On Day 1 of MIPCOM, Stephen Davis, President of Hasbro Studios signed a production agreement with Malaysia’s Vision Animation and Australia’s Moody Street Kids during the Creative Malaysia Networking Reception. The deal signing between Hasbro, Vision Animation and Moody Street Kids, was witnessed by H.E. Dato’ Sri Kamaruddin Siaraf. Stephen Davis, President of Hasbro Studios, Low Huoi Seong, Managing Director of Vision Animation and Gill Carr, Managing Director of Moody Street Kids signed a multi-million dollar production agreement for the animated TV series“Transformers – Rescue Bots (Season 2)” (26 eps x 30 mins), a production to be undertaken jointly by Vision Animation and Moody Street Kids, with work distributed between Malaysia, Australia, Canada and USA.
He mentioned that in order to stay competitive, it was important to work with experienced producers from Asia, and co-producing with Malaysia is an ideal choice. He praised the Malaysian Government for creating a conducive creative eco-system for international producers like himself during his speech at the networking reception.