Sony Pictures Animation has licensed its TV treatment of the Hotel Transylvania movie to Disney Channel internationally, including the U.S. market. The global deal will see Disney Channel take the broadcast and on-demand rights for the animated series produced in Toronto by Nelvana Enterprises. Disney nabbed Hotel Transylvania: The Television series for platforms in the U.S., Europe (excluding Germany), Latin America, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. 'Hotel Transylvania' TV Series Headed to Disney Channels Worldwide
This seems like kind of a strange fit to me, but I guess Disney Channel is running low on animated series at the moment so it fills a void. In the 90's there were all sorts of TV shows based on popular feature films (Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, 101 Dalmatians, and even Dumbo and Alice had shows) but it's a format they haven't really used recently. Given the wide array of characters and locations, it seems like Zootopia could be a good choice for this sort of thing, assuming Disney has enough confidence in their own product to invest in it
Disney was trading at 100 dollars a share yesterday, Sony 25 dollars a share. What if Disney interactive was shut down, because they are about to own Playstation.
