Media ("DHX" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: DHXM; TSX: DHX.A, DHX.B), a key player internationally in the creation of content for families and children, has signed a far-reaching deal with Turner Broadcasting for the new animated television series Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series based on the Sony Pictures Animation blockbuster film
franchise. The 26 x 22' animated series which DHX Media is producing with Sony Pictures
Animation, commissioned by TELETOON in Canada, has been picked up by Turner Broadcasting for its second flagship kids channel, Boomerang across EMEA, APAC, and Latin America. DHX Media handles global television, licensing
and merchandising and non-US home entertainment rights to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series (Sony will distribute home entertainment in the US). The series is being produced at DHX's animation studio in Vancouver, BC.
The 2009 mouth-watering animated feature comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and its 2013 sequel, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 , were produced by Sony
Pictures Animation, and distributed
by Columbia Pictures. Both films were critical and commercial successes which grossed a combined $510 million in theaters.
Josh Scherba, SVP Distribution at DHX Media said: " Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has a huge global fan-base following the
successful movie franchise and we are confident that the equally whacky and wonderful TV series will resonate with children and families globally." Cecilia Persson, VP of Acquisitions & Co-Productions, International at Turner Broadcasting commented: "As we continue to
expand our programming line-up, we're on the look-out for great content that whole families can enjoy. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs offers exactly that and we're delighted to have acquired the series for Boomerang right across our international markets." Rick Mischel, executive producer at Sony
Pictures Animation, added: "We're really excited to see the comedy and heart of Cloudy packed into a TV Series. This brand has fans worldwide, and now they get to go back and see all the adventures of Flint and Sam as teenagers."
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series takes place before the giant food fell from the sky. The series is a prequel where Flint
Lockwood is a tween unlike any other kid in town. After all, Swallow Falls is a blue-collar place where the whole economy is built on sardines and currently business is BOOMING!
Everyone loves those oily little critters. But Flint suffers from NFD: non-fish-related dreams. He wants to be a serious scientist and maybe one day not have his inventions blow up in his face and end in disaster. Along for the ride is his best friend Sam Sparks, the new girl in town, and wannabe school reporter. Together, these two outsiders have a lot of laughs and adventures and share a simple dream: to help their fellow Swallow Fallians by inventing sure-fire gizmos that have gotta be better than sardines, right?! Of course, all of the characters from the movies are back for the series including Flint's father, Tim, a man of few words and even fewer expression; Steve the monkey, Flint's sidekick and totally unreliable lab assistant; Mayor Shelbourne, the man who won his last term on a pro sardine platform; Brent, a local
celebrity who still models babywear even though he's a teenager; Earl who isn't a cop yet, but is working an even tougher gig…as a school gym teacher; and Manny, the shockingly capable kid who runs the school's
audio-visual department and anything else he touches.
About DHX Media
DHX Media Ltd. (www.dhxmedia.com ), a key player internationally in the creation of content for families and children, is recognized globally for such brands as Yo Gabba Gabba!, Caillou, Teletubbies, In the Night Garden, Inspector Gadget, Johnny Test , Slugterra and the multiple award-winning Degrassi franchise. The Company is
owner of the Family suite of channels, operated as DHX Television. DHX Media Ltd.
markets and distributes its library of more than 11,000 half-hours of entertainment programming worldwide, and licenses its
owned properties through its dedicated brand-management and consumer-products business, DHX Brands. DHX Media Ltd.'s full-service international licensing agency, Copyright Promotions Licensing Group Ltd. (CPLG), represents numerous entertainment,
sport and design brands. With offices in 15 cities worldwide, including Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Munich, Amsterdam and Beijing, DHX Media Ltd. is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol DHXM, and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols DHX.A and DHX.B.
About Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation produces a variety of animated and family entertainment for audiences around the world. The studio is following its worldwide comedy hits—the record-breaking monster comedies Hotel Transylvania and Hotel Transylvania 2 , the hybrid live action/animated blockbusters The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, and the mouth-watering Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies—;the fully animated reboot Get Smurfy In March 2017; the inspirational story The Lamb in December 2017; and an animated Spider-Man feature from the minds of directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord in Summer 2018. The studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas ; and the Academy Award® nominated stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, The Pirates! Band of Misfits . In 2007, Surf's Up also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The division, whose first feature film Open Season led to a very successful movie franchise including the upcoming Open Season: Scared Silly in Spring 2016, turned 10 in 2012. Sony Pictures Animation is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group.
