Kiss sells catalog, name, IP to Pophouse Entertainment Group – Boston 25 News

You’d by no means suppose you’d have steel gods Kiss in the identical sentence as ABBA, however a deal has been struck between Kiss and the corporate co-founded by the Swedish band’s Björn Ulvaeus.

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Pophouse Leisure Group, which Ulvaeus co-founded, is now the proprietor of Kiss’ catalog, model title and mental property (IP) after each side signed a deal estimated to be greater than $300 million, The Associated Press reported.

Pophouse and Kiss had partnered prior to now when the rock band created digitized avatars of themselves which debuted throughout Kiss’ last night time of their farewell tour. The digital band was created by George Lucas’ Industrial Mild & Magic in a partnership with Pophouse utilizing expertise that additionally introduced ABBA again to the stage collectively.

The avatar model of Kiss is predicted to start in some type in 2027 in North America, Sundin mentioned.

“ABBA Voyage” began in London in July 2022, grossing greater than $1 million per week, Selection reported. There are plans to take “Voyage” on a world tour.

Pophouse CEO Per Sundin mentioned there is also a biopic, documentary and Kiss expertise within the works.

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons mentioned it was not an acquisition including that the band shall be working carefully with Pophouse to collaborate.

“We’ll keep dedicated to this. It’s our child,” he mentioned.

“Kiss has bought greater than 100 million data worldwide and has all through their 50-year profession continued to push the boundaries in fashionable tradition. The band’s enigmatic personas, unparalleled band attributes, and iconic imagery have made them a cultural power and a legendary act with multigenerational attraction,” Sundin mentioned, based on Variety.

“We’ll safeguard and enrich this legacy by way of future international endeavors, by respiratory new life into their characters and personas whereas additionally leveraging and elevating the visible world of KISS.”

Kiss began in 1973 when Simmons and Paul Stanley had carried out collectively in a band known as Depraved Lester and signed with Casablanca Data. They introduced on Ace Frehley and Peter Criss and whereas the group has modified a number of instances through the years, Simmons and Stanley had been the bedrock of the group, Selection reported.

Pophouse additionally owns a majority share of Cyndi Lauper’s music and is engaged on an “immersive theater piece” that takes followers again in time to the New York of the “True Colours” singer, the AP reported.

Via the years FEBRUARY 18: (L-R) Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of the rock and roll band Kiss pose for a portrait for the quilt of their self-entitled first album “Kiss” which was launched on February 18, 1974. (Photograph by Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photos) (Ginny Winn/Getty Photos)

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