Rooster Teeth Expands Distribution Partnership with Cinedigm to Represent Key Properties Both Domestically and Abroad
July 20 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Deal includes Rooster Teeth Hit Series Red
Vs. Blue, RWBY, and Crunch Time
Pioneering entertainment company Rooster Teeth is expanding its
long and successful distribution partnership with Cinedigm (NASDAQ:
CIDM) for exclusive Theatrical, Non-Theatrical, Home Video, Digital
and Television rights in North America and Worldwide for most of
their properties. Properties included in the multi-year renewal
include Red VS Blue, the award-winning and longest running web
series, globally acclaimed animated series RWBY, RT Shorts, Crunch
Time and other popular Rooster Teeth shows. Additionally, Cinedigm
will offer continued seasons of popular shows such as the animated
series RWBY Chibi and Camp Camp.
The companies will be pursuing domestic and international
digital, home video and linear television deals for three hit
Rooster Teeth series, Red VS Blue, RWBY, and Crunch Time, all of
which live on Rooster Teeth’s rapidly growing subscription video on
demand platform (SVOD), FIRST, as well as other popular Rooster
Teeth shows.
“We're excited about the potential for these shows - that have
already won over millions of Rooster Teeth fans - to find new
audiences through our relationship with Cinedigm,” said Matt
Hullum, co-founder and CEO of Rooster Teeth.
“We are thrilled to be extending our long-term relationship with
Rooster Teeth to include even broader rights,” said Yolanda Macias,
EVP, Content Acquisitions and Digital Sales, Cinedigm. “This is a
prime example of how we at Cinedigm are expanding distribution
capabilities due to our strong digital relationships both here and
abroad.”
RWBY
RWBY is Rooster Teeth’s world-renowned, award-winning anime
series that tells the story of four different girls brought
together for one legendary purpose. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang
are students at Beacon Academy, an ancient school designed to train
the monster-slayers known as Hunters and Huntresses. Unfortunately,
monsters aren’t the only threat in the world of Remnant, and if
these girls want to graduate, they’ll have to learn to work
together – both on the battlefield and in the classroom. The fifth
volume (season) of RWBY premieres on Rooster Teeth FIRST on October
14, 2017.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/bZAS_rzgCE0
Crunch Time
Critically acclaimed Crunch Time is a half-hour sci-fi adventure
comedy starring Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks, Inglourious
Basterds), Nick Rutherford (Good Neighbor, Saturday Night Live),
Jessy Hodges (Grey’s Anatomy, True Blood), Avery Monsen (Maron,
High Maintenance), Brent Morin (How to Be Single, Undateable),
Michael Hyatt (Nightcrawler, True Detective), Kirk Johnson (Lazer
Team), and Burnie Burns (The Amazing Race, Lazer Team). In a highly
classified location, four brilliant, jackass grad students are
interrogated by government operatives. Why? Because after using
reckless “cutting-edge” science for their own petty purposes, this
rag tag team creates a small but potentially world-ending black
hole in their college lab. The clock is ticking for this secret
government agency to clean up the mess...and the students don’t
know what the hell they did to tear open the fabric of space and
time. The solution? T– tell these government operatives EVERY
illegal thing they’ve done in the lab… Season 1 of Crunch Time
premiered in 2016 on Rooster Teeth FIRST.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnaz-oBYvrg
About Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth is a pioneering studio responsible for some of the
biggest online series in history, such as the award-winning and
longest-running web series, Red vs. Blue. They also produce the
globally acclaimed animated series RWBY, the first western anime
series to be distributed in Japan; the award-winning Rooster Teeth
Podcast; and Immersion, a reality format that brings video game
theory to the real world. Rooster Teeth has a massive global
footprint of more than 38 million subscribers to its YouTube
Network, 5 million unique monthly visitors to its RoosterTeeth.com
hub and 2 million registered community members. The company was
founded in 2003, and is now a subsidiary of Fullscreen Media, a
global youth media company that develops online creators and
produces multi-platform entertainment experiences. Discover more at
RoosterTeeth.com.
About Cinedigm
Cinedigm powers custom content solutions to the world’s largest
retail, media and technology companies. We provide premium feature
films and series to digital platforms including iTunes, Netflix,
and Amazon, cable and satellite providers including Comcast, Dish
Network and DirecTV, and major retailers including Walmart and
Target. Leveraging Cinedigm’s unique capabilities, content and
technology, the Company has emerged as a leader in the fast-growing
over-the-top channel business, with four channels under management
that reach hundreds of millions of devices while also providing
premium content and service expertise to the entire OTT
ecosystem.
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