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.
 
 

SOURCE Frederator Films