Frederator Films Comes to Life in 2 Dimensions

Frederator Films Comes to Life in 2 Dimensions

FRED SEIBERT AND Producers KOLDE AND GARDNER OPEN FILM DIVISION; ANNOUNCE FIRST THREE FILMS IN PRODUCTION SLATE

LOS ANGELES, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Frederator Studios founder Fred Seibert announced plans today to launch Frederator Films, an animated feature film company with a mission to produce 2-D animated genre movies budgeted below $20 million. Seibert is launching the company with Kevin Kolde and Eric Gardner, with all three acting as producers on the projects.

Frederator Films has over a dozen projects on its initial development slate, the first three of which were announced today, each representing a different genre:

   -- A feature based on Samurai Jack, with original creator Genndy      Tartakovsky attached to write and direct.  The seminal, Emmy-Award      winning, animated TV series aired on Cartoon Network from 2001 until      2004.  The Russian-born American animator is also renowned for the      series Dexter's Laboratory and Star Wars: Clone Wars.    -- The Neverhood, a film based on the cult favorite claymation PC-based      computer adventure game created by Doug TenNapel and released by      Dreamworks Studios in 1996.  TenNapel has signed on to write and direct      the feature length film, which will be painstakingly shot in      Claymation.  TenNapel is an Eisner award-winning graphic novelist, has      created a number of computer and video games including Earthworm Jim      and Skullmonkeys, and the animated series Earthworm Jim and      "Catscratch" for Nickelodeon.    -- The Seven Deadly Sins is a hip-hop animated feature.  The film will be      written, designed, and directed by flash animator Dan Meth. Renowned      personality and boxing promoter Don King is the first voice actor      attached to the project.   

Production on the first film, Seven Deadly Sins, is expected to commence in the fall of 2007. Frederator plans to produce two films a year. Principal production will be located in Hollywood and New York.

"Our studio's successes have been built on the best creative talents in the animation business. Genndy Tartakovsky, Doug TenNapel, and Dan Meth are continuing a tradition of original cartoons we began in 1998 and moving it into feature films," explains Seibert

Gardner added, "Fred is the master at identifying voids in the marketplace and filling them with paradigm-shifting content -- there has been a dearth of both 2D and genre animated feature product which Frederator Films will be rectifying, much to the delight of young males everywhere."

Frederator Films' producers each bring a unique range of capabilities and experience to the company. Fred Seibert, the former president of Hanna- Barbera and the original creative director of MTV, opened Frederator Studios in 1998, an independent American animation studio producing original cartoons. Seibert's debut production for Cartoon Network was What A Cartoon!, which spun off a number of hit series including Cow & Chicken, Dexter's Laboratory, and Powerpuff Girls. Moving to Nickelodeon, he continued his streak with The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, and My Life as a Teenage Robot. Kevin Kolde is a veteran producer who ran Spumco, John Kricfalusi's ("Ren & Stimpy") company, for over a decade. Gardner is Chairman/CEO of Panacea Entertainment, a talent management and production company he founded 36 years ago, repping such diverse clients as Donny Osmond, Richard Belzer, Paul Shaffer, The Sex Pistols, Elvira, Timothy Leary, and members of the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and The Who. He has produced over 100 hours of televsion and several features.

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Source: Frederator Films

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