licensee for Gabby’s Dollhouse. As part of the deal, DK will roll out its first three Gabby-branded titles in October, starting with a sticker book and two pop-up books themed around Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie.
- Swiss pubcaster RTS has acquired the free-TV and VOD rights to the first two seasons of Avanti-Toast’s live-action tween drama series First Line (52 x 22 minutes). Spain’s GoldBee brokered the sale as the series’ global distributor and has signed similar deals with France Télévisions (France), SVT (Sweden) and RTBF (Belgium).
- Movistar Plus+ has renewed its agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment to maintain its status as the exclusive first-window streamer of Sony-branded films and TV shows in Spain. Under the deal, Movistar subscribers will have first access to select SPE titles like Karate Kid: Legends after their theatrical runs and home entertainment windows are finished. Other legacy family titles included are Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, Men in Black and Hotel Transylvania.
- In celebration of Winnie-the-Pooh’s 100th anniversary, children’s publisher Farshore has teamed up with The Pooh Properties to create new editions of A.A.Milne’s and E.H. Shepard’s four classic novels later this year. Following this initial drop, Farshore will publish an authorized sequel to the books called A Little Boy and His Bear next year, written by Jane Riordan and illustrated by Andrew Grey.
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