Rainbow Theater

Rainbow Theater is a monthly movie block that airs on free-to-air children's network Red Princess. It airs every third Friday and on the following Saturday on ION Television. It launched on January 18, 2019 with the movie "Babar The Movie"

The block mostly aired movies made by WildBrain/Nelvana/Universal/MGM but also aired movies from other studios as well. G, PG and PG-13 rated movies air on the block. With R rated movies airing on Purple Queen instead. The block often starts at 7 PM but if it's rated PG-13, then it starts at 9 PM instead. With films having a "Strong" PG-13 rating often being strongly edited.

Origins
On January 8, 2019, E.W. Scripps announced that Red Princess would air a movie every third Friday. The block's operator was a huge battle between MGM, WildBrain and Nelvana. Nelvana won the bid and became the operator for the block.

Movie lineup
NOTE: Movies in italic mean that they're enhanced with THX and the logo appears at the beginning.

2019

 * January 18 - Babar the Movie (Nelvana/Warner Bros.)
 * February 15 - All Dogs Go to Heaven (MGM)
 * March 15 - Paddington (WildBrain and The Weinsten Company)
 * April 19 - Pokemon: The First Movie (The Pokemon Company/Warner Bros.)
 * May 17 - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Nickelodeon Movies/Paramount)
 * June 21 - The Angry Birds Movie (Sony Pictures)
 * July 19 - The Swan Princess (MGM/Nest Entertainment)
 * August 16 - Madeline: Lost in Paris (WildBrain/Paramount)
 * September 20 - Go! Anpanman: The Secret of Building Block Castle (TMS Entertainment/Paramount)
 * October 18 - Shrek (Dreamworks)
 * November 15 - Tamagotchi the Movie (OLM/NAIV Post/Paramount/WildBrain)
 * December 20 - Nepola's Odyssey (Universal)

2020

 * January 19 - Digimon the Movie (Toei/20th Century Fox)
 * February 21 - Dusk and Dawn (Dreamworks)
 * March 20 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount)
 * April 17 - Madeline in Tahiti (WildBrain/Paramount)
 * May 15 - Ringing Bell (Sanrio)
 * June 19 - Watership Down (Criterion)
 * July 17 - Pippi Lonstocking (Nelvana/Warner Bros.)
 * August 21 - Iron Man (Marvel)
 * September 18 - Kit Mineko (Dreamworks)
 * October 16 - The Larva Princesses (Paramount/WildBrain)
 * November 20 - Go! Anpanman: Rinrin the Fairy's Secret (TMS Entertainment/Paramount)
 * December 18 - Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Warner Bros)

2021

 * January 17 - SpongeBob: Sponge out of Water (Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies)
 * February 19 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Disney)
 * March 19 - Tamagotchi the movie 2: Happiest Story in the Universe (Bandai Visual/Studio Rainbow/Paramount)
 * April 16 - Avengers: Infinity War/End Game (Double special) (Disney/Marvel)
 * May 21 - A Journey Through Fairyland (Sanrio)
 * June 18 - Winds of Change (Sanrio)
 * July 16 - Willa's Wild Movie (20th Century Fox/Nelvana)
 * August 20 - The Simpsons Movie (20th Century Fox)