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Get your popcorn ready: Former Redbox sibling streams again

Redbox may be dead, but one of the other streaming ventures once owned by its bankrupt corporate parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is getting a second lease on life: Popcornflix, which became unavailable online after Chicken Soup filed for bankruptcy last summer, is once again streaming movies and TV shows via its website and apps.

However, this doesn’t indicate that Redbox or other Chicken Soup properties are going to relaunch any time soon: Popcornflix was sold before Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment filed for bankruptcy last June, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The streaming site was acquired by former Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment investor David Nagelberg, whose trust is listed as its owner in the Roku Channel store. Nagelberg’s trust made a $2 million investment in Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment in 2019, and a David Nagelberg was subsequently listed as an executive producer of a film put out by one of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s content companies.