US EditionWebtoon Entertainment & Warner Bros. Animation To Co-Produce 10 Webtoon Series For Global Distribution
Webtoon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation will co-produce 10 animated series from popular mobile webcomics, leveraging Webtoon's 155 million monthly users for global reach.
- Recently, Webtoon Entertainment agreed to co-produce a slate of 10 fan-favorite Webtoon webcomics with Warner Bros. Animation for global distribution, bringing mobile-originated stories to animation.
- The company says the deal advances its animation pipeline by significantly expanding Webtoon Entertainment's projects while creators retain IP and receive a share of revenue.
- Sinbae Kim, Chief Growth Officer of LINE Digital Frontier, led global animation efforts and helped secure the deal, while Webtoon Productions supports development from Korean- and English-language platforms.
- Webtoon points to hits such as 'True Beauty' and 'Tower of God' as examples of phone-screen stories growing into global entertainment, underpinning franchise potential, with about 155 million monthly users.
- No release dates have yet been set, and the slate is early in development while Warner Bros. Animation recently released titles on March 14, 2025, showing strong production capacity.
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Webtoon Entertainment & Warner Bros. Animation To Co-Produce 10 Webtoon Series For Global Distribution
Webtoon Entertainment is set to enter a deal with Warner Bros. Animation to co-produce a slate of 10 fan-favorite Webtoon series for global distribution. The partnership is a “significant expansion of Webtoon Entertainment’s animation pipeline,” according to the company. Projects will be selected from the company’s Korean and English-language platforms, with development support from Webtoon Entertainment’s US-based Webtoon Productions and Japa…
[Digital Daily Reporter Chae Seong-oh] Naver Webtoon's US headquarters, Webtoon Entertainment, announced plans to develop an animation project with Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) on the 13th (Korean time). The two companies will sign a contract to jointly produce 10 webtoon-based animations with the goal of global distribution. Warner Bros. Animation is a studio within Warner Bros. Discovery Group that produces and distributes animations. Through …
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