Pink Panther & Pals Premieres on Cartoon Network

Pink Panther & Pals Premieres on Cartoon Network

LOS ANGELES, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) and Rubicon Group Holding today announced that PINK PANTHER & PALS, the first new Pink Panther series in seventeen years, will premiere Sunday, March 7th at 7:30AM on Cartoon Network.

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PINK PANTHER & PALS continues the hilarious adventures of one of the most-beloved animated characters of all time, the one-and-only Pink Panther. Each show contains two episodes of a teenage Panther and his buddies, and one episode featuring the Ant & the Aardvark characters.

"Pink Panther is one of the best-known characters in animation history," observed Rubicon's Executive Producer David J. Corbett who continued, "Cartoon Network getting behind this new series by featuring new episodes every Sunday this spring is giving Panther fans across America something new to laugh about."

Executive Producer and Oscar©-winner (Best Picture, In the Heat of the Night) Walter Mirisch agrees with Corbett adding, "The Pink Panther is one of those rare characters that parents trust yet he is also versatile enough to entertain generation after generation."

PINK PANTHER & PALS is based upon the animated Pink Panther character created by David DePatie and Friz Freleng and the Pink Panther films of Blake Edwards. David J. Corbett, Isam S. Ayoubi and Walter Mirisch are serving as Executive Producers with Joe Patrick, Executive Vice President of Domestic Television, overseeing the series for MGM, and Randa Ayoubi, CEO, in that role for the Rubicon Group Holding.

For more information including PINK PANTHER & PALS stills, episode synopsis and the latest news head to MGM.com & http://pinkpanther.mgm.com/

About Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., through its operating subsidiaries, is actively engaged in the worldwide production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home video, interactive media, music and licensed merchandise. The company owns the world's largest library of modern films, comprising around 4,100 titles. Operating units include Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc., United Artists Films Inc., MGM Television Entertainment Inc., MGM Networks Inc., MGM Domestic Networks LLC, MGM Distribution Co, MGM International Television Distribution Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC, MGM ON STAGE, MGM Music, MGM Worldwide Digital Media, MGM Consumer Products and MGM Interactive. In addition, MGM has ownership interests in international TV channels reaching nearly 120 countries. MGM ownership is as follows: Providence Equity Partners (29%), TPG (21%), Sony Corporation of America (20%), Comcast (20%), DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (7%) and Quadrangle Group (3%). For more information, visit http://www.mgm.com/

About Rubicon Studios, Inc.

Established in 2007, Los Angeles-based Rubicon Studios is the wholly owned development-production division of Rubicon Group Holding, a leading emerging markets production company specializing in animation and edutainment, and dedicated to creating a new genre of feature films, television series, short theatricals and webisodes.

Headed by Executive Producer David J. Corbett, the division specializes in providing the entire spectrum of concept development and pre-production services. Rubicon Studios is a complete one stop production facility, comprising everything from scripts and story boarding, to voice over recording, character design and background design, animatics, and 5.1 surround sound editing and mixing capability; for all of Rubicon Group Holding's productions. Specializing in 2D-digital as well as CGI television series, theatricals and internet downloadable content, the studio is a state of the art globally linked digital production facility.

Rubicon Studio's flagship series, Pink Panther & Pals, co-produced and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, premieres spring 2010 on Cartoon Network in the U.S. and around the world. The company is seeking to apply its co-production strategy to a number of exciting new projects.

MGM CONTACT:

Grey Munford
Director Corporate Publicity
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.
Email: gmunford@mgm.com
Office: 310-586-8227

RUBICON STUDIOS CONTACT:

John Russel
Russel Public Relations
Email: jrussel@russelprla.com
Office: 661-259-2601

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CONTACT: Grey Munford, Director Corporate Publicity of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, +1-310-586-8227, gmunford@mgm.com; or John
Russel of Russel Public Relations, +1-661-259-2601, jrussel@russelprla.com,
for Rubicon Studios

Web Site: http://www.mgm.com/

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