US-based WarnerMedia is launching a new animation studio in Europe under the iconic Hanna-Barbera name.
Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe joins WarnerMedia’s collective of animation studios that includes Warner Bros Animation (WBA) and Cartoon Network Studios (CNS) in the US.
The new outfit will replace CNS Europe, operating from Great Marlborough Productions, and will be WarnerMedia’s flagship television animation studio within EMEA.
Sam Register, president of WBA and CNS, and Vanessa Brookman, head of kids EMEA, will co-head the London-based studio.
Sam Register, president of WBA and CNS, said: “Earlier this year, we aligned two of the industry’s most powerful animation studios in Warner Bros Animation and Cartoon Network Studios and their collaboration is already yielding some very exciting results.