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A young girl named Gabby, alongside her menagerie of animated cat friends, is making the leap from streaming to the big screen.

Universal and DreamWorks Animation's "Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie" is the latest kid's TV show to head to the box office , following in the footsteps of Paramount's Paw Patrol and SpongeBob SquarePants franchises.

"We felt like the franchise had gotten to the point where there was enough fandom to justify a theatrical event, and we wanted to expand the world," Margie Cohn, president of DreamWorks Animation, told CNBC.

Children's programming has become an increasingly important piece of the media landscape in recent years. As linear TV has given way to streaming, stud

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