NIKO: JOURNEY TO MAGIKA, Red Giant's First Animated Movie Premieres on Hulu
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ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - December 12, 2014) - Red Giant Entertainment Inc. (REDG), an innovative Intellectual Property development company specializing in high quality characters and content for use in a variety of media and entertainment, is pleased to announce premiere the Company's animated feature film NIKO: JOURNEY TO MAGIKA today, exclusively on Hulu.
The movie is available to both Hulu Plus subscribers and for free online to non-subscribers at: http://www.hulu.com/watch/721296
NIKO: JOURNEY TO MAGIKA chronicles a young boy's hair-raising adventures in a fantastical land of myths and monsters on a search for his kidnapped grandparents. This full-length all-ages fantasy film was rendered in a colorful mix of traditional hand-drawn animation and computer-generated imagery. The film's Hulu premiere is in anticipation of the MAGIKA tie-in comic serial's debut in GIANT-SIZE ADVENTURE, Red Giant's free double-sized ad-supported comic book boasting a monthly circulation of 1 million copies.
"This is just the beginning of our 'Direct-to-digital' line of animations, movies, and television series," explained Red Giant CEO, Benny Powell. "The Hulu platform provides revenue from advertising based on the traffic generated by our content for free to viewers. Building audiences and capitalizing on free, advertising-driven content is at the heart of our operations. Hulu gives us the ability do both in the best way possible. We couldn't be happier!"
Hulu, a joint venture of NBC Universal, News Corp. and Disney, is an ad-supported streaming video service that offers a vast selection of popular TV shows and movies. Since 2008, more than 1,650 individual advertisers have leveraged the Hulu service to promote their product or service. While Hulu can be accessed for free from any computer Web browser, those with a Hulu Plus subscription can also view Hulu on connected TVs, Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, set-top boxes, mobile phones, tablets and more.
The Hulu deal was brokered by Inception Media Group, the worldwide sales agent for NIKO: JOURNEY TO MAGIKA. Inception is also in the process of selling the film in all territories through its foreign sales subsidiary Inception Film Partners.
NIKO: JOURNEY TO MAGIKA is presented by Red Giant, Glass House Graphics and Cutting Edge Productions. The film was produced by David Campiti and executive produced by Jessie Lasaten, Benny Powell, Isen Robbins and Aimee Schoof. Directed by Robert Quilao, the film's screenplay was written by The New York Times bestselling author David Lawrence, Temi Abad and Eric Cabahug. The film made its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Multi-award-winning composer and arranger Jessie Lasaten wrote the musical score for the film and recorded it with a live orchestra with the help of the FILharmoniKA, conducted by Gerard Salonga. Internationally-renowned performer Lea Salonga -- best known to American audiences as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney's ALADDIN -- sang an international version the movie's theme song "Fly" for the soundtrack.
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Inception Media Group, LLC is based in Los Angeles and is a diversified media company specializing in the production, acquisition and distribution of motion pictures and other filmed entertainment across all media platforms and channels of distribution. Inception Media Group has extensive relationships with exhibitors, retailers, distributors and technology companies, enabling the Company to maximize the services performed on behalf of its content partners. The company boasts a catalog of over 125 filmed entertainment properties and more than 2,500 hours of digital content encompassing feature films, episodic television series, documentaries and special interest programming. Inception Film Partners, LLC, a foreign sales company and subsidiary of Inception Media Group, provides production companies and filmmaker's worldwide sales and distribution services to theatrical, broadcast, digital, home video and emerging media outlets. More information is available at www.inceptionmediagroup.com and www.inceptionfilmpartners.com.
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Red Giant Entertainment Inc. (REDG) is a Nevada corporation that specializes in intellectual property (IP) development for multiple media platforms and transmedia propagation. The cornerstone of this development is based around the more than three dozen online and print graphic novel properties in various stages of production as well as the cast of thousands of characters from those series. These properties have a readership that numbers in the millions globally. Some of these properties are actively in development into other media such as movies, video games, television, novels, toys, apparel, applications, etc. through either direct production or licensing agreements.
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