Atlantyca Entertainment S.p.A

Atlantyca Entertainment was established in September 2006, by leading Italian publishing entrepreneur and creator Pietro Marietti who with Elisabetta Dami, produced one of today's most successful junior publishing sensations, the celebrated kids' book series "Geronimo Stilton". A trans-media entertainment company with Production & Distribution, Licensing, Publishing and Foreign Rights Sales Department, Atlantyca Entertainment seeks co-production partners (and to acquire third party properties) to produce content for TV, movies, books, multi-media and consumer products. The company, along with co-production partner Moonscoop, produced the animated series "Geronimo Stilton", which launched throughout Europe in fall of 2009. The two companies are currently in production on Season II. Atlantyca is a co-production partner and distributor (Italy only) for the animated series "Dive Olly Dive" (Season II). Atlantyca's Foreign Rights Sales Departments, the licensor of the "Geronimo Stilton" book series that is responsible for seeking new business opportunities for the books and all of its character spin-off franchises, has secured deals with more than 40 publishers such as Scholastic US, Random House US, Editorial Planeta in Spain and South America, Sun Ya in Hong Kong, 21st Century Publishing House in Mainland China and Gakken in Japan. The Publishing Department aims to create, develop and produce loosely based book series based on new and popular animated series, and is currently developing novels for Moonscoop's "Code Lyoko", "Dive Olly Dive" and "Hero 108". Atlantyca Entertainment is responsible for the sales of foreign rights for Dreamfarm and Piemme children's books and properties and through a dedicated Foreign Rights Sales Department has secured 2200 translation deals with over 80 leading publishers from around the world. On January 2010, the company opened an office in Bejing, China, and to date Atlantyca has secured over 300 translation contracts with leading Italian publishers that include Mondadori, Piemme, Edizioni EL. The company's licensing division manages the international licensing initiatives for all the "Geronimo Stilton" brands and all of its character spin-offs, key properties include: "Geronimo Stilton", "Geronimo Stilton the Animated Series", "Geronimo Stilton: Kingdom of Fantasy" and is the appointed Italian licensing agent for "Le Petit Prince": for Moonscoop's "Code Lyoko", and "Dive Olly Dive", and FitzRoy Media's "Funny Face" icon animated fruit characters.