Apple has signed an overall deal with The Maurice Sendak Foundation. Its streaming service, Apple TV+, is looking to extend its range of child-friendly entertainment, and the author’s work will be the focus of new shows and specials in the future, Deadline confirms.
Apple TV+ is already working with Sesame Workshop, Peanuts and The Jim Henson Company, but now Sendak’s popular books will also be explored for adaptation. His many works include In the Night Kitchen, Kenny’s Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie’s Door, The Nutshell Library and the seminal children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are. Sendak’s longtime cohort Arthur Yorinks is noted to be onboard any new project moving forward.
Indeed, the Apple deal is set to develop multiple pieces of the late Sendak’s works over his long career, and could potentially include a project based on 1981’s Outside Over There,...
Apple TV+ is already working with Sesame Workshop, Peanuts and The Jim Henson Company, but now Sendak’s popular books will also be explored for adaptation. His many works include In the Night Kitchen, Kenny’s Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie’s Door, The Nutshell Library and the seminal children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are. Sendak’s longtime cohort Arthur Yorinks is noted to be onboard any new project moving forward.
Indeed, the Apple deal is set to develop multiple pieces of the late Sendak’s works over his long career, and could potentially include a project based on 1981’s Outside Over There,...
- 7/7/2020
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Apple TV+ has signed a multiyear overall deal with The Maurice Sendak Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the artistic legacy of “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak and promotes emerging artists in children’s literature and theater design.
As part of the deal, Apple and The Maurice Sendak Foundation will reimagine new children’s series and specials based on Sendak’s books and illustrations. Any projects that come out of the deal will premiere both domestically and internationally exclusively on Apple TV+.
This is the first overall deal that the foundation has signed with any streaming service. Through the deal, Apple will work with Arthur Yorinks, a writer-director and longtime collaborator of Sendak’s, through his Night Kitchen Studios to develop projects inspired by Sendak’s works.
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As part of the deal, Apple and The Maurice Sendak Foundation will reimagine new children’s series and specials based on Sendak’s books and illustrations. Any projects that come out of the deal will premiere both domestically and internationally exclusively on Apple TV+.
This is the first overall deal that the foundation has signed with any streaming service. Through the deal, Apple will work with Arthur Yorinks, a writer-director and longtime collaborator of Sendak’s, through his Night Kitchen Studios to develop projects inspired by Sendak’s works.
Also Read: Google Will Pay for 'High-Quality' Publishers as Part of 'New News Experience'
Sendak, who died in 2012, first rose...
- 7/6/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Apple could be heading to the jungle island with Max and his wolf costume after striking an overall deal with The Maurice Sendak Foundation.
The streamer is getting into business with the Where The Wild Things Are creator’s estate to develop and produce new shows and specials based on Sendak’s work.
It is the first such deal struck by the foundation and runs multi-year.
The deal will add more kids stories and characters to Apple TV+’s line up, which already includes shows from Sesame Workshop, Peanuts and The Jim Henson Company. These include Helpsters, Ghostwriter, Snoopy in Space and Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10.
Sendak’s best known book is Where the Wild Things Are, which was released in 1963 and tells the story of Max, who becomes the kind of the Wild Things before becoming lonely and going back home. That book has been adapted a...
The streamer is getting into business with the Where The Wild Things Are creator’s estate to develop and produce new shows and specials based on Sendak’s work.
It is the first such deal struck by the foundation and runs multi-year.
The deal will add more kids stories and characters to Apple TV+’s line up, which already includes shows from Sesame Workshop, Peanuts and The Jim Henson Company. These include Helpsters, Ghostwriter, Snoopy in Space and Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10.
Sendak’s best known book is Where the Wild Things Are, which was released in 1963 and tells the story of Max, who becomes the kind of the Wild Things before becoming lonely and going back home. That book has been adapted a...
- 7/6/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple TV Plus announced Monday that it has inked a multi-year overall deal with the Maurice Sendak Foundation, through which it will develop new projects based on Sendak’s books and illustrations.
The streaming deal marks a first for the non-profit charitable foundation, which supports the artistic legacy of the late Sendak, who authored and illustrated the 1963 children’s classic, “Where the Wild Things Are,” as well as “In The Night Kitchen,” “Outside Over There,” and “Bumble-Ardy.” Sendak wrote and illustrated no fewer than 17 books, and lent his artistic talents as an illustrator to over one hundred other titles, including Else Holmelund Minarik’s “Little Bear” book series and Ruth Krauss’ “A Very Special House,” “Somebody Else’s Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children,” and more.
Apple TV Plus will work with writer and director — as well as longtime Sendak collaborator — Arthur Yorinks to bring each project to life.
The streaming deal marks a first for the non-profit charitable foundation, which supports the artistic legacy of the late Sendak, who authored and illustrated the 1963 children’s classic, “Where the Wild Things Are,” as well as “In The Night Kitchen,” “Outside Over There,” and “Bumble-Ardy.” Sendak wrote and illustrated no fewer than 17 books, and lent his artistic talents as an illustrator to over one hundred other titles, including Else Holmelund Minarik’s “Little Bear” book series and Ruth Krauss’ “A Very Special House,” “Somebody Else’s Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children,” and more.
Apple TV Plus will work with writer and director — as well as longtime Sendak collaborator — Arthur Yorinks to bring each project to life.
- 7/6/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
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