41 Entertainment Signs Licensing Agents for Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

41 Entertainment has appointed new licensing and merchandising agents in Latin markets including Spain and Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, and Latin and Central America for the Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures TV series slated to begin broadcast next fall and spring 2014.

BRB Internacional will handle all licensing and merchandising activity in Spain and Portugal; Tycoon Enterprises is charged with Mexico; Redibra Licensing will manage in Brazil; and Televix will oversee all activities in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia.

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Disney XD Named U.S. Broadcaster for Pac-Man Series

Namco Bandai Games, Inc., Arad Productions, and 41 Entertainment LLC (“41e”), announced that they have granted the U.S. television rights to Disney XD for a new animated action comedy series tentatively titled Pac-Man– The Adventure Begins (26×22), set for a fall 2013 airing.

Based on the brand owned by Namco Bandai, the series is created in stereoscopic 3-D, and executive produced by Avi Arad (Spider-Man for Sony Pictures, Iron Man for Paramount, Hulk for Universal, and Fantastic Four and X-Men for 20th Century Fox) and Rick Ungar (Biker Mice from Mars for New World, X-Men Evolution for Marvel, and Legend of the Dragon for BKN).

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