EXCLUSIVE: The BBC was victorious in a bidding war with Netflix for Dear England amid fears for the future of British storytelling on television.
07.03.2024 - 15:17 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Online content creator Parker James is going from social media stardom to the book store shelves.
James and animated story studio Toonstar have signed a multi-book deal with Random House Children’s Books for titles based on their animated StEvEn & Parker series.
The series will be adapted as middle grade graphic novels after being acquired by Phoebe Yeh, VP and Editor-At-Large for Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Book. Yeh is known for her work with the authors of The School for Good and Evil and Big Nate.
“I’ve been in the children’s publishing business for more than thirty five years, and as soon as I encountered StEvEn and Parker, I was completely taken and knew in my gut that StEvEn and Parker should be children’s book characters,” she said.
StEvEn and Parker is animated series co-created by Dallas-based content creator James, with Toonstar is producer. The weekly YouTube series garners around 30 million unique weekly viewers between its English-, Spanish- and Portuguese-language channels, which use AI natural-language dubbing technology.
As we reported in January, LA-based Toonstar has launched an AI creators studio off the back of StEvEn & Parker‘s success. This aims to co-produce low-cost animation franchises through partnerships with popular digital creatives, using an AI-powered production engine that produces professional-quality animation quickly.
John Attanasio and Luisa Huang, veterans of DreamWorks, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery, founded Toonstar, which has funding from the likes of Founders Fund, Greycroft, Snap, Baron Davis and GFR. The pairy claims that “contrary to prevailing sentiment in Hollywood,” AI is empowering a “new generation of IP and
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC was victorious in a bidding war with Netflix for Dear England amid fears for the future of British storytelling on television.
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