Yonder Serialized Story Platform Launched by Wattpad-Webtoon Proprietor Naver

YONDER SERIALIZED FICTION LAUNCH

Blackstone Publishing, Aethon Books and Sterling and Stone are among the many first publishing companions to affix Yonder, a brand new serialized fiction app combining cellular studying, a serialized expertise and hundreds of curated tales. Then enterprise is being launched by South Korea’s Naver, the tech big that owns Webtoon and Wattpad, the story app that has germinated scores of book-to-film diversifications. The platform presents an ad-free studying expertise with a number of chapters of every story out there totally free earlier than readers are provided the possibility to unlock extra materials utilizing digital cash.

At launch, Yonder is the house of unique new titles together with “Sure to the Shadow Prince,” from Ruby Dixon, the worldwide best-selling fantasy writer of the TikTok viral sensation sequence “Ice Planet Barbarians”; “Bitten by Want,” the primary paranormal romance from best-selling writer Ivy Smoak, (“The Hunted” guide sequence”; and “Gravesong,” a derivative of the favored internet serial “The Wandering Inn,” from pirateaba.

LEONINE AGREES IT TAKES TOON2TANGO

Germany’s acquisitive media group Leonine Holding has purchased a 25.1% strategic minority stake in three-year-old Munich-based Toon2Tango. The corporate is headed by Ulrich Stoef and Jo Daris, who produced, amongst others, the worldwide hit sequence “Mia and Me.” With the funding in Toon2Tango, we’ve accomplished the worth chain in youngsters and household leisure by enhancing content material improvement and manufacturing,” stated Leonine’s Fred Kogel. By way of this connection we strengthen our market place and now have the total energy to construct a serious European participant in kids’s and household leisure,” stated Hans Ulrich Stoef, CEO and producer at Toon2Tango.

AQUA PARK

Columbia Footage Aquaverse, the world’s first totally branded Columbia Footage film theme park formally opened this week in Bang Saray, Pattaya, Thailand. A collaboration between Sony Footage Leisure and native developer Amazon Falls, the park contains rides and immersive points of interest primarily based on in style Hollywood movies and characters together with “Ghostbusters,” “Jumanji,” “Unhealthy Boys,” “Zombieland,” “The Emoji Film,” “Surfs Up,” “Resort Transylvania,” and “Cloudy with a Probability of Meatballs.” The one-day ticket prices THB1,590 ($41.7) for adults and THB1,290 ($33.80) for youths.