UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 10, 2018

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (203) 861-4000

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of Holdco under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company x

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

As previously disclosed, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement, dated June 27, 2018, between the Company and Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., as representative of the several underwriters named therein for the sale of shares of the Company’s 9.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001, which included a grant to the underwriters’ of an over-allotment option. On July 10, 2018, the Company consummated the closing of the sale of 46,497 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s 9.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock as a result of the partial exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. The Shares were sold at a price of $25.00 per share. The sale of the Shares generated total net proceeds, after payment of the total underwriting fees, of $1,092,679.

On July 10, 2018, the Company issued a press release announcing the consummation of the sale of the Shares pursuant to the over-allotment option. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.