Tag: Sanrio

Warner Bros has licensed Sanrio's iconic Hello Kitty character for an animated feature film to be produced by its New Line division, along with merchandise rights and possible spinoff projects. The deal also includes rights to about 20 Hello...

Hello Kitty was created by Sanrio in Japan in 1974, not as a cat, but rather, as a little girl/cartoon character named Kitty White. According to University of Hawai’i anthropologist Christine Yano, who will curate the Hello Kitty 40th...

It is a little-known international law that every cartoon character must eventually star in a kart racer. Hello Kitty doesn't want any trouble with the man, so now she and her very cute and very Japanese friends tear hell-bent...