Exclusive: The Gotham Group has launched an Nft-focused Emerging Technologies department, with the Hollywood management and production company tapping longtime manager Matt Shichtman to run it, while elevating him to partner.
The division already has a first project, with production underway on the adult animated series Alien to Me. It will be fully Web3 with only those that purchase NFTs getting access to the series, which hails from Shichtman-repped comedian and digital artist Connor Kerrigan and Melbourne-based animation studio Pixel’s Andrew Goldsmith and Monique Mulcahy.
“While studios have had considerable success over the past decade consolidating market power, Web3 has moved swiftly in the opposite direction, decentralizing networks, building grassroots communities, increasing transaction speeds, decreasing fees, and pushing towards carbon neutrality, a goal many blockchains have now achieved,” Shichtman said. “With over $25 billion in Nft sales in 2021, we couldn’t be more excited to leverage the power this new...
The division already has a first project, with production underway on the adult animated series Alien to Me. It will be fully Web3 with only those that purchase NFTs getting access to the series, which hails from Shichtman-repped comedian and digital artist Connor Kerrigan and Melbourne-based animation studio Pixel’s Andrew Goldsmith and Monique Mulcahy.
“While studios have had considerable success over the past decade consolidating market power, Web3 has moved swiftly in the opposite direction, decentralizing networks, building grassroots communities, increasing transaction speeds, decreasing fees, and pushing towards carbon neutrality, a goal many blockchains have now achieved,” Shichtman said. “With over $25 billion in Nft sales in 2021, we couldn’t be more excited to leverage the power this new...
- 2/18/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In this week’s International Newswire “Cupcake & Dino” head down under, “Aruanas” gets a second season at Globo, South Africa’s Via commissions local “Date in Reverse,” Channel 4 announced 20th anniversary special season for “Location, Location, Location” and Magnify announces a Swedish version of “Fittest Family.”
“Cupcake & Dino” Land in Australia, New Zealand
Entertainment One (eOne) announced that WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks has acquired pay-tv broadcast rights to Season 1 of animated kids’ series “Cupcake & Dino: General Services” in Australia and New Zealand. A co-production between Brazil’s Birdo Studios and eOne, the series was created by Brazilian cartoonist Pedro Eboli, and follows ambitious Cupcake and his big brother Dino as they work to build their own general services company. While the series is aimed primarily at kids 6-11, it has been a hit with adult audiences as well thanks to its off-the-wall humor and heartfelt relationships. Episodes will begin...
“Cupcake & Dino” Land in Australia, New Zealand
Entertainment One (eOne) announced that WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks has acquired pay-tv broadcast rights to Season 1 of animated kids’ series “Cupcake & Dino: General Services” in Australia and New Zealand. A co-production between Brazil’s Birdo Studios and eOne, the series was created by Brazilian cartoonist Pedro Eboli, and follows ambitious Cupcake and his big brother Dino as they work to build their own general services company. While the series is aimed primarily at kids 6-11, it has been a hit with adult audiences as well thanks to its off-the-wall humor and heartfelt relationships. Episodes will begin...
- 5/15/2020
- by Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Toronto-based Entertainment One (eOne) has announced that the animated series “Cupcake & Dino: General Services” will debut on Brazilian Netflix on Nov. 13 and Disney Xd Brazil on Nov. 15.
Created by Brazilian director Pedro Eboli, the series is an eOne co-production with Brazil’s Birdo studios, the company behind another Eboli series, the Brazilian Cartoon Network smash hit “Oswaldo.”
Birdo was founded in 2005 by Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet. After designing the mascots for the 2016 Paralympics, the company created its first TV project “Vinicius & Tom: Funny by Nature,” commissioned by Cartoon Network. The series was Cartoon Network’s highest-rated show in 2016 and helped the 2016 Rio games surpass all Olympic licensing records.
After selling “Oswaldo” to Cartoon Network Latin America, Eboli co-directed and co-wrote the series’ first season. Recently, he and Canadian Graham Peterson pitched “Monster Pack” as part of the Nick Shorts program, where they were finalists. That project is currently in development.
Created by Brazilian director Pedro Eboli, the series is an eOne co-production with Brazil’s Birdo studios, the company behind another Eboli series, the Brazilian Cartoon Network smash hit “Oswaldo.”
Birdo was founded in 2005 by Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet. After designing the mascots for the 2016 Paralympics, the company created its first TV project “Vinicius & Tom: Funny by Nature,” commissioned by Cartoon Network. The series was Cartoon Network’s highest-rated show in 2016 and helped the 2016 Rio games surpass all Olympic licensing records.
After selling “Oswaldo” to Cartoon Network Latin America, Eboli co-directed and co-wrote the series’ first season. Recently, he and Canadian Graham Peterson pitched “Monster Pack” as part of the Nick Shorts program, where they were finalists. That project is currently in development.
- 11/8/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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