What if Cookie Jar Entertainment and Jam Filled Entertainment Merge In 2016.

Cookie Jar Entertainment Is A Company That Was Founded In 1976. Under The Name Cinar. It Was Then Rename To Cookie Jar. When Michael Hirsh. Purchases Cinar. In 2012 It Was Aquaired By DHX Media. (Now Wildbrain) While Jam Filled Entertainment Is A Company That Was Founded In 2007. In 2016. Jam Filled Entertainment Was Aquaired By Rocket Boat Media. Soon After This. Jam Filled Itself Aquaires Arc Productions. (Which Arc Renamed Themselfs As Jam Filled Toronto) But What If Cookie Jar. And Jam Filled. Merge In 2016
==History==
===Before The Merge===
===Cookie Jar/Cinar===
After their 1976 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, Micheline Charest, a native of London, England and resident of Quebec, Canada; and Ronald A. Weinberg, born in New York, organized an event for a women's film festival, and worked at distributing foreign films to U.S. theatres. The couple moved to New York City and formed CINAR, a film and television distribution company.
In 1984, CINAR changed their focus from media distribution to production and moved operations to Montreal, where they concentrated on family-oriented television programming, including Animal Crackers, Emily of New Moon, Mona the Vampire, and The Wombles, as well as the English and French dubs of the anime series Adventures of the Little Koala, Ronin Warriors, The Adventures of Albert and Sidney and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Spain-originating TV series The World of David the Gnome, and the English dub of Ultraseven. As a production company, CINAR was also involved in the work of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Madeline (Specials 2-6), The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Space Cases, The Shoe People and its most well-known work, Arthur, Zoboomafoo and Caillou.
The firm became a public company in September 1993. By 1999, CINAR boasted annual revenues of $150 million (CAD) and owned about $1.5 billion (CAD) of the children's television market. In 1996, CINAR acquired the library of the British animation studio FilmFair, and closed it in 1998. In February 1999, CINAR acquired the film library of Leucadia Film Corporation. CINAR also owned the Fandango Studios dubbing studio in Mexico City.
===Scandal===
The success of Charest, Weinberg, and CINAR ended in March 2001, when an internal audit revealed that about $167 million (CAD) was invested into Bahamian bank accounts without the board members' approval. CINAR had also paid U.S. screenwriters for work while continuing to accept federal grants and tax credits for the production of Canadian content. The names of Canadian citizens (generally non-writers connected to CINAR, including Charest's sister Helene) were credited for the works. While the province of Quebec did not file criminal charges, CINAR denied any wrongdoing, choosing instead to pay a settlement to Canadian and Quebec tax authorities of $17.8 million (CAD) and another $2.6 million (CAD) to Telefilm Canada, a Canadian federal funding agency. The value of CINAR's stock plummeted, and the company was soon delisted.
There was some speculation that Hasanain Panju, CFO was the mastermind behind the investment scheme along with John Xanthoudakis of Norshield Investment Group and Lino Matteo of Mount Real Corporation. It was alleged that Charest and Weinberg (and later Panju) used CINAR as a 'piggy bank' and schemed to transfer funds out from the company through a series of complicated transactions to their own offshore holding companies.
In 2001, as part of a settlement agreement with the Commission des Valeurs Mobilières du Québec (Quebec Securities Commission) Charest and Weinberg agreed to pay $1 million each and were banned from serving in the capacity of directors or officers at any publicly traded Canadian company for five years. There was no admission of guilt and none of the allegations has been proven in court. Charest never lived to see a possible outcome, as she died on April 14, 2004.
===Cookie Jar===
In March 2004, CINAR was purchased for more than CA$190 million by a group led by Nelvana founder Michael Hirsh, and former Nelvana president Toper Taylor. The company was subsequently renamed Cookie Jar.
On June 20, 2008, Cookie Jar Group announced a deal to acquire DIC Entertainment. On July 23, 2008, the acquisition was completed, and eventually DIC was folded into Cookie Jar's entertainment division. When Cookie Jar acquired DIC Entertainment, Cookie Jar also acquired Copyright Promotions Licensing Group and a one-third interest in international children's television channel, KidsCo. Cookie Jar now has more than 6,000 half-hours of programming as well as rights to several children's brands. Also it was announced that Cookie Jar was in negotiation with American Greetings to buy the Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, and Sushi Pack franchises. The deal was not finalized yet in late 2008 and with the current scenario, the transaction did not progress. On March 30, 2009, Cookie Jar made a $76 million counter bid for Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. Cookie Jar had until April 30, 2009, to complete a deal with American Greetings. In May 2009, American Greetings filed a $100 million lawsuit against Cookie Jar and Cookie Jar filed a $25 million lawsuit against American Greetings over the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake deal.
In April 2009, the company hired Tom Mazza, formerly of TriStar and Paramount Television, as its executive vice president of worldwide television. Mazza planned to broaden Cookie Jar's slate by pursuing Canadian co-productions intended for global saley. In February 2011, Cookie Jar announced a new imprint known as The Jar, which it intended to use on series targeting U.S. primetime television, as well as a slate including Lori Kirkland Baker's All Over You for Lifetime, Blah Girls for MTV, Andrew Orenstein's Lords of the Playground for CBS, and Steven E. de Souza's Spyburbia for Fox and Global.
===Jam Filled===
Jam Filled Entertainment was founded in Manotick in 2007 by Kyle MacDougall, Phil Lafrance, and Jamie Leclaire. In January 2011, Jam Filled moved to a new location in Ottawa.
===The Merge===
On June 20, 2016 The Cookie Jar Group. And Jam Filled Entertainment. Announced That They Would Merge Into To A Big Company. On August 3, 2016, The Aquistation Was Completed. Soon after the merger. Cookie Jar. And Jam Filled. Renamed Themselfs To Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group. On August 22, Jam Filled Cookie Jar. purchased the assets of Arc Productions, allowing them to expand into creating CGI animation in Toronto. Jam Filled Cookie Jar. opened a 10,000 square feet studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the fall of 2019 to work on more 2D animation projects.
On April 15 2019. Jam Filled Cookie Jar. Announced That They Would Created There Own TV Channel Named Jam Filled Cookie Jar TV Network. Later On June 20 2019. Jam Filled Cookie Jar. Announced a Deal to Acquire Fresh TV. On July 23, 2019, the acquisition was completed, And Fresh TV. Became a Subsidiary of Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group.
===Jam Filled Cookie Jar Toronto===
In 2004, U.S. telecom company IDT Corp. purchased DKP Studios from its founders. IDT had already acquired in 2003 controlling interest of Film Roman and Anchor Bay Entertainment Group.
On May 26, 2006, Starz Media's parent company Liberty Media bought IDT Entertainment from IDT, including Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman. Under its new management in 2007, the studio began a "Starz Shortz" program which has produced Bundle of Joy, Enter the Sandbox, Ormie and Lovebirds. In 2007, Starz Animation took over animating Shane Acker's feature 9 from Attitude Studio, Luxembourg. In 2010, the studio opened a major VFX wing to create all the effects for the new Starz Channel/Graham King Productions miniseries, Camelot, Alcon Entertainment's Dolphin Tale, and producer Avi Arad's family feature, Robosapien: Rebooted.
In April 2011, the Starz Animation was sold to a Canadian consortium, and renamed itself to Arc Productions. Under the new owner, the studio was planning to do more proprietary production.
On August 1, 2016, Arc Productions announced that they were closing down the studio because they were filing for bankruptcy and locked out over 500 employees after telling them there was a payroll glitch and no one had been paid. On August 10, 2016, following Arc's closure, Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group entered an agreement to acquire Arc Productions' assets in which they call "substantially all of the business". Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group also acquired 248 of Arc's former employees. Later on August 22, 2016, Arc Productions was reopened as Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group's Toronto facility.
In 2020, Jam Filled Cookie Jar announced that they would no longer animate episodes for Thomas & Friends after the 24th series, with Nelvana taking over for future productions.
==List Of Changes==
*Cookie Jar Entertainment Would Remain Indipendent Until 2016 Where Cookie Jar And Jam Filled Would Merge.
*They Would Renamed Themselfs To Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group.
*They Would Formed A TV Network (Jam Filled Cookie Jar TV Network) And A Video Game Studio. (Jam Filled Cookie Jar Interactive)
*Fresh TV Would Be Aquired By Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group On June 20 2019.
*Arc Production Would Renamed Itself To Jam Filled Cookie Jar Toronto.
*List Of Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group Shows
*List Of Jam Filled Cookie Jar Entertainment Group Films
*List Of Jam Filled Cookie Jar TV Network Shows
*List Of Jam Filled Cookie Jar Interactive Games