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Chaos Agents, designed by Richard Garfield and the world's first autobattler-royale, sees rapid growth from playtest

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chaos Agents is the world's first autobattler-royale, designed by Richard Garfield and the first game developed by Popularium, co-founded by Garfield in 2022.

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  • LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chaos Agents is the world's first autobattler-royale, designed by Richard Garfield and the first game developed by Popularium, co-founded by Garfield in 2022.
  • In Chaos Agents, players coach and guide a globally unique superhero – their Chaos Agent – to victory in a grand battle royale against dozens of other Agents.
  • "With Chaos Agents, we were inventing the 'autobattler-royale' genre and didn't have a real-world example to learn from or improve upon.
  • The response from the early Chaos Agents community has also helped accelerate the development of Chaos Agents significantly.

Clique Games Announces "Small Bots" for Apple Vision Pro

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Friday, February 2, 2024

CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- On the Cutting Edge of Spatial Gaming, "Small Bots" brings Nostalgia and Innovation to the Highly Anticipated Apple Vision Pro.

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  • Clique Games proudly announces the publishing of Small Bots exclusively for Apple Vision Pro.
  • Developed by Atlantika Interactive and published by Clique Games, Small Bots is a groundbreaking spatial game custom-built for Apple Vision Pro.
  • Clique Games proudly announces the publishing of Small Bots exclusively for Apple Vision Pro.
  • Developed by Atlantika Interactive and published by Clique Games, Small Bots is a groundbreaking spatial game custom-built for Apple Vision Pro.

WILDBRAIN REPORTS Q1 2024 RESULTS

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Cash used in operating activities was $3.0 million, compared to cash used in operating activities of $23.3 million in Q1 2023.

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  • Cash used in operating activities was $3.0 million, compared to cash used in operating activities of $23.3 million in Q1 2023.
  • Free Cash Flow1 was negative $25.4 million, compared to negative $8.9 million in Q1 2023.
  • TORONTO, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - WildBrain Ltd. ("WildBrain" or the "Company") (TSX: WILD), a global leader in kids' and family entertainment, today reported its first-quarter ("Q1 2024") results for the period ended September 30, 2023.
  • With production slated to start in 2024, this feature is a continuation of our commitment to investing in premium content.

Thunderbird Entertainment Recognized as one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies by The Globe and Mail

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Friday, September 29, 2023

This recognition is further testament to the trusted reputation that Thunderbird has established through its high-quality, premium content.

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  • This recognition is further testament to the trusted reputation that Thunderbird has established through its high-quality, premium content.
  • “This year’s Report on Business magazine’s list of Top Growing Companies shows how innovative ideas always rise to the top, perhaps even more so in times of uncertainty,” says Andrew Saunders, CEO of The Globe and Mail.
  • “The Globe and Mail congratulates this year’s winners for meeting and surpassing those economic challenges.”
    Canada’s Top Growing Companies is a report that ranks Canadian companies on three-year revenue growth.
  • “With solid industry relationships and award winning content, Thunderbird Entertainment is growing steadily,” says Jennifer Twiner McCarron, CEO of Thunderbird Entertainment.

Persia White set to Release Album "Love Letters" and new music video "ROBOT LOVE" on August 18th 2023

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Friday, August 18, 2023

NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Acclaimed actress, musician, filmmaker, and activist Persia White is thrilled to announce her highly anticipated album, "Love Letters." The forthcoming album is an intimate collection of twelve songs each representing a love letter to her loved one. It will be released independently by her label Hybrid Music on August 18th, 2023 on iTunes, Band Camp, and PersiaWhiteMusic.com, available now on Band Camp and iTunes. "Love Letters" will also have a limited edition 12" LP pressed on BIO vinyl, making it one of the world's first plastic-free vinyl records ever produced, and will include a four-page LP booklet with pictures, lyrics and liner notes.

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  • The forthcoming album is an intimate collection of twelve songs each representing a love letter to her loved one.
  • It will be released independently by her label Hybrid Music on August 18th, 2023 on iTunes, Band Camp , and PersiaWhiteMusic.com, available now on Band Camp and iTunes.
  • Persia is well-known for her eight years on the award-winning TV series "Girlfriends" and "The Vampire Diaries."
  • The success of the single and video have garnered anticipation for the full album, as well as the dynamic new music video, "Robot Love," directed, produced, and edited by Persia White, out on August 18, 2023.

Renfield: Nicolas Cage's reimagining of Dracula pulls the vampire film into the 21st century

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

“Don’t make it a sexual thing!” Nicolas Cage’s Dracula tells Nicholas Hoult’s Renfield in this new interpretation of the classic vampire movie.

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  • “Don’t make it a sexual thing!” Nicolas Cage’s Dracula tells Nicholas Hoult’s Renfield in this new interpretation of the classic vampire movie.
  • “I eat boys … I eat girls.” In a line, the film deftly dismisses a century of post-Freudian interpretations of Bram Stoker’s vampire story – and with justification.
  • In its recognition that gaslighting and emotional abuse are about control rather than desire, the film provides a version of the vampire myth in tune with contemporary debates.

Citational vampires

    • This means that they compulsively reference other vampire films, playfully reworking the conventions of the genre.
    • In Renfield, an eye-catching sequence transposes Cage and Hoult’s faces onto footage from Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931).
    • They accused the studio of profiting from Lugosi’s image after his death through merchandising, initiating a protracted case they eventually lost.

Action versus comedy

    • But unlike previous attempts to hybridise the vampire and action genres, such as the Blade and Underworld series of the early 2000s, it does not take itself too seriously.
    • There is a long tradition of vampire comedy.
    • The self-referential nature of vampire cinema gives rise to comedy.
    • While comparable contemporary vampire film What We Do in the Shadows and its spin-off TV series allow emotional insights to surface through the comedy, in Renfield any potential profundity is deflected into action stunts.

Thunderbird Entertainment Appoints Hillary Zwick Turner as SVP, Scripted Content to Lead New L.A.-Based Development Hub

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV:TBRD, OTC – THBRF) (“Thunderbird” or the “Company”) is very pleased to announce the appointment of Hillary Zwick Turner to the new role of SVP, Scripted Content.

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  • Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV:TBRD, OTC – THBRF) (“Thunderbird” or the “Company”) is very pleased to announce the appointment of Hillary Zwick Turner to the new role of SVP, Scripted Content.
  • She’ll also oversee scripted development and production for the Company’s new L.A.-based scripted hub.
  • We already have content in active network development and will be leveraging the entire Company to pursue and take advantage of global scripted opportunities."
  • “I’m thrilled to be joining Matt, Barbara and the team at Thunderbird to help build a global premium scripted content brand,” said Turner.

AMC Networks and VIZIO Expand Partnership

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

VIZIO (NYSE: VZIO) announced today an expanded partnership with AMC Networks, bringing even more of the company’s broad range of premium programming to VIZIO Smart TVs.

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  • VIZIO (NYSE: VZIO) announced today an expanded partnership with AMC Networks, bringing even more of the company’s broad range of premium programming to VIZIO Smart TVs.
  • The expanded partnership includes the recent addition of the AMC+ app, nine free streaming channels and over 150 on-demand feature films available on VIZIO’s free streaming service, WatchFree+.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230330005261/en/
    AMC Networks and VIZIO Expand Partnership (Photo: Business Wire)
    New AMC Networks’ channels featured thanks to the agreement include Portlandia, MSG Sports Zone, AMC en Espanol, Allblk Gems and Overtime along with more than 150 AMC on demand feature films are now available on VIZIO’s free streaming service, WatchFree+.
  • “AMC and VIZIO have been working together for several years to bring audiences the best in entertainment.

Thunderbird Entertainment Group Reports Fiscal 2023 Q2 Results

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV: TBRD, OTCQX: THBRF) (Thunderbird or the Company) today announced its financial results for fiscal Q2 2023, which ended December 31, 2022, and provided a corporate update.

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  • Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV: TBRD, OTCQX: THBRF) (Thunderbird or the Company) today announced its financial results for fiscal Q2 2023, which ended December 31, 2022, and provided a corporate update.
  • On January 19, 2023, Thunderbird announced that it had entered into a Cooperation Agreement with Voss Capital LLC (the Cooperation Agreement).
  • Thunderbird expects to incur additional proxy contest expenses of approximately $1.8 million, including Cooperation Agreement expenses, for the three months ended March 31, 2023.
  • As a result of this unexpected delay the Company is no longer anticipating the second half of fiscal 2023 to be its strongest of the year and is anticipating a lower Adjusted EBITDA in fiscal 2023 compared to fiscal 2022.

Orange Comet and AMC Expand the Immortal Universe of Anne Rice NFT Collection With Mayfair Witches

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange Comet, Inc., a premium Web3 entertainment and gaming company, today announced the latest extension of its collaboration with AMC's "Immortal Universe of Anne Rice" with the introduction of the Mayfair Witches Pass. With the pass acting as a key for fans' entry into a digital world full of witches, vampires, and all things mystical, this epic limited collection will broaden the Immortal Universe community through a variety of virtual and real-life experiences. The Mayfair Witches Pass is set to mint exclusively on OpenSea March 7, 2023. New episodes of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches air Sundays 9/8c on AMC and AMC+.

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  • New episodes of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches air Sundays 9/8c on AMC and AMC+.
  • The announcement comes on the heels of Orange Comet and AMC's expanded partnership, which introduced the now sold-out Interview with the Vampire Immortal Pass.
  • This latest digital collection will invite Mayfair Witches fans to enter the Immortal Universe and explore the unique realm in a virtual collect-to-earn Metaverse experience.
  • To join the allow list and stay apprised of the latest information, fans can visit Orange Comet's AMC NFT collection http://mayfairwitchesnfts.com/ .