DeAPlaneta is an audiovisual production and distribution company based in Barcelona. It was created as the joint venture of Grupo Planeta and De Agostini.
History It opened in 2001 as a joint venture of Italian holding company DeAgostini and Spanish mass media holding Grupo Planeta with the initial intent of primarily focusing on the Spanish and Portuguese (Iberian) markets. Both groups had already joined forces with the publishing house Planeta DeAgostini. According to president , it was born out as a split from Planeta 2010. Upon the time of the company's rollout, its distribution arm in Spain included DeAPlaneta Home Video, Planeta Junior, Planeta D, while its production arm consisted of film production outfit Cometa PC and TV-movie production outfit Prodigius, a joint venture with Mediapro. In 2003, DeAPlaneta and Mikado created Argentinian production outfit KDM Films along with Oscar Kramer.
in April 2000 during the MIP-TV event, Planeta 2010, partnered with German childrens entertainment company EM.TV & Merchandising to expand the Junior brand into the Spain & Portugal territories announcing a joint venture production subsidiary to handle distribution of EM.TV's children's programming including those from the latter's Australian & American subsidiairies Yoram Gross-EM.TV and The Jim Henson Company in Spain and Portugal with Planeta 2010 and EM.TV forming a Madrid-based Spanish joint-venture home entertainment & distribution/production subsidiary entitled Planeta Junior, marking EM.TV's entry into the Spanish film & TV production industry. Their partnership would be extended one year later in March 2001, when Planeta 2010 formed an animation co-production partnership with German entertainment company EM.TV, under their joint-venture production subsidiary Planeta Junior to handle distribution to the then-upcoming shows from EM.TV such as Old Tom (which was produced by its Australian studio Yoram Gross-EM.TV) for the Spanish and Portuguese territories.
In March 2002, Planeta 2010 was rebranded into DeAPlaneta when its Spanish publishing parent Grupo Planeta had partnered with Italian publishing & video distribution company De Agostini to create a new traditional mulitplatform distribution company.https://variety.com/2002/biz/news/de-agostini-planeta-wed-1117864356/
In December 2002 following the rebranding of Planeta 2010 to DeAPlaneta, DeAPlaneta had joined forces with Spanish mulitmedia & audiovisual company Mediapro to form a joint-venture TV movie production label called Prodigius Audiovisual to produce TV-movies with Jaume Santacana had been appointed to handle the joint-venture label Prodiguis Audiovisual via director.
In August 2004, DeAPlaneta and German media company EM.TV & Merchandising had expanded their joint venture production company Planeta Junior into Italy through Italian publishing company De Agostini.
In April 2006, the company announced the launch of an international sales division.
In March 2019, DeAPlaneta's subsidiary Planeta Junior announced the merging of its European operations into one production organisation with Planeta Junior will shift their focus into France.
In December 2021, DeAPlaneta and Planeta Junior announced the merging of the two companies including DeAPlaneta's division DeAPlaneta Kids & Families together into one production and distribution company by renaming DeAPlaneta into a new name called DeAPlaneta Entertainment as part of their strategic reorganisation with the rebranded company will focus on three genre cores
In January 2023, DeAPlaneta Entertainment acquired the film & television catalogue of Madrid-based Spanish animation production studio BRB Interactional in order for DeAPlaneta Entertainment to expand their children's entertainment portfolio.
In February 2025, DeAPlaneta Entertainment entered a European distribution and licensing partnership with American entertainment company The Jim Henson Company to handle several Henson's properties such as Fraggle Rock in European territories.
Releases
+ Release date Title Director(s) 26 January 2024 The Three Musketeers: Milady Martin Bourboulon 23 February 2024 Políticamente incorrectos Arantxa Echevarría 5 April 2024 Wicked Little Letters Thea Sharrock 19 April 2024 Civil War Alex Garland 17 May 2024 Disco, Ibiza, Locomía Kike Maíllo 3 July 2024 Boy Kills World Moritz Mohr 22 November 2024 Raqqa: Spy vs. Spy Gerardo Herrero 5 December 2024 ¿Quién es quién? Martín Cuervo 20 December 2024 Conclave Edward Berger 1 January 2025 Heretic Scott Beck, Bryan Woods 21 February 2025 Goodrich Hallie Meyers-Shyer 12 June 2025 All in Favor Santiago Requejo
Television series Title Years Network Notes Squish 2019–2020 NeoxGulli & Canal J (France) co-production with Cottonwood Media Milo 2021–present 5 (United Kingdom) co-production with Fourth Wall Monster Shaker 2024–present Clan TVEGulli & M6 (France)Ketnet (Belgium) co-production with GO-N Productions and Umedia Underdog 2025–present Gulli & M6 (France)Rai Gulp (Italy) co-production with Superprod Animation, Red Monk Studio and DreamWorks ClassicsA reboot of the 1960s series by W. Watts Biggers Karters coming 2026 Cartoonito (EMEA) co-production with Method Animation Magic Lilly TBA Clan TVE & SX3Super RTL (Germany) co-production with B.Water Animation Studios and The Magic Lilly Company Untitled Bernard reboot TBA TBA co-production with Alpha Group
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