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Genius Brands International Expands Its Global Distribution With New International Broadcast, Home Entertainment and Digital Licensing Partners

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Thomas Edison's Secret Lab, Stan Lee's Mighty 7 and Baby Genius® Newly Available in New Territories

BEVERLY HILLS, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2015) - Genius Brands International, Inc. "GBI" (OTCQB: GNUS), a global content and brand management company dedicated to providing entertaining and enriching 'content with a purpose' for toddlers to tweens, announced several new distribution partners for its growing portfolio of original content including Stan Lee's Mighty 7, Thomas Edison's Secret Lab and the library of Baby Genius® videos and music. The announcement was made today by GBI's Senior Vice President of Distribution Andrew Berman.

GBI has finalized several new distribution partners for Stan Lee's Mighty 7, the animated super hero movie from legendary comic book creator Stan Lee. France's TF1 has acquired all European, French-speaking VOD, SVOD, and EST rights to the movie. Leading Canadian broadcaster Teletoon has acquired the rights for Canadian broadcast. The UK's CSC Media has secured rights for its free-to-air POP channel, and The Movie Partnership will represent all digital rights in the UK. Beirut, Lebanon based Telepictures Promoters has acquired free-to-air television rights for all Arabic speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

GBI has also licensed free-to-air broadcast television rights in all Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa to Telepictures Promoters for its newest animated series Thomas Edison's Secret Lab, which brings the genius inventor to life and makes science fun for kids. E-Vision has acquired the exclusive Pay TV rights for the series in the United Arab Emirates. Thomas Edison's Secret Lab will debut in April 2015 on US public television stations.

Additionally, GBI has partnered with Taiwan based Lai's Intelligence Network, Inc. for a Baby Genius audio picture book.

"With more content in the marketplace than ever before, Genius Brands' mission to provide entertaining yet enriching programming with global appeal is proving to strike a chord with broadcasters around the world as well as parents and teachers," comments Berman. "Our growing portfolio of programs for toddlers to tweens offers a wide variety of stimulating topics for kids."

About Stan Lee's Mighty 7
In the 90-minute animated action adventure movie, Stan Lee's Mighty 7, Stan Lee stars as animated version of himself. As a legendary superhero creator, Lee teaches a crew of alien prisoners and their jailers, who have crash-landed on Earth, how to work together and use their powers to become superheroes. The movie features an all-star cast, including Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Jim Belushi (The Defenders), Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory), Darren Criss (Glee), Flea (of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers), Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger), Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), Michael Ironside (Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising) and Christian Slater (Breaking In). Stan Lee's Mighty 7 premiered in the US in 2014 on Discovery Family Channel.