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Atlantyca Entertainment Expands Partnership With Future Today

Milan & Menlo Park, CA – February 7, 2023 – Atlantyca Entertainment is proud to announce it has extended its relationship with Future Today, the leader in ad-supported streaming, ranking in the top free channels across every major connected TV (CTV) and over-the-top (OTT) platform. Through this expansion, Future Today will now distribute the first season of its spy-action animated series Berry Bees and the second season of the internationally popular scary-comic adventure Bat Pat, on its flagship kids and family-channel, HappyKids..

Both series are currently available on the highly popular platform broadcast throughout the US and Canada for Berry Bees, while Bat Pat is streamed in US, Canada and UK.

Berry Bees (52 x 12min episodes) is Atlantyca’s high-energy, hilarious, spy show with all the right ingredients. When the world’s top-secret villains unleash their mayhem and the Berry Bees are summoned to the rescue, when the adult spies are simply not suitable for the case, Bobby, Lola and Juliette become mistresses of disguise, secret undercover agents, astute mentalists and martial arts experts who also use awesome berry-themed gadgets to save the day. Berry Bees, is an international co-production between Atlantyca, SLR Productions, Telegael and Studio Cosmos-Maya, with the participation of Rai Ragazzi and NINE Network.

“Berry Bees and Bat Pat have proven to resonate with kids and families everywhere,” noted Alessandra Dematteis, Distribution Manager, Atlantyca Entertainment. “Both of these animated shows are comprised of wonderful animation supported by strong storytelling, easily captivating young audiences everywhere. We are so excited to be working with the Future Today team again and look forward to sharing these two delightful series with their expansive young audience reach.”

Season two of Bat Pat (52 x 12min episodes) is a co-production with Mondo TV Producciones Canarias with the participation of Rai Ragazzi (Italy) and RTVE (Spain) as broadcasting partners.

Bat Pat follows the spooky and comical animated adventures of Bat Pat and his friends Martin, Leo and Rebecca Silver as they unravel mysteries and cross paths with supernatural creatures of the night in Fogville – a small town that seems to be the center of all things weird in the world, a veritable magnet to ghosts, mummies, witches and many other supernatural creatures who just need… help! On Season 2 our friends with Molly the zombie will travel across the globe on board of Engine 13, a ghostly train, for new supernatural adventures.

“We are pleased to partner up again with Atlantyca Entertainment to bring our viewers even more engaging kids’ content,” Said David Di Lorenzo, SVP of Kids and Family at Future Today. “Providing safe and entertaining content to our viewers remains top of mind when determining what series and movies to distribute. These new episodes of Bat Pat and Berry Bees will be sure to captivate viewers wherever they may stream HappyKids.”

Future Today launched its first streaming app on Roku in 2011 and has since experienced more than 85% growth in viewership year-over-year, streaming more than 63 million hours of content each month. The company launched its first OTT channel in 2011 and has since grown to operate hundreds of content channels with over 110 million app installs, and manages a library of more than 240,000 film, television and digital content assets in a variety of categories including entertainment, movies, food, lifestyle, animation and kids.

HappyKids is a free and safe app designed to educate and entertain millions of kids across multiple platforms every day. HappyKids is available on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, xFinity, Vizio and most major connected TV and mobile devices.

About Atlantyca Entertainment
Atlantyca Entertainment is the award-winning, leading trans-media entertainment company maintaining Production & Distribution, Licensing, Publishing, Foreign Rights Sales and Atlantyca Live divisions. The company is highly recognized for managing the IP rights for its Geronimo Stilton, Bat Pat and Berry Bees brands and all of its franchises.

Atlantyca is the well-known producer of a string of the globally successful animated children’s productions: Geronimo Stilton, Bat Pat and Berry Bees. The company has produced three fully completed seasons (78×23’) of the globally popular “Geronimo Stilton” the successful animated property featuring the adventures of the most famous mouse journalist;  “Bat Pat” is the spooky animated adventure-comedy (104×12’), delivering 52 all new, funnier, creepier and more entertaining episodes – the second season is a coproduction with Mondo TV Producciones Canarias with the participation of Rai Ragazzi (Italy) and RTVE (Spain) as broadcasting partner; completed the first season of “Berry Bees” (52×12’), an animated buzz-kicking spy-action series, a coproduction with Australia’s SLR Productions, Ireland’s Telegael and India’s Studio Cosmo Maya with the participation of the broadcasters Rai Ragazzi (Italy) and Nine Network (Australia). Last year, Atlantyca Entertainment completed production and delivered ten fully completed episodes of a new highly anticipated live-action series for kids entitled SNOW BLACK.The sci-fi mystery series is the company’s first foray into live-action and is a co-production with RAI RAGAZZI and the collaboration of Bedeschi Film.

The Licensing division manages all of the international consumer brand extension and marketing & promotion initiatives for “Geronimo Stilton”, “Bat Pat” and “Berry Bees” and all of the character spin-offs. Atlantyca is the appointed Italian Licensing Agent for the evergreen “Hello Maestro”.

About Future Today 
Future Today is a leader in the ad-supported streaming media universe with its flagship channels – FilmRiseFawesome and HappyKids – ranking in the top free channels across nearly every OTT consumer platform. The company’s proprietary, cloud-based technology platform manages OTT services for hundreds of content owners, producers, distributors and major media companies helping them launch and monetize complex Connected TV channels across devices in a matter of days. Future Today’s comprehensive portfolio of technology and services includes video management, content management and publishing, app development and maintenance, cross-channel promotion, advertising, monetization and more. Learn more about Future Today here.

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