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EXCLUSIVE: As it approaches the launch of its free, ad-supported streaming service, Chicken Soup for the Soul has set content deals with Kin and Reel One Entertainment and lined up a slate of originals. The service is joining the portfolio of its namesake parent, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, which also…

UPDATED with closing stock price. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, taking advantage of all-time high prices for its shares, plans to raise $75 million from a sale of its stock. In a typical reaction when a company sells equity and dilutes existing holders of a stock, investors reacted coolly to the news and…

Crackle Plus, the streaming outfit run by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, unveiled new series and a feel-good streaming service named after the parent company during a virtual NewFronts presentation. The newest member of the streaming portfolio will launch this fall and join Popcornflix and Crackle under the…

Do you think Wall Street’s sharks would enjoy some chicken soup for the soul? Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment does: It just disclosed an SEC filing to launch an initial public offering hoping to raise $30 million with shares to trade on Nasdaq under the symbol CSSE. It plans to sell 900,000 shares at $12 a…

Collateral Beauty is heading to theaters for Christmas — and opening against a formidable opponent. Warner Bros said today that it has moved literary adaptation Chicken Soup For The Soul to 2017 and given its former December 16 slot to the Will Smith drama. Collateral Beauty has had an up-and-down production. Originall…

Warner Bros has plotted the release date for Alcon Entertainment’s Chicken Soup For The Soul, the Alcon Entertainment movie based on the bestselling inspirational book series. The pic will bow on December 16, 2016, the date staked out so far by only one other film: Disney’s Star Wars stand-alone movie Rogue One. Alcon…