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(in thousands, except for share data)
−Removed: September 30, 2025
+Added: March 31, 2026
December 31, 2025
Current Assets:
−Removed: Restricted Cash
Investments in Marketable Securities (amortized cost of $ 982 and $ 3,953 , respectively)
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Finance Lease Right-of-Use Assets, net
−Removed: Notes and Accounts Receivable from Related Party
Film and Television Costs, net
−Removed: Tax Credits Receivable (net of allowance of $ 402 and $ 421 , respectively)
Investment in Your Family Entertainment AG
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Deferred Revenue
−Removed: Operating Lease Liabilities, Net Current Portion
−Removed: Finance Lease Liabilities, Net Current Portion
+Added: Operating Lease Liabilities, Net of Current Portion
+Added: Finance Lease Liabilities, Net of Current Portion
Deferred Tax Liability, net
Factoring Liability
−Removed: Warrant Liability
Other Noncurrent Liabilities
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Stockholders’ Equity:
−Removed: Preferred Stock, 10,000,000 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024
−Removed: 0% Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, $ 0.001 par value, 6,000 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024
−Removed: Series B Preferred Stock, $ 0.001 par value, 0 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024
−Removed: Series C Preferred Stock, $ 0.001 par value, 50,000 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024
−Removed: Common Stock, $ 0.001 par value, 190,000,000 and 190,000,000 shares authorized, 49,338,158 and 46,285,078 shares issued and 48,913,630 and 46,209,081 outstanding as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively
+Added: Preferred Stock, 10,000,000 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025
+Added: 0% Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, $ 0.001 par value, 6,000 shares authorized,
+Added: 0 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025
+Added: Series C Preferred Stock, $ 0.001 par value, 50,000 shares authorized, 0 shares
+Added: issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025
+Added: Common Stock, $ 0.001 par value, 190,000,000 shares authorized, 56,953,978 and
+Added: 55,282,150 shares issued and 56,528,828 and 54,857,000 outstanding as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025,
Additional Paid-in Capital
−Removed: Treasury Stock at Cost, 424,528 and 75,997 shares of common stock as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively
+Added: Treasury Stock at Cost, 425,150 shares of common stock as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025
Accumulated Deficit
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−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
Production Services
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Interest Expense
−Removed: Other Income (Expense), net
+Added: Other Expense, net
Net Loss Attributable to Non-Controlling Interests
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(in thousands)
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Change in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income:
−Removed: Change in Unrealized Gain on Marketable Securities
−Removed: Realized Loss on Marketable Securities Reclassified from AOCI into Earnings
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
+Added: Change in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss):
+Added: Change in Unrealized (Loss) Gain on Marketable Securities
+Added: Realized Gain on Marketable Securities Reclassified from AOCI into Earnings
Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments
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Treasury Stock
−Removed: Accumulated Other Compre-
+Added: Accumulated Other Comprehensive
December 31, 2025
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Issuance of Common Stock for Vested Restricted Stock Units, Net of Shares Withheld for Taxes
−Removed: Share Based Compensation
−Removed: Stock Options Granted to Consultants
−Removed: Warrant Exercise
−Removed: Realized Loss Reclassified from AOCI to Earnings, net change in Unrealized Loss
−Removed: Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
−Removed: Balance, March 31, 2025
−Removed: $ ( 745,812 )
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Services
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Vested Restricted Stock Units, Net of Shares Withheld for Taxes
−Removed: Share Based Compensation
−Removed: Stock Options Granted to Consultants
−Removed: Warrant Reclassification
−Removed: Realized Loss Reclassified from AOCI to Earnings, net change in Unrealized Loss
−Removed: Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
−Removed: Balance, June 30, 2025
−Removed: $ ( 751,975 )
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Services
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Vested Restricted Stock Units, Net of Shares Withheld for Taxes
Issuance of Common Stock for Accounts Payable Settlement
−Removed: Non-cash Share Exchange
Share Based Compensation
−Removed: Stock Options Granted to Consultants
Realized Loss Reclassified from AOCI to Earnings, net change in Unrealized Loss
Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
−Removed: Balance, September 30, 2025
+Added: Balance, March 31, 2026
$ ( 770,182 )
−Removed: (1) Includes out-of-period
−Removed: adjustment of Q1 and Q2 2025 NCI attribution resulted from deferral of terms under a production financing agreement.
−Removed: The adjustment had
−Removed: no impact on consolidated revenue, total consolidated net loss, total equity, or cash flows.
Preferred Stock
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Treasury Stock
−Removed: Accumulated Other Compre-
+Added: Accumulated Other Comprehensive
December 31, 2024
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Issuance of Common Stock for Services
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Vested Restricted Stock Units, Net of Shares Withheld for Taxes
+Added: Issuance of Common Stock for Vested
+Added: Restricted Stock Units, Net of Shares Withheld for Taxes
Share Based Compensation
−Removed: Realized Loss Reclassified from AOCI to Earnings, net change in Unrealized Loss
−Removed: Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
+Added: Stock Options Granted to Consultants
+Added: Warrant exercise
+Added: Realized Loss Reclassified from AOCI
+Added: to Earnings, net change in Unrealized Loss
+Added: Currency Translation Adjustment
Balance, March 31, 2025
$ ( 745,812 )
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Services
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Vested Restricted Stock Units, Net of Shares Withheld for Taxes
−Removed: Proceeds from Securities Purchase Agreement, Net
−Removed: Share Based Compensation
−Removed: Realized Loss Reclassified from AOCI to Earnings, net change in Unrealized Loss
−Removed: Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
−Removed: Balance, June 30, 2024
−Removed: $ ( 731,464 )
−Removed: Issuance of Common Stock for Services
−Removed: Transfer - Post Reverse Stock Split Adjustment
−Removed: Share-Based Compensation
−Removed: Realized Loss Reclassified from AOCI to Earnings, net change in Unrealized Loss
−Removed: Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
−Removed: Balance, September 30, 2024
−Removed: $ ( 733,521 )
The accompanying notes are an integral part of
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(in thousands)
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
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Share Based Compensation Expense
−Removed: Loss on Debt Settlements
−Removed: Gain on Early Lease Termination
+Added: Loss on Debt Settlement
Loss on Revaluation of Equity Investments in Your Family Entertainment AG
−Removed: Unrealized Gain on Foreign Currency of Equity Investments in Your Family Entertainment AG
−Removed: Loss on Partial Disposal of Equity Investment in Your Family Entertainment AG
−Removed: Loss on Share Exchange
−Removed: Loss (Gain) on Warrant Revaluation
−Removed: Realized Loss on Marketable Securities
+Added: Unrealized Loss (Gain) on Foreign Currency of Equity Investments in Your Family Entertainment AG
+Added: Accounts Payable Settled in Stock
+Added: Gain on Warrant Revaluation
+Added: Realized Gain on Marketable Securities
Stock Issued for Services
Stock Options Issued for Services
−Removed: Credit Loss Expense
+Added: Credit Loss Expense (Recovery)
Non-cash Interest Expense
−Removed: Other Non-Cash Items
Decrease (Increase) in Operating Assets:
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Lease Liability
−Removed: Due From (To) Related Party
Other Liabilities
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Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
−Removed: Repayments from Related Party for Notes Receivable
Proceeds from Sales and Maturities of Marketable Securities
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Purchase of Property and Equipment
−Removed: Net Cash Provided by Investing Activities
+Added: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
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Repayment of Production Facilities
−Removed: Repayments of Bank Indebtedness, net
−Removed: Proceeds from Sale of Equity Investment in Your Family Entertainment AG
−Removed: Proceeds from Securities Purchase Agreements
−Removed: Proceeds from ERTC Factoring Transaction
Principal Payments on Finance Lease Obligations
Debt Issuance Costs
−Removed: Shares Withheld for Taxes on Vested Restricted Shares
Proceeds from Warrant Exercise
−Removed: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) in Financing Activities
+Added: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities
Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash
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Cash Paid for Interest
−Removed: Non-Cash Operating Activities
−Removed: Reduction in Leased Asset Due to Modified Lease Liability
−Removed: Non-Cash Financing and Investing Activities
−Removed: Leased Assets Obtained in Exchange for New Finance Lease Liabilities
+Added: Cash Paid for Taxes
The accompanying notes are an integral part of
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: September 30, 2025
+Added: March 31, 2026
Organization and Business
−Removed: Organization and Nature of Business
Kartoon Studios, Inc.
−Removed: Genius Brands International, Inc.) (the “Company”, “Kartoon Studios” or “we,” “us” or
−Removed: “our”) is a global content and brand management company focused on the creation, production, licensing, and distribution of
−Removed: multimedia animated content for children.
−Removed: Led by experienced industry personnel, the Company’s core business includes original intellectual
−Removed: property (“IP”) development, third-party IP production services, media agency, and content monetization through licensing
−Removed: and owned distribution platforms.
+Added: “Company,” “Kartoon Studios,” “we,” “us” or “our”) is a global content and
+Added: brand management company focused on the creation, production, licensing, and distribution of multimedia animated content for children.
+Added: Led by experienced industry personnel, the Company’s core business includes original intellectual property (“IP”) development,
+Added: third-party IP production services, media agency, and content monetization through licensing and owned distribution platforms.
Kartoon Studios’ owned
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a strategy of leveraging owned IP and third-party relationships to expand distribution and consumer product licensing.
+Added: The Company is
+Added: also developing Hundred Acre Wood’s:
+Added: Winnie and Friends, a new franchise property inspired by A.A.
+Added: Milne's Winnie the
+Added: Pooh , comprising 78 anchor streamer episodes, over 200 short-form episodes, holiday specials, and a global consumer products program.
+Added: The main launch is anticipated in Q1 2027, with plans to expand across consumer products, experiential activations, and live events.
Kartoon Studios also owns
Wow Unlimited Media Inc.
−Removed: (“WOW”), through which the Company established its affiliate relationship with Mainframe Studios
−Removed: - one of the largest animation production studios globally.
−Removed: Mainframe Studios is a producer-for-hire for several major streaming
−Removed: platforms and IP holders.
−Removed: To date, Mainframe has produced over 1,200 television episodes, 70 movies, and three feature films, including
−Removed: titles such as Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures , Octonauts:
−Removed: Above & Beyond , Cocomelon , SuperKitties , and Unicorn
−Removed: Academy , in partnership with leading global media companies.
+Added: (“Wow”), through which the Company holds interest in Mainframe Studios - one of the largest
+Added: animation production studios globally.
+Added: Mainframe Studios is a producer-for-hire for several major streaming platforms and IP holders.
+Added: To date, Mainframe has produced over 1,200 television episodes, 70 movies, and 3 feature films, including titles such as It’s
+Added: Andrew!, Phoebe and Jay, Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures , Octonauts:
+Added: Above & Beyond , Cocomelon , SuperKitties ,
+Added: and Unicorn Academy , in partnership with leading global media companies.
In addition, Wow owns Frederator Networks Inc.
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The Company distributes its
−Removed: content across streaming platforms, linear television, and its ad-supported and subscription-based video-on-demand services and apps,
−Removed: including Kartoon Channel!
+Added: content across streaming platforms, linear television, and its ad-supported and subscription-based video-on-demand (“VOD”)
+Added: services and apps, including Kartoon Channel!
and Ameba TV .
−Removed: Distribution partners include YouTube, YouTube Kids, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon
−Removed: Fire, Roku, Apple TV, iOS, Android TV, Android mobile, Pluto TV, Xumo, Tubi, Samsung TV Plus, Google TV, Cox, DISH, Sling TV, KartoonChannel.com,
−Removed: and smart TVs from Samsung and LG.
−Removed: The Company also licenses content to third-party networks and streaming services globally, including
−Removed: Netflix, Paramount+, HBO Max, and Nickelodeon.
−Removed: The Company owns Ameba Inc.
−Removed: (“Ameba”), a subscription streaming service with a focus on educational and entertainment content for younger children.
−Removed: a cornerstone of the Company’s subscription offerings, Ameba delivers a vast library of engaging and educational content, accessible
−Removed: across multiple platforms.
+Added: Distribution partners include YouTube, YouTube Kids, Amazon
+Added: Prime Video, Amazon Fire, Roku, Apple TV, iOS, Android TV, Android mobile, Pluto TV, Xumo, Tubi, Samsung TV Plus, Google TV, Cox, DISH,
+Added: Sling TV, KartoonChannel.com, and smart TVs from Samsung and LG.
+Added: The Company also licenses content to third-party networks and streaming
+Added: services globally, including Netflix, Paramount+, HBO Max, and Nickelodeon.
The Company also owns The
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agency focused on children’s and family audiences.
−Removed: Beacon represents over 20 kids and family clients, including Bandai Namco, Moose
−Removed: Toys, Bazooka Brands, Goliath Games, Playmates Toys, Cepia LLC, and Zebra Pens.
+Added: Beacon represents over 20 established and emerging brands across the toy, consumer
+Added: products, and family entertainment sectors, including Bandai Namco, Moose Toys, Bazooka Brands, Goliath Games, Playmates Toys, and Cepia
+Added: The agency has developed a strong reputation within the toy industry, supported by long-standing client relationships, deep category
+Added: expertise, and a consistent track record of campaign execution.
+Added: The Company believes that Beacon’s positioning within a niche, relationship-driven
+Added: market provides barriers to entry and supports durable demand for its services.
+Added: The Company owns Ameba Inc.
+Added: which operates Ameba TV, a subscription streaming service with a focus on educational and entertainment content for younger children.
+Added: As a cornerstone of the Company’s subscription offerings, Ameba delivers a vast library of engaging and educational content, accessible
+Added: across multiple platforms.
Through its investment in
−Removed: Germany-based Your Family Entertainment AG (“YFE”), a publicly listed company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (RTV:
−Removed: the Company holds a strategic interest in one of Europe’s leading independent children’s content providers, with a catalog
−Removed: of approximately 150 titles and 3,500 half-hour episodes.
+Added: Germany-based Your Family Entertainment AG (“YFE”), a publicly listed company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol
+Added: “RTV”), the Company holds a strategic interest in one of Europe’s leading independent children’s content providers,
+Added: with a catalog of approximately 150 titles and 3,500 half-hour episodes.
The Company holds a controlling
−Removed: interest in Stan Lee Universe, LLC (“SLU”), which owns the intellectual property rights to Stan Lee’s name, likeness,
−Removed: signature, and associated IP assets.
+Added: interest in Stan Lee Universe, LLC (“SLU”), which owns the IP rights to Stan Lee’s name, likeness, signature, and associated
+Added: Existing licensing arrangements include a non-exclusive license with Marvel for Stan Lee's likeness to appear in Marvel films
+Added: and a separate non-exclusive license with the Walt Disney Company for use of Stan Lee's likeness in Walt Disney theme parks.
+Added: brand partnerships include an agreement with Madame Tussauds.
+Added: The Company considers the SLU to be a core component of its IP portfolio
+Added: and is currently developing plans for expanded commercialization across animation, publishing, licensing, and global consumer products
+Added: in connection with its 2026 strategic initiatives.
Kartoon Studios’ common
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Recent Transactions
−Removed: On July 31, 2025, the Company
−Removed: entered into an agreement to sell its rights to its $ 0.9 million outstanding Employee Retention Tax Credit (“ERTC”) refund
−Removed: claims to a third party in exchange for cash consideration.
−Removed: Under the agreement, the Company received an upfront payment of $ 0.5 million
−Removed: equal to 55 % of the claim amount upon execution, with an additional payment of $ 0.1 million equal to 15 %, to be
−Removed: paid upon collection from the IRS.
−Removed: The Company is entitled to receive any interest earned on the 15% claim amount if it is collected from
−Removed: the IRS within nine months of signing the agreement.
−Removed: Any interest received from the IRS after the nine-month period will be retained by
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, the Company retains legal title and remains obligated in the event of any disallowance, modification,
−Removed: or reduction of the claim by the IRS.
−Removed: The arrangement includes a recourse provision under which the Company remains obligated to repay
−Removed: amounts advanced in the event of any disallowance, modification, or reduction of the claim by the IRS.
+Added: Section 3(a)(10) Accounts Payable Settlement
+Added: On August 27, 2025, the Company
+Added: entered into an agreement to engage in a transaction under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
+Added: Act”) with Continuation Capital, Inc.
+Added: (“CCI”), to settle $ 1.8 million of outstanding accounts payable, in exchange for
+Added: issuing 3,148,535 shares of common stock.
+Added: Under the terms of the agreement, CCI makes payments to the Company’s vendors in cash
+Added: and, in exchange, the Company issues shares of common stock to CCI.
+Added: The settlement was valued at 1.75 shares of common stock per $ 1 of
+Added: accounts payable, pursuant to the terms of the agreement.
+Added: The transaction was approved by a court after a public hearing on the fairness
+Added: of the terms and conditions.
+Added: The transaction was carried out in stages and completed in the year ended December 31, 2025.
+Added: On November 18, 2025, the
+Added: Company entered into a new agreement to settle an additional $ 1 .0 million of accounts payable under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities
+Added: Act with CCI, in exchange for issuing 1,695,072 shares of common stock.
+Added: The terms were consistent with the original arrangement.
+Added: March 31, 2026 the Company had completed the arrangement, settling a total of $ 1 .0 million of accounts payable and issuing an aggregate
+Added: of 1,695,072 shares of common stock.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company settled an aggregate of $ 0.6 million
+Added: of accounts payable, issued 977,360 shares of common stock to CCI, and recognized a loss of $ 0.1 million on the settlement, representing
+Added: the difference between the carrying value of liabilities extinguished and the fair value of shares issued, included in Other Income (Expense),
+Added: net, on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: On April 8, 2026, the Company
+Added: entered into a new agreement to settle an additional $ 1.1 million of accounts payable under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act with
+Added: CCI, in exchange for issuing 2,001,797 shares of common stock, and to settle additional obligations up to $ 0.3 million in exchange for
+Added: issuing 551,250 shares of common stock.
+Added: The terms were consistent with the original arrangement.
+Added: October 2025 Financing
+Added: On October 22, 2025, pursuant
+Added: to the terms of a securities purchase agreement (the “October 2025 Purchase Agreement”) entered into with an institutional
+Added: investor (the “October 2025 Investor”), the Company closed a registered direct offering (the “Registered Direct Offering”)
+Added: of 3,000,000 shares (the ”October 2025 Shares”) of its common stock, and pre-funded warrants (the “October 2025 Pre-Funded
+Added: Warrants”) to purchase up to 6,903,049 shares of common stock to the October 2025 Investor.
+Added: In a concurrent private placement (the
+Added: “Concurrent Private Placement” and, together with the Registered Direct Offering, the “October Offerings”), pursuant
+Added: to the October 2025 Purchase Agreement, the Company also sold to the October 2025 Investor unregistered warrants (the “October 2025
+Added: Common Warrants”) to purchase up to 9,903,049 shares of common stock, with an exercise price of $ 0.738 per share.
+Added: Each October 2025
+Added: Share and privately placed October 2025 Common Warrant was sold at a combined public offering price of $ 0.738 , and each October 2025 Pre-Funded
+Added: Warrant and privately placed October 2025 Common Warrant was sold at a combined public offering price of $ 0.737 , for aggregate gross proceeds
+Added: at closing of approximately $ 7.3 million, prior to deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses.
+Added: In connection with the
+Added: October Offerings, the Company paid to the placement agent a cash fee equal to 7 % of the aggregate gross proceeds from the sale of the
+Added: securities sold in this offering, plus $ 75,000 as a reimbursement of certain out-of-pocket expenses.
+Added: The placement agent is also entitled
+Added: to receive 7% of the gross proceeds received from the exercise of any of the October 2025 Common Warrants, if any.
+Added: In addition, the Company
+Added: issued warrants (the “Placement Agent Warrants”) to purchase 693,213 shares of common stock to the placement agent and its
+Added: designees with an exercise price of $ 0.8118 per share.
Liquidity, Going Concern, and Capital Resources
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
−Removed: the Company had cash and restricted cash of $ 1.4 million, which decreased by $ 7.0 million as compared to December 31, 2024.
−Removed: was primarily due to cash used in operating activities of $ 11.8 million and the effect of exchange rate of $ 0.3 million, offset by cash
−Removed: provided by financing activities of $ 2.8 million and cash provided by investing activities of $ 2.4 million.
−Removed: The cash used in operating
−Removed: activities was primarily due to net loss of $ 19.4 million and net change in operating asset and liabilities of $ 6.0 million, partially
−Removed: offset by net change in non-cash adjustments of $ 13.6 million.
−Removed: The cash provided by financing activities was primarily due to net proceeds
−Removed: from production facilities of $ 2.8 million, cash proceeds from partial disposal of YFE investment of $ 0.8 million and proceeds from ERTC
−Removed: sale of $ 0.5 million, offset by net repayment of margin loan of $ 1.0 million and payments of lease obligations of $ 0.3 million.
−Removed: provided by investing activities of $ 2.4 million was primarily due to proceeds from the sale and maturities of marketable securities of
−Removed: $ 3.8 million and proceeds from the settlement of the Note Receivable of $ 0.4 million, offset by the investment in marketable securities
−Removed: of $ 1.8 million and the purchase of new property and equipment of $ 0.1 million.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
−Removed: the Company did not hold any available-for-sale marketable securities, and the decrease in available-for-sale marketable securities of
−Removed: $ 2 .0 million as compared to December 31, 2024, was due to a sale of securities during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the Company had cash of $ 5 .0 million, which increased by $ 2.1 million as compared to December 31, 2025.
+Added: The increase was primarily
+Added: due to cash provided by investing activities of $ 2.9 million, cash provided by financing activities of $ 1.8 million, and the effect of
+Added: exchange rate of $ 0.2 million, offset by cash used in operating activities of $ 2.9 million.
+Added: The cash provided by investing activities
+Added: of $ 2.9 million was primarily due to proceeds from the sale and maturities of marketable securities.
+Added: The cash provided by financing activities
+Added: of $ 1.8 million, was primarily due to the drawdowns, net of repayments and debt issuance costs, from production facilities.
+Added: The cash used
+Added: in operating activities of $ 2.9 million was primarily due to net loss of $ 6.4 million and net use of cash related to operating assets
+Added: and liabilities of $ 2.3 million, partially offset by a favorable impact of net change in non-cash adjustments of $ 5.9 million.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the Company held available-for-sale marketable securities with a fair value of $ 1 .0 million.
+Added: A decrease of
+Added: $ 3 .0 million as compared to December 31, 2025, was due to a sale of securities
+Added: during the three months ended March 31, 2026.
+Added: The available-for-sale securities consist principally of government debt securities
+Added: and are also available as a source of liquidity.
In accordance with Accounting
−Removed: Standards Codification (“ASC”), Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company has evaluated
−Removed: whether there are conditions and events that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern
−Removed: for at least one year after the date the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued.
+Added: Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company
+Added: has evaluated whether there are conditions and events that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a
+Added: going concern for at least one year after the date the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued.
Historically, the Company
has incurred net losses.
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company reported net losses of $ 19.4 million and $ 15.1
−Removed: million, respectively.
−Removed: The Company reported net cash used in operating activities of $ 11.8 million, and cash used in operating activities
−Removed: of $ 1.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025, the Company had an
−Removed: accumulated deficit of $ 758.5 million and total stockholders’ equity of $ 24 .0 million.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025, the Company
−Removed: had total current assets of $ 27.1 million, including cash of $ 0.9 million, and restricted cash of $ 0.5 million, and total current
−Removed: liabilities of $ 32.5 million.
−Removed: The Company had negative working capital of $ 5.4 million as of September 30, 2025, compared to working
−Removed: capital of $ 1.2 million as of December 31, 2024.
−Removed: In October 2025, the Company closed an offering transaction and received an aggregate
−Removed: gross proceeds of approximately $ 7.3 million.
−Removed: Management has evaluated the significance of these conditions in relation to the Company’s
−Removed: ability to meet its obligations and noted the Company has sufficient cash resources and projected inflows to fund operations for the next
−Removed: 12 months from the issuance date of this 10-Q.
−Removed: Management has evaluated the significance of these conditions in relation to the Company’s ability to meet
−Removed: its obligations and concluded, that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least
−Removed: one year subsequent to the issuance of the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Historically, the Company has financed
−Removed: its operations primarily through revenue generated from operations, loans and sales of its securities, and the Company expects to continue
−Removed: to seek and obtain additional capital in a similar manner.
−Removed: In order to address the Company’s capital needs, the Company intends
−Removed: to consider multiple alternatives, including, but not limited to, the sale of equity or debt securities, financing arrangements or entering
−Removed: into collaborative, strategic, and/or licensing transactions.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to complete any
−Removed: such financing, collaborative or strategic transaction in a timely manner or on acceptable terms.
−Removed: As a result, the Company may have to
−Removed: significantly limit its operations and its business, financial condition and results of operations would be materially harmed.
−Removed: management also plans to preserve liquidity, as needed, by implementing cost saving measures.
−Removed: While management is taking these steps to improve liquidity, due to the uncertainty surrounding
−Removed: the successful execution and timing of these plans, macroeconomic uncertainty around the impact of tariffs on the toy and
−Removed: related industries, doubt continues to exist regarding the Company’s ability to meet
−Removed: its obligations as they become due within one year after the date the financial statements are issued.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company reported net losses of $ 6.4
+Added: million and $ 6.6 million, respectively.
+Added: The Company reported net cash used in operating activities of $ 2.9 million, and cash used in operating
+Added: activities of $ 1.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025 respectively.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the Company had an accumulated deficit of $ 770.2 million and total stockholders’ equity of $ 22.6 million.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the Company had total current assets of $ 30.7 million, including cash of $ 5 .0 million, and total current liabilities of $ 31.4 million.
+Added: The Company had negative working capital of $ 0.7 million as of March 31, 2026, compared to working capital of $ 2.3 million as of
+Added: December 31, 2025.
+Added: In October 2025, the Company closed an offering transaction and received an aggregate gross proceeds of approximately
+Added: $ 7.3 million.
+Added: Management has evaluated the significance of these conditions in relation to the Company’s ability to meet its obligations
+Added: and concluded, that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least one year subsequent
+Added: to the issuance of the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Historically, the Company has financed its operations
+Added: primarily through revenue generated from operations, loans and sales of its securities, and the Company expects to continue to seek and
+Added: obtain additional capital in a similar manner.
+Added: In order to address the Company’s capital needs, the Company intends to consider
+Added: multiple alternatives, including, but not limited to, the sale of equity or debt securities, financing arrangements or entering into collaborative,
+Added: strategic, and/or licensing transactions.
+Added: There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to complete any such financing, collaborative
+Added: or strategic transaction in a timely manner or on acceptable terms.
+Added: As a result, the Company may have to significantly limit its operations
+Added: and its business, financial condition and results of operations would be materially harmed.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company continues to navigate macroeconomic challenges in the animation and advertising industries, including
+Added: ongoing government tariffs and intensified competition.
+Added: In the prior periods, the Company has demonstrated resilience in its financing
+Added: activities, having successfully raised net proceeds through public offerings, and continues to explore opportunities to further strengthen
+Added: its financial position.
+Added: In parallel, management also plans to preserve liquidity, as needed, by implementing cost saving measures.
+Added: example, during the three months ended March 31, 2026, in order to improve liquidity, the Company settled $ 0.6 million of outstanding
+Added: accounts payable in a transaction under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act.
+Added: While management is taking
+Added: these steps to improve liquidity, due to the uncertainty surrounding the successful execution and timing of these plans, substantial doubt
+Added: continues to exist regarding the Company’s ability to meet its obligations as they become due within one year after the date the
+Added: financial statements are issued.
Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting
−Removed: The accompanying interim condensed
−Removed: consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in conformity with U.S.
−Removed: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S.
−Removed: GAAP”) and are consistent in all material respects with those applied in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 31, 2025.
−Removed: The preparation
−Removed: of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that
−Removed: affect the amount of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs, expenses and other comprehensive income/(loss) that are reported in the condensed
−Removed: consolidated financial statements and accompanying disclosures.
−Removed: These estimates are based on management’s best knowledge of current
−Removed: events, historical experience, actions that the company may undertake in the future and on various other assumptions that are believed
−Removed: to be reasonable under the circumstances.
+Added: accompanying interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in conformity with U.S.
+Added: Generally Accepted
+Added: Accounting Principles (U.S.
+Added: GAAP”) and are consistent in all material respects with those applied in the Company’s Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on
+Added: March 31, 2026.
+Added: The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S.
+Added: GAAP requires management to make
+Added: estimates and assumptions that affect the amount of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs, expenses and other comprehensive income/(loss)
+Added: that are reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying disclosures.
+Added: These estimates are based on management’s
+Added: best knowledge of current events, historical experience, actions that the company may undertake in the future and on various other assumptions
+Added: that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances.
On a regular basis, the Company evaluates the assumptions, judgments and estimates.
−Removed: Actual results
−Removed: may differ from these estimates.
−Removed: The accompanying interim condensed
−Removed: consolidated financial statements are unaudited, but in the opinion of management, contain all adjustments (which include normal recurring
−Removed: adjustments) considered necessary to present fairly the interim financial statements.
−Removed: Interim results are not necessarily indicative of
−Removed: financial results for a full year.
−Removed: The information included in this Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with the Company’s 2024
−Removed: Annual Report.
−Removed: The following is provided
−Removed: to update the Company’s significant accounting policies previously described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2025.
+Added: Actual results may differ from these estimates.
+Added: accompanying interim condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited, but in the opinion of management, contain all adjustments
+Added: (which include normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary to present fairly the interim financial statements.
+Added: Interim results
+Added: are not necessarily indicative of financial results for a full year.
+Added: The information included in this Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction
+Added: with the Company’s 2025 Annual Report.
+Added: following is provided to update the Company’s significant accounting policies previously described in the Company’s Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2026.
Foreign Currency Forward Contracts
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
and December 31, 2025, gross amounts of foreign currency (“FX”) forward contract in an asset and liability position subject
−Removed: to a master netting arrangement resulted in a net liability of $ 0.1 million and $ 0.6 million, respectively, recorded within Other Current
−Removed: Liabilities on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recorded
+Added: to a master netting arrangement resulted in a net liability of $ 28,711 and $ 43,438 , respectively, recorded within Other Current Liabilities
+Added: on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company recorded
a realized loss of $ 25,961 and $ 0.1 million, respectively, on FX forward contracts within Production Services Revenue on the condensed
consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company recorded a realized loss
−Removed: of $ 35,601 and $ 0.1 million, respectively, on FX forward contracts within Production Services Revenue on the condensed consolidated statements
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: Trade Accounts Receivable and Allowance for
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
−Removed: and December 31, 2024, the Company recorded an allowance for credit loss of $ 0.1 million and $ 0.2 million, respectively.
+Added: Trade Accounts Receivable and Allowance
+Added: for Credit Loss
The following table summarizes
−Removed: the activity in the allowance for credit losses related to trade accounts receivable as of September 30, 2025 and December 31,
+Added: the activity in the allowance for credit losses related to trade accounts receivable as of March 31, 2026 and December 31,
2025 (in thousands):
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Charged to costs and expenses
−Removed: Balance, net as of September 30, 2025
+Added: Balance, net as of March 31, 2026
Tax Credits Receivable
The Company classifies the
−Removed: majority of its tax credits receivable as current based on their normal operating cycle.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025, a portion of the
−Removed: Company’s tax credits receivable is presented as a long-term asset due to uncertainty regarding the timing of obtaining the necessary
−Removed: certifications required to process the tax credits.
−Removed: Management will continue to monitor the status of the outstanding items and reclassify
−Removed: the receivable to current when the timing of collection becomes reasonably estimable.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
−Removed: and December 31, 2024, $ 16.8 million a nd $ 12.7 million in tax credit receivables related
−Removed: to Wow’s film and television productions were recorded, net of $ 0.7 million and $ 0.6 million, respectively, recorded as an allowance
−Removed: for credit loss.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025, $ 2.3 million in tax credits receivable net of $ 0.4 million allowance for credit loss was
−Removed: presented as non-current asset.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024 $ 2.4 million in tax credits receivable net of $ 0.4 million allowance for
−Removed: credit loss was presented as non-current asset.
−Removed: Factoring Liability
−Removed: On July 31, 2025, the Company
−Removed: entered into an arrangement to transfer its ERTC refund claim (“ERTC receivable”) of $ 0.9 million to a financing counterparty
−Removed: on a recourse basis.
−Removed: Because the Company retained exposure to the transferred asset through the recourse provisions and otherwise did
−Removed: not relinquish control, the transaction did not qualify for sale accounting under ASC 860 , Transfers and Servicing , and has been
−Removed: accounted for as a secured borrowing.
−Removed: Accordingly, the ERTC receivable remains recognized in Other Receivables, and a corresponding liability
−Removed: is recognized for the cash proceeds received (net of any direct issuance costs).
−Removed: The related factoring liability of $ 0.6 million represents
−Removed: approximately 75% of the ERTC underlying receivable amount and is presented in the consolidated balance sheet within Noncurrent Liabilities.
−Removed: Management does not anticipate any repayment obligation within twelve months and expects full collection of the ERTC refund by the financing
−Removed: counterparty.
−Removed: No gain or loss was recognized at inception.
−Removed: The ERTC receivable serves as collateral for the borrowing.
−Removed: The difference
−Removed: between the ERTC receivable and the cash proceeds was recorded as borrowing discount, which is deferred and accreted to interest expense
−Removed: using the effective interest method (26.84%) over the expected term of the borrowing.
−Removed: Collections on the ERTC receivable are remitted
−Removed: to the lender pursuant to the agreement and reduce the outstanding loan principal when applied.
−Removed: The Company evaluates the ERTC receivable
−Removed: for collectibility each reporting period.
+Added: tax credits receivable as current based on their normal operating cycle.
+Added: Government assistance, in the form of refundable tax credits,
+Added: is relied upon as a key component of production financing.
+Added: These amounts are claimed from the CRA through the submission of income tax
+Added: returns and can take up to 18 to 24 months from the date of the first tax credit dollar being earned to being received.
+Added: As this financing
+Added: is fundamental to the Company’s ability to produce animated productions and generate revenue in the normal course of business, the
+Added: normal operating cycle for such assets is considered to be a 12 to 24-month period, or the time it takes for the CRA to assess and refund
+Added: the tax credits earned.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
+Added: and December 31, 2025, the Company had $ 18.5 million a nd $ 16.8 million in tax credit
+Added: receivables related to Wow’s film and television productions, respectively, net of corresponding allowance for credit loss of $ 0.4
+Added: million and $ 0.4 million, respectively.
+Added: The Company did not have any non-current tax credits
+Added: receivable as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025.
Concentration of Risk
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the United States are insured by the FDIC up to $250,000 per account and deposits in banks in Canada are insured by the CDIC up to CAD
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company had five and twelve bank deposit accounts with an aggregate
−Removed: uninsured balance of $ 16,710 and $ 6.7 million, respectively.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Company had seven and six bank deposit accounts with an aggregate uninsured
+Added: balance of $ 3.5 million and $ 1.9 million, respectively.
The Company has a managed
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The managed account maintained its investments in marketable securities of approximately $ 1 .0 million
−Removed: as of December 31, 2024, and no such investments as of September 30, 2025, as all securities were sold during the period.
−Removed: in the managed account are protected by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) up to $500,000 (with a limit
−Removed: of $250,000 for cash).
−Removed: In addition, the financial institution provides additional “excess of SIPC” coverage which insures
−Removed: up to $1.0 billion.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company did not have account balances held at this financial
−Removed: institution that exceed the insured balances.
+Added: as of March 31, 2026, and $ 4 .0 million as of December 31, 2025.
+Added: Assets in the managed account are protected by the Securities
+Added: Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) up to $500,000 (with a limit of $250,000 for cash).
+Added: In addition, the financial institution
+Added: provides additional “excess of SIPC” coverage which insures up to $1.0 billion.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026 and December 31,
+Added: 2025, the Company did not have account balances held at this financial institution that exceed the insured balances.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the Company had four customers, the accounts receivable for each of which exceeded 10% of the total accounts receivable.
+Added: These customers
+Added: accounted for an aggregate of 62.4 %
+Added: of the total accounts receivable as of March 31, 2026.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, the Company had three customers, the accounts
+Added: receivable for each of which exceeded 10% of the total accounts receivable.
+Added: These customers accounted for an aggregate of 54.5 %
+Added: of the total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2025.
+Added: Schedule of concentration of risk
+Added: March 31, 2026
+Added: December 31, 2025
+Added: * Less than 10%
During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the Company had four customers, whose total revenue exceeded 10% of the total condensed consolidated revenue.
−Removed: These customers accounted for 85.1 % of the total revenue.
−Removed: During the three months ended September 30, 2024, the Company had four
−Removed: customers whose total revenue exceeded 10% of the total condensed consolidated revenue.
−Removed: These customers accounted for 77.2 % of the total
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the Company had four customers, whose total revenue exceeded 10% of the total condensed consolidated revenue.
−Removed: These customers accounted for 85.6 % of the total revenue.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company had three
−Removed: customers whose total revenue exceeded 10% of the total condensed consolidated revenue.
−Removed: These customers accounted for 60.2 % of the total
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
−Removed: the Company had four customers whose total accounts receivable exceeded 10% of the total accounts receivable.
−Removed: These customers accounted
−Removed: for 67.5 % of the total accounts receivable as of September 30, 2025.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024, the Company had three customers
−Removed: whose total accounts receivable exceeded 10% of the total accounts receivable.
−Removed: These customers accounted for 53.2 % of the total accounts
−Removed: receivable as of December 31, 2024.
+Added: March 31, 2026, three customers each accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue.
+Added: These customers
+Added: accounted for an aggregate of 59.6 %
+Added: of the Company’s total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2026.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025, four
+Added: customers each accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue.
+Added: These customers accounted for an aggregate
+Added: of the Company’s total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
+Added: * Less than 10%
There is significant financial
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Fair Value of Financial Instruments
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
−Removed: there were no marketable securities outstanding.
−Removed: The following table summarizes
−Removed: the marketable securities measured at fair value on a recurring basis by level within the fair value hierarchy as of December 31,
−Removed: 2024 (in thousands):
+Added: The following table presents
+Added: the fair values of the Company's financial instruments measured on a recurring basis, categorized within the fair value hierarchy as
+Added: of March 31, 2026 (in thousands):
Schedule of marketable securities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
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Investments in Marketable Securities:
−Removed: Corporate Bonds
−Removed: Agency and Government Sponsored Securities
−Removed: States and Municipalities
−Removed: Fair values were determined
−Removed: for each individual security in the investment portfolio.
−Removed: The Company’s marketable securities are considered to be available-for-sale
−Removed: investments as defined under FASB ASC 320, Investments – Debt and Equity Securities .
−Removed: An allowance for credit loss was not
−Removed: recorded for the marketable securities as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
−Removed: Refer to Note 5 for additional details.
−Removed: New Accounting Standards Issued but Not Yet
−Removed: In December 2023, the FASB
−Removed: issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740):
−Removed: Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures , which requires that an entity, on an
−Removed: annual basis, disclose additional income tax information, primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid.
−Removed: The amendment
−Removed: in the ASU is intended to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures.
−Removed: The amendments in this ASU are effective
−Removed: for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
−Removed: The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of this
−Removed: ASU will have on the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures, which is expected to result in enhanced disclosures in
−Removed: the annual report for the year 2025.
+Added: Investment in Equity Interest:
+Added: Investment in YFE
+Added: Foreign Currency Forward Contracts:
+Added: Foreign Currency Forward Contracts, net:
+Added: The following table presents
+Added: the fair values of the Company's financial instruments measured on a recurring basis, categorized within the fair value hierarchy as
+Added: of December 31, 2025 (in thousands):
+Added: Total Fair Value
+Added: Investments in Marketable Securities:
+Added: Investment in Equity Interest:
+Added: Investment in YFE
+Added: Foreign Currency Forward Contracts:
+Added: Foreign Currency Forward Contracts, net:
+Added: There were no transfers between
+Added: Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 during the three months ended March 31, 2026.
+Added: No allowance for credit losses was recorded for marketable
+Added: securities as of March 31, 2026 or December 31, 2025.
+Added: For a description of the Company's fair value methodologies and classification
+Added: policies, refer to Note 2 in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, filed with the Securities
+Added: and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2026.
+Added: New Accounting Standards Issued but Not Yet Adopted
In November, 2024 the FASB
−Removed: issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement — Reporting Comprehensive Income — Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40):
+Added: issued Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) 2024-03, Income Statement — Reporting Comprehensive Income — Expense
+Added: Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40):
Disaggregation of Income Statement Expense.
−Removed: This update mandates that public companies provide more detailed information about specific
−Removed: expenses in their financial statement notes.
−Removed: The effective date for this guidance is annual reporting periods beginning after December
−Removed: 15, 2026, with interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The Company is in the process
−Removed: of evaluating the impact that the adoption of this ASU will have on the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures, which
−Removed: is expected to result in enhanced disclosures.
+Added: This update mandates that public companies
+Added: provide more detailed information about specific expenses in their financial statement notes.
+Added: The effective date for this guidance is
+Added: annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, with interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
+Added: Early adoption
+Added: is permitted.
+Added: The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of this ASU will have to the consolidated financial
+Added: statements and related disclosures, which is expected to result in enhanced disclosures.
+Added: In December 2025, the FASB
+Added: issued ASU 2025-10, Government Grants (Topic 832) :
+Added: Accounting for Government Grants Received by Business Entities , which
+Added: establishes authoritative guidance on the recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of government grants.
+Added: Under ASU 2025-10,
+Added: government grants are recognized when it is probable that the entity will both comply with the conditions of the grant and the grant will
+Added: The ASU provides specific accounting models for grants related to assets and grants related to income, including options
+Added: to recognize government grants as deferred income or as a reduction of the asset’s cost basis.
+Added: The ASU also requires enhanced disclosures
+Added: regarding the nature of government grants, significant terms and conditions, accounting policies applied, and amounts recognized in the
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: ASU 2025-10 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2028, including interim periods within those
+Added: fiscal years, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting ASU 2025-10.
Variable Interest Entity
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During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, SLU generated a net loss of $ 0.1 million and $ 0.1 million, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2025 and 2024, SLU generated a net loss of $ 0.2 million and $ 0.3 million, respectively.
−Removed: There were no contributions or distributions during
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 and there were no changes in facts and circumstances that would result in a re-evaluation
−Removed: of the VIE assessment.
−Removed: Investment in Equity Interest
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
−Removed: the Company owned 5,009,005 shares of YFE.
−Removed: At the time of the initial investment in 2021, it was determined that based on the Company’s
−Removed: 28.7 % ownership in YFE, the Company had significant influence over the entity.
−Removed: Therefore, under the equity method of accounting, the Company
−Removed: elected to account for the investment at fair value under the fair value option.
−Removed: Under the fair value option, the investment is remeasured
−Removed: and recorded at fair value each reporting period, with the change recorded through earnings.
−Removed: On July 14, 2025, the Company
−Removed: sold 1,500,000 YFE shares to a single foreign investor for total proceeds of € 750,000 ($ 0.8 million) as part of its ongoing strategy
−Removed: to optimize its portfolio of assets.
−Removed: Subsequently, the Company’s ownership in YFE decreased from 44.8 % to 35.0 %.
−Removed: Before the transaction,
−Removed: the Company owned 6,857,132 shares of YFE.
−Removed: On September 25, 2025, the
−Removed: Company executed a share exchange agreement with F&M Film und Medien Beteiligungs GmbH (“F&M”), pursuant to which
−Removed: the Company agreed to transfer 348,127 shares of Your Family Entertainment AG previously held by the Company, to F&M, in exchange
−Removed: for 348,127 shares of the Company’s common stock previously held by F&M, on a one-for-one basis.
−Removed: Subsequently, the Company’s
−Removed: ownership in YFE decreased from 35.0 % to 32.7 %.
−Removed: Management concluded that the Company continues to exercise significant influence over
−Removed: the investee.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
−Removed: the fair value of the investment was determined to be $ 6.7 million recorded within noncurrent assets on the Company’s condensed
−Removed: consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: The fair value as of September 30, 2025 decreased by net $ 9.7 million, as compared to December 31,
−Removed: The net decrease is comprised of the net impact of a decrease in YFE’s stock price, the share sale and exchange transactions
−Removed: completed in the quarter, and the effect of foreign currency remeasurement from EURO to USD.
−Removed: The total change in fair value is recorded
−Removed: within Other Income (Expense), net on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
−Removed: and December 31, 2024, the Company’s ownership in YFE was 32.7 % and 44.8 %, respectively.
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, SLU generated a net loss of $ 0.1 million and $ 0.1 million, respectively.
+Added: There were no contributions
+Added: or distributions during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, and there were no changes in facts and circumstances
+Added: that would result in a re-evaluation of the VIE assessment.
+Added: Equity Investment
+Added: The Company holds an equity
+Added: investment in Your Family Entertainment AG ("YFE"), a publicly listed company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol
+Added: "RTV"), headquartered in Germany.
+Added: YFE is one of Europe's leading independent children's content providers, with a catalog of
+Added: approximately 150 titles and 3,500 half-hour episodes.
+Added: When the Company does not have a controlling financial
+Added: interest in an entity but has the ability to exert significant influence over its operating and financial policies, the investment is
+Added: accounted for under the equity method or, if elected, at fair value pursuant to the fair value option under U.S.
+Added: Significant influence
+Added: is generally presumed to exist when the Company owns between 20 % and 50 % of the common stock or in-substance common stock of the investee.
+Added: At the time of the initial
+Added: investment in 2021, the Company held a 28.7 % ownership interest in YFE and determined that it had significant influence over the entity.
+Added: Accordingly, the Company elected to account for the investment at fair value under the fair value option.
+Added: Under this election, the investment
+Added: is remeasured at fair value at each reporting period, with changes in fair value recorded through earnings.
+Added: Subsequent to the initial
+Added: investment, the Company's ownership interest increased to 44.8 % through participation in a public tender offer, bond conversions, and
+Added: the exercise of subscription rights.
+Added: The ownership interest was subsequently reduced to approximately 32.7 % through a partial disposition
+Added: of shares in July 2025 and an exchange of shares in September 2025.
+Added: Throughout this period, management determined that the Company did
+Added: not obtain a controlling financial interest in YFE, and that significant influence was maintained at all times.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
+Added: and December 31, 2025, the Company owned 5,009,005 shares of YFE, representing ownership interests of 32.2 % and 32.5 %, respectively.
+Added: The fair value of the investment is determined based on the quoted closing market price of YFE's shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
+Added: as of each reporting date, remeasured from Euro to U.S.
+Added: dollars at the period-end exchange rate.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the fair value of the investment was $ 2.4 million, recorded within noncurrent assets on the Company's condensed consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: The net decrease in fair value of $ 3.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 reflects the combined impact of a decline
+Added: in YFE's quoted share price and the effect of foreign currency remeasurement from Euro to U.S.
+Added: The total change in fair value
+Added: is recorded within Other Income (Expense), net in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: Management concluded that the Company continues
+Added: to exercise significant influence over YFE and therefore continues to account for the investment at fair value under the fair value option.
Marketable Securities
−Removed: The Company classifies its
−Removed: marketable debt securities as available-for-sale (“AFS”) and reports them at fair value in accordance with ASC Topic 326,
−Removed: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments .
+Added: The Company classifies and
+Added: accounts for its marketable debt securities as available-for-sale (“AFS”) and the securities are stated at fair value in accordance
+Added: with ASC 326, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses .
During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the Company sold all of its investments in marketable debt securities.
−Removed: As a result, there were no marketable
−Removed: securities outstanding as of September 30, 2025, and the proceeds were used for general operating purposes.
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company redeemed $ 3 .0 million of its marketable securities upon maturity.
The investments in marketable
−Removed: securities as of December 31, 2024 had an adjusted cost basis of $ 2.1
−Removed: million and a market value of $ 2 .0
+Added: securities as of March 31, 2026 had an adjusted cost basis of $ 1 .0
+Added: million and a market value of $ 1 .0 million.
The balances consisted of the following securities (in thousands) :
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Unrealized Gain (Loss)
−Removed: Corporate Bonds
−Removed: Agency and Government Sponsored Securities
−Removed: States and Municipalities
−Removed: The AFS securities held by
−Removed: the Company as of December 31, 2024 had been in an unrealized loss position for a period greater than 12 months .
−Removed: The Company reported
−Removed: the net unrealized losses in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), a component of stockholders’ equity.
−Removed: As of September 30,
−Removed: 2025 and December 31, 2024, an allowance for credit loss was no t recognized as the issuers of the securities had not established
−Removed: a cause for default, various rating agencies had reaffirmed each security's investment grade status and the Company did not have the intent,
−Removed: nor is it required to sell its securities prior to recovery.
−Removed: Realized losses of $ 8,983
−Removed: and $ 0.1 million were recognized in earnings during the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: Realized losses
−Removed: of $ 36,674 and $ 0.5 million were recognized in earnings during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, primarily
−Removed: due to selling securities prior to maturity to provide additional liquidity for general operating needs.
+Added: The investments in marketable
+Added: securities as of December 31, 2025 had an adjusted cost basis of $ 4 .0
+Added: million and a market value of $ 4 .0 million.
+Added: The balances consisted of the following securities (in thousands) :
+Added: Adjusted Cost
+Added: Unrealized Gain (Loss)
+Added: The Company holds two AFS
+Added: securities, all of which were in an unrealized gain position and none had been in an unrealized loss position for a period longer than
+Added: 12 months as of March 31, 2026.
+Added: The Company reports the net unrealized gains and losses in accumulated other comprehensive income
+Added: (loss), a component of stockholders’ equity.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, an allowance for credit loss
+Added: was no t recognized as the issuers of the securities had not established a cause for default, various rating agencies had reaffirmed each
+Added: security's investment grade status and the Company did not have the intent, nor is it required to sell its securities prior to recovery.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company did no t record any realized gains or losses related to its marketable securities.
+Added: During the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2025, the Company recorded realized gain of $ 4,454 primarily due to selling securities prior to maturity to provide
+Added: additional liquidity for general operating needs.
+Added: The contractual maturities
+Added: of the Company’s marketable investments as of March 31, 2026 were as follows (in thousands):
+Added: Schedule of contractual maturities of marketable investments
+Added: Due within 1 year
+Added: The Company may sell certain
+Added: of its marketable debt securities prior to their stated maturities for reasons including, but not limited to, managing liquidity, credit
+Added: risk, duration and asset allocation.
Property and Equipment, net
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Schedule of property and equipment, net
−Removed: September 30, 2025
+Added: March 31, 2026
December 31, 2025
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Property and Equipment, net
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded depreciation expense of $ 0.4 million and $ 0.3 million, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company did no t incur any impairment charges on its property and equipment.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company recorded depreciation expense of $ 0.2 million and $ 0.1 million, respectively.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company did no t incur any impairment charges on its property and equipment.
Leased Right-of-Use Assets, net
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Schedule of leased right of use assets
−Removed: September 30, 2025
+Added: March 31, 2026
December 31, 2025
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Leased Right-of-Use Assets, net
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
the weighted-average lease term for the Company’s operating leases was 62 months and the weighted-average discount rate was 11.3 %.
As of December 31, 2025, the weighted-average lease term for operating leases was 64 months and the weighted-average discount rate
−Removed: Effective April 1, 2025, the
−Removed: Company executed a lease reassignment agreement with the landlord for its Ontario office, resulting in the reassignment of one of its
−Removed: suites to a new tenant.
−Removed: The Company continues to lease and occupy remaining space under the original terms of the lease agreement.
−Removed: reassignment reduced the Company’s leased space from 570 square feet to 74 square feet, and associated rent obligations, but did
−Removed: not change any other conditions of the lease.
−Removed: The modification was accounted for as a partial termination of the lease under ASC 842.
−Removed: Accordingly, the Company remeasured the lease liability as of the effective date of the modification using the discount rate based on
−Removed: the remaining lease term and payments.
−Removed: Based on the modified lease payment terms, the discount rate was determined to be 8.96%,
−Removed: and the remeasured lease liability was $ 16,042 .
−Removed: This represented a reduction of $ 0.1 million compared to the pre-modification
−Removed: lease liability.
−Removed: The Company adjusted the right-of-use asset based on the proportion of the reduction in the remeasured lease liability,
−Removed: resulting in a reduction of $ 0.1 million.
−Removed: The Company recognized a gain on lease modification of $ 4,253 in the condensed consolidated
−Removed: statements of operations.
−Removed: The remaining lease costs of $ 16,770 will be recognized on a straight-line basis over the remaining lease
Operating lease costs during
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 were $ 0.4 million and $ 0.9 million, respectively, recorded within General and Administrative
−Removed: Expenses on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: Operating lease costs during the nine months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2025 and 2024 were $ 1.1 million and $ 1.2 million, respectively, recorded within General and Administrative Expenses on the Company’s
−Removed: condensed consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: During the three and nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recorded finance lease costs of $ 0.1 million and $ 0.3 million, respectively, primarily
−Removed: comprised of ROU amortization of $ 0.1 million and $ 0.3 million, respectively.
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2024, the Company recorded finance lease costs of $ 0.2 million and $ 1 .0 million, respectively, primarily comprised of ROU amortization
−Removed: of $ 0.2 million and $ 1 .0 million.
−Removed: ROU amortization is recorded within General and Administrative Expenses and accretion of interest expense
−Removed: is recorded within Other Income (Expense), net on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025 were $ 0.4 million and $ 0.4 million, respectively, recorded within General
+Added: and Administrative Expenses on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company recorded finance lease costs of $ 48,737 and $ 0.1 million, respectively, primarily
+Added: comprised of ROU amortization of $ 44,448 and $ 0.1 million, respectively.
+Added: ROU amortization is recorded within General and Administrative
+Added: Expenses and accretion of interest expense is recorded within Other Income (Expense), net on the Company’s condensed consolidated
+Added: statements of operations.
Film and Television Costs, net
The following table highlights
−Removed: the activity in Film and Television Costs as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 (in thousands):
+Added: the activity in Film and Television Costs as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 (in thousands):
Schedule of film and television costs activity
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Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
−Removed: Film and Television Costs, net as of September 30, 2025
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded amortization expense of $ 0.2 million and $ 0.2 million, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine month ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the Company recorded $ 0.1 million of write-downs related to projects not advancing beyond the development stage.
−Removed: Based on the review performed by the executive team it was determined, that certain projects would no longer be pursued.
−Removed: The Company did
−Removed: no t record any write-downs on film costs during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
+Added: Film and Television Costs, net as of March 31, 2026
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company recorded amortization expense of $ 0.3 million and $ 0.1 million, respectively.
+Added: During the three month ended
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company recorded write-downs of $ 34,492 and $ 12,104 , respectively, related to projects
+Added: not advancing beyond the development stage.
+Added: Based on the review performed by the executive team, it was determined that certain projects
+Added: would no longer be pursued.
The Company did no t record
−Removed: any impairment charges on film costs during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
−Removed: Intangible Assets, net
+Added: any impairment charges on film costs during the three month ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025.
Intangible Assets, net
The Company had the following
−Removed: intangible assets (in thousands) with their weighted average remaining amortization period (in years) :
−Removed: Intangible Assets, net
+Added: intangible assets (in thousands) with their weighted average remaining amortization period (in
Schedule of intangible asset
Weighted Average Remaining Amortization
−Removed: September 30, 2025
−Removed: September 30, 2024
+Added: March 31, 2026
+Added: December 31, 2025
Customer Relationships
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During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded intangible asset amortization expense of $ 0.5 million and $ 0.5 million, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded intangible asset amortization expense of $ 1.5 million and
−Removed: $ 1.5 million, respectively.
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company recorded intangible asset amortization expense of $ 0.5 million and $ 0.5 million,
+Added: respectively.
Expected future amortization
−Removed: of intangible assets subject to amortization as of September 30, 2025 is as follows (in thousands):
+Added: of intangible assets subject to amortization as of March 31, 2026 is as follows (in thousands):
Schedule of expected future intangible asset amortization
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025 and December 2024,
−Removed: $ 5.4 million and $ 5.3 million, respectively, of the Company’s intangible assets related to the acquired trade names from the Wow
−Removed: acquisition had indefinite lives and are not subject to amortization.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
+Added: and December 2025, $ 4.7 million and $ 4.7 million, respectively, of the Company’s intangible assets related to the acquired trade
+Added: names from the Wow acquisition had indefinite lives and are not subject to amortization.
Deferred Revenue
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
−Removed: and December 31, 2024, the Company had aggregate short term and long term deferred revenue of $ 8.9 million and $ 9.4 million, respectively.
−Removed: The decrease in deferred revenue is primarily related to production on various shows advancing to later stages of execution of the projects
−Removed: as of September 30, 2025, compared to the progress as of December 31, 2024.
−Removed: Wow's deferred revenue balance relates to cash received
−Removed: from customers for productions in progress.
−Removed: Revenue is fully recognized upon production completion.
−Removed: Deferred revenue also includes both
−Removed: (i) variable fee contracts with licensees and customers in which the Company collected advances and minimum guarantees against future
−Removed: royalties and (ii) fixed fee contracts.
−Removed: The Company recognizes revenue related to these contracts when all revenue recognition criteria
−Removed: have been met.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025,
−Removed: the Company had no outstanding margin loan balance.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024, the Company’s margin loan balance was $ 0.9 million.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company borrowed an additional $ 5.9 million from its investment margin
−Removed: account and repaid $ 6.8 million primarily with cash received from sales and maturities of marketable securities and other transactions.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
+Added: and December 31, 2025, the Company had deferred revenue of $ 7 .0 million and $ 7.8 million, respectively.
+Added: The decrease in deferred
+Added: revenue is primarily related to production on various shows advancing to later stages of execution of the projects as of March 31,
+Added: 2026, compared to the progress as of December 31, 2025.
+Added: Deferred revenue balance mainly relates to cash received from customers for
+Added: productions in progress.
+Added: For fixed-fee production contracts, revenue is generally recognized upon completion and delivery of the production
+Added: or upon achievement of specified contractual delivery milestones during the production process, depending on the terms of the underlying
+Added: As production progresses and the Company satisfies its performance obligations, the related deferred revenue is recognized
+Added: Deferred revenue also includes both (i) variable fee contracts with licensees and customers in which the Company collected
+Added: advances and minimum guarantees against future royalties and (ii) fixed fee contracts.
+Added: The Company recognizes revenue related to these
+Added: contracts when all revenue recognition criteria have been met.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
+Added: and December 31, 2025, the Company had no outstanding margin loan balance.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the
+Added: Company borrowed an additional $ 2.6 million from its investment margin account and repaid $ 2.6 million primarily with cash received
+Added: from maturities of marketable securities.
The borrowed amounts were primarily used for operational costs.
−Removed: The interest rates for the borrowings fluctuate based on the Fed Funds
−Removed: Upper Target plus 0.60 %.
−Removed: The weighted average interest rates were 0.39 % and 0.46 %, respectively, on average margin loan balances of $ 0.2 million
−Removed: and $ 1 .0 million as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
+Added: The interest rates for the borrowings
+Added: fluctuate based on the Fed Funds Upper Target plus 0.60 %.
+Added: The weighted average interest rates were 0.15 % and 0.20 %, respectively, on average
+Added: margin loan balances of $ 0.3 million and $ 0.2 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.
During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company incurred interest expense on the loan of $ 3,195 and $ 11,070 , respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company incurred interest expense on the loan of $ 8,062 and $ 42,131 , respectively, included in
−Removed: Interest Expense on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: The investment margin account borrowings do not
−Removed: mature but are collateralized by the marketable securities held by the same custodian and the custodian can issue a margin call at any
−Removed: time, effecting a payable on demand loan.
−Removed: Due to the call option, the margin loan was recorded as a current liability on the Company’s
−Removed: condensed consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company incurred interest expense on the loan of $ 1,875 and $ 1,806 , respectively.
Bank Indebtedness and Production Facilities
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agreements as well as those of certain of our subsidiaries and related entities acting as guarantors of the production facilities.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
and December 31, 2025, the Company had an outstanding net balance of USD 13.7 million (CAD 19 .0 million), including USD 1.2 million
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recorded as Production Facilities, net within current liabilities on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
and December 31, 2025, Production Facilities, net includes unamortized debt issuance costs related to the issuance of production
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specific financing terms in respect of the leased equipment such as term, finance amount, rate, and payment terms.
−Removed: As of September 30,
−Removed: 2025, the Company has two leases remaining under this facility with finance rates of 7.52 %
−Removed: and 8.20 %, and remaining lease terms of 2 months and 11 months, respectively.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
−Removed: and December 31, 2024, the outstanding balances, net of repayments, of $ 0.1 million (CAD 0.1 million) and $ 0.3 million (CAD 0.4 million),
−Removed: respectively, were included within current and noncurrent Finance Lease Liabilities, net on the Company’s condensed consolidated
−Removed: balance sheets.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the Company has one lease remaining under this facility with finance rates of 8.20 %, and a remaining lease term of 5 months.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
+Added: and December 31, 2025, the outstanding balances, net of repayments, of $ 32,030 (CAD 44,567 ) and $ 0.1 million (CAD 0.1 million), respectively,
+Added: were included within current Finance Lease Liabilities on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Stockholders’ Equity
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
and December 31, 2025, the total number of authorized shares of common stock was 190,000,000 .
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
and December 31, 2025, there were 56,528,828 and 54,857,000 shares of common stock outstanding, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company issued 226,733 and 218,886 shares of common stock for services, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company issued 182,987 and 88,531 shares of common stock in connection with vested restricted stock units
−Removed: (RSUs), net of shares withheld for tax obligations, respectively.
−Removed: On March 5, 2025, the Company
−Removed: issued 1,462,000 shares of common stock to investor Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd.
−Removed: upon the exercise of outstanding pre-funded warrants.
−Removed: The warrants were exercised at a price of $ 0.001 per share, which represented par value, resulting in total proceeds of $ 1,462 .
−Removed: was completed in accordance with the terms of the warrant agreements, and the shares issued are fully paid and non-assessable.
−Removed: On August 27, 2025, the
−Removed: Company entered into an agreement to engage in a transaction under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act of 1933 with a third party
−Removed: lender (“Lender”) to settle $ 1.8
−Removed: million of outstanding accounts payable, in exchange for issuing 3,148,535
−Removed: shares of common stock.
−Removed: Under the terms of the agreement, the Lender makes payments to the Company’s vendors in cash and, in
−Removed: exchange, the Company issues shares of common stock to the Lender.
−Removed: The settlement was valued at $ 0.75
−Removed: accounts payable and is being carried out in stages, pursuant to the terms of the agreement.
−Removed: The transaction was approved by a court
−Removed: after a public hearing on the fairness of the terms and conditions.
−Removed: During the three months ended September 30, 2025 the
−Removed: Company settled $ 0.7
−Removed: million of accounts payable by issuing 1,180,955
−Removed: shares of common stock to the Lender.
−Removed: The Company recognized a loss of $ 0.3
−Removed: million on the settlement, representing the difference between the carrying value of liabilities extinguished and the fair value of
−Removed: shares issued, included in Other Income (Expense), Net, on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company issued 625,346 and 14,990 shares of common stock for services, respectively.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company issued 69,122 and 99,177 shares of common stock in connection with vested restricted
+Added: stock units (RSUs), net of shares withheld for tax obligations, respectively.
+Added: On November 18, 2025, the
+Added: Company entered into a new agreement to settle an aggregate of $ 1 .0 million of accounts payable under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities
+Added: Act with CCI, in exchange for issuing 1,695,072 shares of common stock.
+Added: Under the terms of the agreement, CCI makes payments to the Company’s
+Added: vendors in cash and, in exchange, the Company issues shares of common stock to CCI.
+Added: The settlement was valued at 1.75 shares of common
+Added: stock per $ 1 of accounts payable, pursuant to the terms of the agreement.
+Added: The transaction was approved by a court after a public hearing
+Added: on the fairness of the terms and conditions.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, the Company had completed the arrangement, settling a total of
+Added: $ 1 .0 million of accounts payable and issuing an aggregate of 1,695,072 shares of common stock.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31,
+Added: 2026, the Company settled an aggregate of $ 0.6 million of accounts payable, issued 977,360 shares of common stock to CCI, and recognized
+Added: a loss of $ 0.1 million on the settlement, representing the difference between the carrying value of liabilities extinguished and the fair
+Added: value of shares issued, included in Other Income (Expense), net, on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
Preferred Stock
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which may include, among others, dividend rights, voting rights, liquidation preferences, conversion rights and preemptive rights.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025
+Added: As of March 31, 2026
and December 31, 2025, there were 0 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025 and
−Removed: December 31, 2024, there were 0 shares of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026 and December 31,
+Added: 2025, there were 0 shares of Series B Preferred Stock outstanding.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, there were 0
+Added: shares of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding.
Treasury Stock
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, 404 and 217 shares of common stock, respectively, with a cost of $ 293 and $ 252 , respectively, were withheld
−Removed: to cover taxes owed by certain employees, all of which were included as treasury stock outstanding and recorded at cost within Treasury
−Removed: Stock on the condensed consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: On September 25, 2025, the
−Removed: Company executed a share exchange agreement with F&M Film und Medien Beteiligungs GmbH (“F&M”), pursuant to which
−Removed: the Company agreed to transfer 348,127 shares of Your Family Entertainment AG previously held by the Company, to F&M, in exchange
−Removed: for 348,127 shares of the Company’s common stock previously held by F&M, on a one-for-one basis.
−Removed: The shares received from F&M
−Removed: were returned to the Company’s treasury and recorded at their cost of approximately $ 0.3 million within Treasury Stock on the condensed
−Removed: consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: Upon vesting of restricted
+Added: stock unit awards, employees may elect to have the Company withhold shares of common stock to cover their tax obligations, which are included
+Added: as treasury stock outstanding and recorded within Treasury Stock on the condensed consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: During the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2026, no employees elected this option and accordingly no shares were withheld.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31,
+Added: 2025, the Company withheld 134 shares of common stock with a cost of $ 252 to cover taxes owed by certain employees.
Stock Options
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common stock authorized for issuance under the plan.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025, the maximum number of shares available for issuance
−Removed: was 13,216,767 .
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the Company granted options to purchase 100,000 shares of common stock to the music composer on the Winnie
−Removed: & Friends title song, with weighted-average grant-date fair market value of $ 39,260 .
−Removed: The options vested immediately upon grant.
−Removed: The fair value of the options granted during the
−Removed: nine months ended September 30, 2025 was calculated using the Black-Scholes-Merton (“BSM”) option pricing model based
−Removed: on the following assumptions:
−Removed: Schedule of option pricing model
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Dividend Yield
−Removed: Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: Expected life of options
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2024, the Company did no t grant any stock options.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, the number of shares remaining available for issuance
+Added: was 7,183,707 , out of a maximum of 13,216,767 shares authorized under the 2020 Plan.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company did no t grant any stock options.
The following table summarizes
−Removed: the Company’s option activity:
+Added: the Company’s option activity during the three months ended March 31, 2026:
Schedule of option activity
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Forfeited/Cancelled
−Removed: Outstanding at September 30, 2025
−Removed: Unvested at September 30, 2025
−Removed: Vested and exercisable at September 30, 2025
−Removed: During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the Company did no t recognize any share-based compensation expense related to stock options.
+Added: Outstanding at March 31, 2026
+Added: Vested and exercisable at March 31, 2026
During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2024, the Company recognized $ 23,804 in share-based compensation expense related to stock options.
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized $ 24,699 and $ 0.1 million, respectively, in share-based compensation expense related
−Removed: to stock options included in General and Administrative Expenses on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025, the Company had no unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to outstanding stock options.
−Removed: The outstanding options as of September 30, 2025 had an aggregated intrinsic value of zero .
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company did no t recognize any share-based compensation expense related to stock options.
+Added: During the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2025, the Company recognized $ 18,213 in share-based compensation expense related to stock options included in General
+Added: and Administrative Expenses on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations..
+Added: As of March 31, 2026,
+Added: the Company had no unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to outstanding stock options.
+Added: The outstanding options as of March 31,
+Added: 2026 had an aggregated intrinsic value of zero .
Restricted Stock Units
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are granted under the Company’s 2020 Plan.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company granted 400,123
−Removed: and 286,324 fully vested RSUs to the Company’s board members and consultants, with a fair market value of $ 0.3 million and $ 0.3
−Removed: million, respectively.
−Removed: An aggregate of 409,720 shares
−Removed: of common stock were issued during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 as a result of RSUs vested during the current and prior
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company granted 439,738 fully vested RSUs to the Company’s board members and consultants, with a fair market
+Added: value of $ 0.3 million.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company granted 110,968 fully vested RSUs to the Company’s
+Added: board members and consultants, with a fair market value of $ 0.1 million.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company granted 500,000 RSUs to an executive employee with an aggregate grant-date fair value of approximately
+Added: $ 0.3 million.
+Added: These RSUs vest ratably over three years from the grant date, subject to continued employment.
+Added: In addition, the Company
+Added: granted an additional 230,000 RSUs, with an aggregate grant-date fair value of approximately $ 0.2 million, to certain employees.
+Added: vest over a three year service period and are subject to continued employment.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company issued an aggregate of 437,655 shares of common stock as a result of RSUs vested during the current and
+Added: prior periods, consisting of 434,738 shares issued upon RSUs that vested during the current period and 2,917 shares issued upon RSUs that
+Added: vested in prior periods.
The following table summarizes
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Schedule of RSU activity
−Removed: Restricted Stock Units
−Removed: Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share
+Added: Weighted-Average
+Added: Grant Date Fair
+Added: Value per Share
Unvested at December 31, 2025
−Removed: Unvested at September 30, 2025
+Added: Unvested at March 31, 2026
During the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized $ 41,847 and $ 0.1 million, respectively, in share-based compensation expense related
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized $ 0.2 million and $ 0.4 million, respectively,
−Removed: in share-based compensation expense related to RSU awards included in General and Administrative Expenses on the Company’s condensed
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: The unvested share-based compensation as of September 30, 2025 was $ 9,601 which will be recognized
−Removed: through the fourth quarter of 2026 assuming the underlying grants are not cancelled or forfeited.
−Removed: The total fair value of shares vested
−Removed: during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was $ 0.3 million.
+Added: March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company recognized $ 0.2 million and $ 0.1 million, respectively, in share-based compensation
+Added: expense related to RSU awards included in General and Administrative Expenses on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements
+Added: of operations.
+Added: The unvested share-based compensation as of March 31, 2026 was $ 0.9 million which will be recognized through the first
+Added: quarter of 2029 assuming the underlying grants are not cancelled or forfeited.
+Added: The total fair value of shares vested during the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2026 was $ 0.3 million.
The following table summarizes
−Removed: the activity in the Company’s outstanding warrants during the nine months ended September 30, 2025:
+Added: the activity in the Company’s outstanding warrants during the three months ended March 31, 2026:
Schedule of warrant activity
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( 1,662,500 )
−Removed: Outstanding at September 30, 2025
−Removed: Exercisable at September 30, 2025
−Removed: On March 13, 2025, 89,286
−Removed: derivative warrants classified as a liability as issued with convertible notes in 2020 to purchase shares of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock expired and were no longer outstanding as of September 30, 2025.
−Removed: In addition, 32,523 warrants previously classified as equity
−Removed: expired during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
−Removed: On March 5, 2025, 1,462,000
−Removed: pre-funded warrants were exercised at a price of $ 0.001 per share, which represented par value, resulting in total proceeds of $ 1,462 .
−Removed: The issuance was completed in accordance with the terms of the warrant agreements, and the shares issued are fully paid and non-assessable.
−Removed: On December 18, 2024, the
−Removed: Company issued 7,894,736 Series A derivative warrants and 7,894,736 Series B derivative warrants in connection with the public offering.
−Removed: Upon issuance, the warrants were classified as liabilities as the terms did not allow for settlement in shares in all circumstances, including
−Removed: under the Fundamental Transaction provision.
−Removed: The warrants were initially measured at fair value and remeasured at each reporting period,
−Removed: with changes in fair value recorded in earnings.
−Removed: On May 14, 2025, the Company’s
−Removed: shareholders approved the settlement of the Series A warrants and Series B warrants in shares in all scenarios, including in the event
−Removed: of a Fundamental Transaction, thereby satisfying the conditions for equity classification.
−Removed: Based on this approval, the Company reevaluated
−Removed: the classification of the warrants under ASC 815-40 and determined that equity classification is appropriate.
−Removed: The warrants were remeasured
−Removed: to fair value immediately before the reclassification.
−Removed: As of May 13, 2025, the warrants were revalued at approximately $5.7 million, resulting
−Removed: in a $0.7 million decrease in the liability as compared to March 31, 2025.
−Removed: The change in value was recorded as a Gain on Revaluation
−Removed: of Warrants within Other Income (Expense), net on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and within the Adjustments to Reconcile
−Removed: Net Loss to Net Cash Used in Operating Activities on the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.
−Removed: Subsequently, the total liability
−Removed: of approximately $5.7 million was reclassified to additional paid-in capital.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025, the 7,894,736 Series
−Removed: A warrants and 7,894,736 Series B warrants remain outstanding as equity-classified instruments.
−Removed: The fair value of the outstanding
−Removed: Series A derivative warrants, prior to their reclassification to equity, was determined by using the BSM based on the following assumptions
−Removed: as of May 13, 2025:
−Removed: Schedule of assumptions
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Dividend Yield
−Removed: Risk-free Interest Rate
−Removed: Expected Life of Warrants
−Removed: The fair value of the outstanding
−Removed: Series A derivative warrants was determined by using the BSM option pricing model based on the following assumptions as of December 31,
−Removed: December 31, 2024
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Dividend Yield
−Removed: Risk-free Interest Rate
−Removed: Expected Life of Warrants
−Removed: The fair value of the outstanding
−Removed: Series B derivative warrants, prior to their reclassification to equity, was determined by using the BSM option pricing model based on
−Removed: the following assumptions as of May 13, 2025:
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Dividend Yield
−Removed: Risk-free Interest Rate
−Removed: Expected Life of Warrants
−Removed: The fair value of the outstanding
−Removed: Series B derivative warrants was determined by using the BSM option pricing model based on the following assumptions as of December 31,
−Removed: December 31, 2024
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Dividend Yield
−Removed: Risk-free Interest Rate
−Removed: Expected Life of Warrants
+Added: Outstanding at March 31, 2026
+Added: Exercisable at March 31, 2026
+Added: All outstanding warrants are
+Added: classified as equity instruments in the Company's consolidated balance sheet, as the warrants meet the criteria for equity classification
+Added: under ASC 815-40.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company did not grant, exercise, or forfeit any warrants.
Supplemental Financial Statement Information
−Removed: Other Expense, net
Components of Other Income (Expense), net, are
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Schedule of other income expense, net
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
Interest Expense (a)
−Removed: Gain (Loss) on Revaluation of Warrants (b)
+Added: Gain on Revaluation of Warrants (b)
Loss on Revaluation of Equity Investment in YFE (c)
−Removed: Realized Loss on Marketable Securities Investments (d)
−Removed: Gain (Loss) on Foreign Exchange (e)
+Added: Realized Gain on Marketable Securities Investments (d)
+Added: (Loss) Gain on Foreign Exchange (e)
Loss on Debt Settlement (f)
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Finance Lease Interest Expense (h)
−Removed: Gain on Lease Modification (i)
−Removed: Other Income (Expense), net
−Removed: Three Months and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025
−Removed: Interest Expense during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 was $ 0.2 million and $ 0.5 million, respectively, primarily due to interest incurred on production facilities.
−Removed: The Loss on Revaluation of Warrants during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 consists of $0.7 million Loss recorded at remeasurement offset by a $0.4 million fair value gain in the period ended March 31, 2025 of the outstanding 7,894,736 Series A warrants and 7,894,736 Series B warrants.
−Removed: These Warrants were classified as a liability in the period ended March 31, 2025 and a change in their Fair Value resulted in a recorded gain due to a decrease of expiration period.
−Removed: In the period ended June 2025, warrants were reclassified to equity.
−Removed: As accounted for under the fair value option, the Company recognized losses in its Equity Investment in YFE of $ 2.9 million and $ 10.3 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively.
−Removed: The losses were primarily driven by decreases in YFE’s stock price as of the current reporting period when compared to the prior reporting period, and resulted in a revaluation loss of $ 1 .0 million and $ 8.6 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively.
−Removed: Additionally, during the three months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recorded a $ 1.5 million loss on the sale of a portion of the investment and a $ 0.3 million loss on the share exchange transaction.
−Removed: This excludes the impact of foreign currency recorded separately.
−Removed: The Realized Loss on Marketable Securities Investments of $ 8,983 and $ 36,674 recorded during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, is related to the Loss of on sale of marketable securities prior to the maturity date.
−Removed: The Gain on Foreign Exchange during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 primarily related to the revaluation of the YFE investment, resulting in a gain of $ 1.8 million, due to the depreciation of the U.S.
+Added: Other Expense, net
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025
+Added: Interest Expense during the three months ended March 31, 2026, primarily consisted of $ 0.2 million interest incurred on production facilities and on the factoring liability.
+Added: Interest expense during the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily consisted of $ 0.1 million of interest incurred on production facilities.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recorded a $0.4 million fair value gain due to a revaluation of the outstanding 7,894,736 Series A warrants and 7,894,736 Series B warrants issued in December 2024.
+Added: These warrants were classified as a liability in the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
+Added: As the investment in YFE is accounted for under the fair value option, the Company recognized a loss on revaluation of its equity investment in YFE of approximately $ 3 .0 million and $ 3.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, respectively.
+Added: The loss reflected decreases in YFE’s stock price during the current reporting periods compared to the respective prior reporting periods.
+Added: The impact of foreign currency translation is excluded and presented separately.
+Added: The realized gain on marketable securities investments recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2025, reflects the gain on the sale of marketable securities prior to maturity date.
+Added: The loss on Foreign Exchange during the three months ended March 31, 2026, primarily related to the revaluation of the YFE investment, resulting in a loss of $ 0.1 million due to the Euro depreciating against the U.S.
+Added: dollar as compared to prior period and a loss of $ 0.2 million due to the remeasurement of foreign currency transactions of the Company’s non-U.S.
+Added: The gain on foreign exchange during the three months ended March 31, 2025 primarily related to the remeasurement of the YFE investment, resulting in a gain of $ 0.7 million, due to the depreciation of the U.S.
dollar against the Euro relative to prior periods.
−Removed: The remaining balance of $ 0.3 million represents the remeasurement of foreign currency transactions of the Company’s non-U.S.
−Removed: subsidiary that remained outstanding as of the condensed consolidated balance sheet date.
−Removed: The Loss on Foreign Exchange during the three months ended September 30, 2025 of $ 0.3 million is related to the remeasurement of foreign currency transactions of the Company’s non-U.S.
−Removed: subsidiary that remained outstanding as of the condensed consolidated balance sheet date.
−Removed: The Loss on Debt Settlement recorded during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 includes a loss of $ 0.9 million related to the loan settlement agreement with YFE finalized in April 2025 and a loss of $ 0.3 million arising from the Section 3(a)(10) transaction completed during the period.
−Removed: The Loss on Debt Settlement of $ 0.3 million recorded during the three months ended September 30, 2025 is related to the Section 3(a)(10) transaction completed during the period.
−Removed: Interest Income during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 primarily consisted of income from investments in marketable securities, net of premium amortization expense, as well as other transactions, including interest income related to ERTC receivable and interest income related to the Shareholder Loan.
+Added: The loss on debt settlement recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2026, includes a loss of $ 0.1 million arising from the Section 3(a)(10) transaction completed during the quarter.
+Added: The loss on debt settlement recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2025, includes a loss of $ 0.9 million related to the loan settlement agreement with YFE.
+Added: Interest Income during the three months ended March 31, 2026, primarily consisted of income from investments in marketable securities, net of premium amortization expense.
+Added: Interest Income during the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily consisted of income from investments in marketable securities, net of premium amortization expense, and interest income related to an Employee Retention Tax Credit (“ERTC”) receivable.
Each of these sources was individually immaterial.
The finance lease interest expense represents the interest portion of the finance lease obligations for equipment purchased under an equipment lease line.
−Removed: On April 1, 2025, a subsidiary, Beacon Communications Group, Ltd (“Beacon Communications”), executed a rent reassignment agreement relinquishing one floor of its office space in Toronto to a new tenant who assumed the lease obligation for that floor.
−Removed: This transaction resulted in a gain of $ 4,253 on lease modification recorded during the period ended September 30, 2025.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, a net loss of $ 0.1 million was recognized in connection with the reversal of previously accrued other income related to ERTC claims.
−Removed: Other income had initially been recorded based on anticipated recoveries from submitted claims.
−Removed: Recent legislative developments reduced the expected recoverable amounts, resulting in a partial reversal of the accrued other income.
−Removed: The amount also included approximately $ 75,568 of other income, primarily consisting of late fees from select clients on payment plans and credit card rewards.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2025, other income primarily related to such late fees totaled $ 22,323 .
−Removed: Three Months and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
−Removed: Interest Expense during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 was $ 0.2 million and $ 0.6 million, respectively, primarily due to interest incurred on production facilities and bank indebtedness.
−Removed: The Gain on Revaluation of Warrants recorded during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 was related to the remeasurement of 89,286 outstanding liability warrants which expired in March 2025.
−Removed: As the investment in YFE is accounted for under the fair value option, the Company recognized a loss on revaluation of its equity investment in YFE of approximately $ 0.5 million and $ 1.3 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively.
−Removed: The loss reflected decreases in YFE’s stock price during the current reporting periods compared to the respective prior reporting periods.
−Removed: The impact of foreign currency translation is excluded and presented separately.
−Removed: The Realized Loss on Marketable Securities Investments during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 reflected the loss that was not recovered from the investments due to selling securities prior to maturity.
−Removed: The Gain on Foreign Exchange during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 was primarily related to the revaluation of the YFE investment, resulting in a gain of $ 0.8 million and $ 0.2 million, respectively, due to the EURO fluctuation to USD, as compared to the prior reporting period.
−Removed: The remaining balance was related to remeasurements of transactions made in foreign currencies that are outstanding as of the condensed consolidated balance sheet date.
−Removed: No loss on settlement of debt was recorded during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024.
−Removed: Interest Income during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily consisted of interest income, net of premium amortization expense, recorded for the investments in marketable securities.
−Removed: The Finance Lease Interest Expense during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 represented the interest portion of the finance lease obligations for equipment purchased under an equipment lease line.
−Removed: No gain or loss on lease modification was recorded during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024.
−Removed: Other Income during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 was primarily related to late fees from select clients on a payment plan.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2026, other income of $ 28,000 was recognized from the recovery of previously written-off accounts receivable, and $ 24,810 from credit card and other rebates.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025, other income of $ 32,522 was recognized primarily related to credit card rewards.
The Company accounts for income
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in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: For the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the effective tax rate was 0%.
+Added: For the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the effective tax rate was 0%.
The effective tax rate differed from the U.S.
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due to state income taxes, a foreign tax rate differential, and a change in valuation allowance.
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30,
+Added: For the three months ended March 31,
2025, the effective tax rate was 0%.
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taxes, a foreign tax rate differential, and a change in valuation allowance.
−Removed: During the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2025, the Company did no t record an income tax expense.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, net
−Removed: deferred tax liability was $ 1.3 million and $ 1.3 million, respectively.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, the Company did no t record an income tax expense.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, net deferred
+Added: tax liability was $ 1.2 million and $ 1.2 million, respectively.
Kartoon Studios, Inc.
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subsidiaries are subject to U.S.
−Removed: income taxes and file a consolidated tax return in the U.S.
−Removed: The Beacon Communications
−Removed: Group, Ltd., Ameba Inc.
+Added: income taxes and file consolidated and separate tax returns in the U.S.
+Added: Communications Group, Ltd., Ameba Inc.
and Wow Unlimited Media Inc.
−Removed: are subject to Canadian income taxes on a stand-alone basis and file separate tax
−Removed: returns in Canada.
+Added: are subject to Canadian income taxes on a stand-alone basis and file
+Added: separate tax returns in Canada.
The Company files income tax
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state, local or foreign authorities for years prior to 2021.
−Removed: On July 4, 2025, the President
−Removed: 1 the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law.
−Removed: The legislation includes several changes to federal tax law that generally
−Removed: allow for more favorable deductibility of certain business expenses beginning in 2025, including the restoration of immediate expensing
−Removed: of domestic research and development expenditures, reinstatement of 100% bonus depreciation, and more favorable rules for determining
−Removed: the limitation on business interest expense.
−Removed: These changes were reflected in the income tax provision for the period ended September
−Removed: 30, 2025, as enactment occurred before the balance sheet date.
−Removed: The Company determined, there was no material impact to our income tax
−Removed: expense or effective tax rate, due to the full valuation allowance against the net deferred tax asset.
Commitments and Contingencies
The following is a schedule
−Removed: of future minimum cash contractual obligations as of September 30, 2025 (in thousands):
+Added: of future minimum cash contractual obligations as of March 31, 2026 (in thousands):
Schedule of future minimum lease payments
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Consulting Contracts
−Removed: Production Financing
+Added: Production Facilities
Contractual obligation
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of the minimum operating lease payments above was $ 1.6 million which when deducted from the cash commitments for the leases included in
−Removed: the table above, equates to the lease liabilities of $ 5.7 million recorded as of September 30, 2025 on the Company’s condensed
+Added: the table above, equates to the lease liabilities of $ 5.2 million recorded as of March 31, 2026 on the Company’s condensed
consolidated balance sheet.
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Related Party Transactions
−Removed: Pursuant to his initial employment
−Removed: agreement dated December 7, 2020, Mr.
−Removed: Heyward was previously entitled to receive a quarterly bonus.
−Removed: Heyward was paid $ 55,000 as quarterly
−Removed: bonus for each quarter during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
−Removed: On February 27, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Heyward’s prior employment agreement was amended to provide him a creative producer fee of $ 100,000 per quarter, prorated for the
−Removed: first quarter of 2023, for services rendered to Wow.
−Removed: Heyward was paid $ 100,000 in creative producer fees for each quarter during the
−Removed: nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
−Removed: On July 19, 2022, the Company
−Removed: entered into a Shareholder Loan Agreement with YFE in the amount of EURO 1.3 million, accruing interest at the fixed annualized rate of
−Removed: 5 %, with successive interest periods of three months due on the last day of each calendar quarter.
−Removed: The principal plus interest were to
−Removed: be repaid by no later than June 30, 2026.
−Removed: On April 27, 2025, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with YFE to resolve the outstanding
−Removed: Shareholder Loan Agreement.
−Removed: Pursuant to the settlement, the Company accepted a reduced repayment amount of $ 0.4 million, payable
−Removed: in two installments no later than June 2025, in full satisfaction of the loan balance.
−Removed: The settlement agreement became effective in April
−Removed: 2025 and the Company recorded an adjustment to the balance of the loan and recognized a loss of approximately $0.9 million.
−Removed: As of September 30,
−Removed: 2025, all terms of the settlement agreement were fulfilled.
During 2022, the Company entered
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Hills, CA 90210.
−Removed: The monthly income was $595 during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 and recorded within Other Expense,
−Removed: net in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: The monthly income was $595 during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, and recorded within
+Added: Other Expense, net in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations.
During the quarter ended September 30,
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The agreement was subject to an initial fee of $ 6,545 and a monthly fee of $ 595 that commenced on September
−Removed: The monthly expense was $ 595 and $ 0 during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and was recorded
−Removed: within General and Administrative expenses in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: The monthly expense was $ 595 during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, and was recorded within
+Added: General and Administrative expenses in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations.
On February 6, 2025, certain
−Removed: members of the Company’s executive management team, including the Chief Operating Officer, established a nonprofit organization The
−Removed: Stan Lee Foundation (the “Foundation”), which was granted tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3).
−Removed: The Foundation is
−Removed: not owned, governed, or controlled by the Company.
−Removed: The Company may reference the Foundation in connection with reputational or community
−Removed: engagement efforts.
−Removed: The Company provided limited administrative support totaling approximately $ 772 during the three months ended September 30,
−Removed: This support was not part of an ongoing funding commitment and is not considered material to the Company’s condensed consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: The Foundation is not consolidated in these condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: members of the Company's executive management team, including the Chief Operating Officer, established The Stan Lee Foundation (the "Foundation"),
+Added: a nonprofit organization that was granted tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
+Added: The Foundation operates
+Added: independently and is not owned, governed, or controlled by the Company.
+Added: The Company has no ongoing funding commitment to the Foundation
+Added: and retains no financial interest in its operations or assets.
+Added: From the Foundation's inception on February 6, 2025 through March 31,
+Added: 2026, the Company provided administrative support to the Foundation totaling approximately $ 805 .
+Added: The Company does not expect to provide
+Added: material financial support to the Foundation in future periods.
+Added: The Company may engage with the Foundation in connection with community
+Added: and reputational initiatives.
+Added: The Foundation is not consolidated in the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The administrative
+Added: support provided is not considered material to the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.
On August 25, 2025, the Company
−Removed: entered into a new employment agreement with Andy Heyward, the Company’s CEO, which replaced and superseded all prior employment
+Added: entered into a new employment agreement with Mr.
+Added: Heyward, the Company’s CEO, which replaced and superseded all prior employment
The agreement revised certain compensation terms, including a new performance-based bonus structure contingent on market capitalization
and net income thresholds as of December 31, 2025.
−Removed: The agreement further provides for the potential issuance of a restricted stock unit
−Removed: (“RSU”) award to Mr.
−Removed: Heyward, subject to the determination of the terms.
−Removed: No bonuses were earned or accrued under this arrangement
−Removed: as of September 30, 2025.
+Added: The agreement further provides that Mr.
+Added: Heyward will receive an award of 2,000,000
+Added: RSUs under the 2020 Plan and shall not be eligible to receive any other equity-based awards during the employment term.
+Added: Subsequent to
+Added: entering into the Heyward Employment Agreement, the Company and Mr.
+Added: Heyward determined to revisit the terms of such equity grant.
+Added: Company and Mr.
+Added: Heyward have not yet made a determination regarding the revised terms of such equity grant.
+Added: Therefore, the RSUs issuable
+Added: pursuant to his employment agreement were not issued to Mr.
+Added: Heyward as of March 31, 2026.
+Added: No bonuses were earned or accrued under
+Added: this arrangement as of March 31, 2026.
Pursuant to the terms of the
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producer, up to maximum 52 episodes per calendar year.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, Mr.
−Removed: Heyward has no t earned
−Removed: or was not paid any producer fees.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, Mr.
+Added: Heyward has no t earned or was not paid any producer fees.
Segment Reporting
−Removed: ASC Topic 280 Segment Reporting
−Removed: establishes standards for companies to report in their financial statement information about operating segments, products, services, geographic
−Removed: areas, and major customers.
−Removed: Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise that engage in business activities from which
−Removed: it may recognize revenues and incur expenses, and for which separate financial information is available that is regularly evaluated by
−Removed: the Company’s chief operating decision maker, or group, in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance.
−Removed: The Company’s chief
−Removed: operating decision maker (“CODM”) uses revenue and net income (loss) to evaluate the profitability and performance of each
−Removed: operating segment.
−Removed: The CODM does not evaluate the operating segments using asset information and it is therefore not disclosed.
−Removed: operating expenses include operating expenses directly attributable to the segment as well as certain shared corporate administration
−Removed: services and other costs which are allocated to the reportable segments, such as legal expenses, human resources expenses, accounting
−Removed: expenses, insurance expenses, and corporate facilities expenses.
−Removed: Segment operating expenses exclude certain non-recurring items and other
−Removed: costs, such as interest expense, interest income, share-based compensation expense, and taxes.
−Removed: The Company’s CODM evaluates the
−Removed: performance of each reportable segment based on segment operating income (loss) because it provides insight to operational leverage and
−Removed: other operational metrics for each segment.
−Removed: The Company has identified
−Removed: two operating segments based on the nature of the products and services offered:
−Removed: The Content Production and
−Removed: Distribution segment includes the operations of Kartoon Studios, Inc, Mainframe Studios, and Frederator Studios.
−Removed: These entities are aggregated
−Removed: due to their similar economic characteristics, nature of products and services, production processes, customer types, and distribution
−Removed: This segment is focused on the creation, production, and distribution of animated and live-action content, as well as licensing
−Removed: and royalty revenue from intellectual property.
−Removed: The Media Advisory and Advertising
−Removed: Services segment includes The Beacon Media Group and The Beacon Communications Group.
−Removed: These entities provide media advisory and advertising
−Removed: services and marketing services.
−Removed: The CEO (CODM) reviews revenue
−Removed: and net operating results, as allocated based on the nature of the business activity.
+Added: ASC Topic 280, Segment
+Added: Reporting, establishes standards for companies to report in their financial statement information about operating segments, products,
+Added: services, geographic areas, and major customers.
+Added: Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise that engage in business
+Added: activities from which it may recognize revenues and incur expenses, and for which separate financial information is available that is
+Added: regularly evaluated by the Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), or group, in deciding how to allocate
+Added: resources and assess performance.
+Added: Our Chief Executive Officer,
+Added: as the CODM, organizes our company, manages resource allocations and measures performance among two operating and reportable segments,
+Added: which were identified based on the nature of the products and services offered:
+Added: • Content Production and Distribution segment includes the operations of Kartoon Studios, Inc, Mainframe
+Added: Studios, and Frederator Studios.
+Added: These entities are aggregated due to their similar economic characteristics, nature of products and services,
+Added: production processes, customer types, and distribution methods.
+Added: This segment is focused on the creation, production, and distribution
+Added: of animated and live-action content, as well as licensing and royalty revenue from intellectual property.
+Added: • Media Advisory and Advertising Services segment includes the Beacon Media Group and the Beacon Communications
+Added: These entities provide media advisory and advertising services and marketing services.
+Added: The Company’s CODM decides
+Added: on resource allocation predominantly based on the annual budget and forecasting process.
+Added: The CODM considers budget-to-actual variances
+Added: on a periodic basis when making decision about allocating resources to the segments.
+Added: The CODM uses revenue and
+Added: net income (loss) to evaluate the profitability and performance of each operating segment, because it provides insight to operational
+Added: leverage and other operational metrics for each segment.
+Added: The CODM reviews revenue and net operating results, as allocated based on the
+Added: nature of the business activity.
+Added: The CODM does not evaluate
+Added: the operating segments using asset information and it is therefore not disclosed.
+Added: Segment operating expenses
+Added: include operating expenses directly attributable to the segment as well as certain shared corporate administration services and other
+Added: costs which are allocated to the reportable segments, such as legal expenses, human resources expenses, accounting expenses, insurance
+Added: expenses, and corporate facilities expenses.
+Added: Segment operating expenses exclude certain non-recurring items and other costs, such as interest
+Added: expense, interest income, share-based compensation expense and taxes.
The following table presents the revenue and net
−Removed: earnings within the Company's two
−Removed: operating segments (in thousands):
−Removed: Schedule of segment information by revenues and net earnings
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
+Added: earnings within the Company's two operating segments (in thousands):
+Added: Schedule of segment information by revenues and net income (loss)
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
Total Revenues:
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Schedule of segments by geographic area
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
Total Revenues:
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Kartoon Studios, Frederator
−Removed: and Mainframe Studios are separate entities, although according to ASC 280-10-50-11 all criteria are met in order to present result in
+Added: and Mainframe Studios are separate entities, although according to ASC 280-10-50-11 all criteria are met in order to present results in
When evaluating the Company’s
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Schedule of segment
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2025
−Removed: Content Production and Distribution
−Removed: Media Advisory and Advertising
−Removed: Less Operating Expenses:
−Removed: Selling, Marketing and Direct Operating Costs
−Removed: General and Administrative Expenses
−Removed: Other Expenses
−Removed: Segment results
−Removed: Reconciliation of net (loss) income:
−Removed: Depreciation Expense
−Removed: Interest Expense
−Removed: Stock Based Compensation
−Removed: Tax provision
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable to Non-Controlling Interests
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable to Kartoon Studios, Inc.
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025
−Removed: Content Production and Distribution
−Removed: Media Advisory and Advertising
−Removed: Less Operating Expenses:
−Removed: Selling, Marketing and Direct Operating Costs
−Removed: General and Administrative Expenses
−Removed: Other Expenses
−Removed: Segment results
−Removed: Reconciliation of net (loss) income:
−Removed: Depreciation Expense
−Removed: Interest Expense
−Removed: Stock Based Compensation
−Removed: Tax Provision
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable to Non-Controlling Interests
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable to Kartoon Studios, Inc.
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
Content Production and Distribution
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General and Administrative Expenses
−Removed: Other Expenses
Segment results:
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Interest Expense
−Removed: Stock Based Compensation
−Removed: Tax provision
+Added: Share-Based Compensation
Net Loss Attributable to Non-Controlling Interests
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable to Kartoon Studios, Inc.
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
Content Production and Distribution
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General and Administrative Expenses
−Removed: Other Expenses
Segment results:
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Interest Expense
−Removed: Stock Based Compensation
−Removed: Tax provision
+Added: Share-Based Compensation
Net Loss Attributable to Non-Controlling Interests
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable to Kartoon Studios, Inc.
−Removed: All other segment items included
−Removed: in net income or loss are reported on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and described within their respective disclosures.
+Added: In evaluating segment expenses,
+Added: the CODM primarily focuses on cash operating costs and budget-to-actual variances, as these measures are most relevant to assessing operating
+Added: performance and making resource allocation decisions.
+Added: All other segment items included in net income or loss are reported on the consolidated
+Added: statements of operations and described within their respective disclosures.
Subsequent Events
−Removed: On October 22, 2025, pursuant
−Removed: to the terms of a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) entered into with an institutional investor (the
−Removed: “Investor”), the Company closed a registered direct offering of 3,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of its common
−Removed: stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”), and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 6,903,049 shares of Common Stock
−Removed: (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to the Investor.
−Removed: In a concurrent private placement, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company
−Removed: also sold to the Investor unregistered warrants to purchase up to 9,903,049 shares of Common Stock (the “Common Warrants”),
−Removed: with an exercise price of $0.738 per share.
−Removed: Each Share and privately placed Common Warrant was sold at a public offering price of $0.738,
−Removed: and each Pre-Funded Warrant and privately placed Common Warrant was sold at a public offering price of $0.737, for aggregate gross proceeds
−Removed: at closing of approximately $7.3 million, prior to deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses.
−Removed: The Company paid to the
−Removed: placement agent in connection with the offering a cash fee equal to 7% of the aggregate gross proceeds from the sale of the securities
−Removed: sold in this offering, and the placement agent is also entitled to receive 7% of the gross proceeds received from the exercise of any
−Removed: warrants issued in the offering.
−Removed: In addition, the Company issued warrants to purchase 693,213 shares of common stock to the placement
−Removed: agent and its designees with an exercise price of $0.8118 per share.
−Removed: On August 27, 2025, the Company
−Removed: entered into a transaction under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act of 1933 with a third party to settle $1.8 million of outstanding
−Removed: accounts payable, in exchange for issuing 3,148,535 shares of common stock.
−Removed: Under the terms of the agreement, the third party makes payments
−Removed: to the Company’s vendors in cash and, in exchange, the Company issues shares of common stock to the third party.
−Removed: The transaction
−Removed: was carried out in stages and as of November 14, 2025, the Company had completed the arrangement, settling a total of $1.8 million,
−Removed: and issued 3,148,535 shares of common stock.
+Added: to March 31, 2026, the Company redeemed $1.0 million of its marketable securities.
+Added: Subsequent to March 31,
+Added: 2026, the Company granted an additional 135,000 RSUs, with an aggregate grant-date fair value of approximately $0.1 million, to certain
+Added: employees under the 2020 Plan.
+Added: The RSUs vest over a three year service period and are subject to continued employment.
+Added: On April 8, 2026, the Company
+Added: entered into a new agreement to settle an additional $1.1 million of accounts payable under Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act with
+Added: CCI, in exchange for issuing 2,001,797 shares of common stock, and to settle an additional past obligations up to $0.3 million in exchange
+Added: for issuing 551,250 shares of common stock.
+Added: The terms were consistent with the original arrangement.
+Added: As of May 14, 2026, the Company
+Added: settled $0.3 million of accounts payable in exchange for issuing 558,481 shares of common stock to CCI, and settled an additional $0.3
+Added: million of past obligations in exchange for issuing 551,250 shares of common stock to CCI.
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