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Prana Studios
Prana Studios, Inc. was an American animation and visual effects company, founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, United States, with a wholly owned subsidiary in Mumbai, India. Known for its high quality computer animation and visual effects. Prana Studios' investors include Reliance Industries and Mahindra Group. History Prana Studios was founded in April 2003 by Arish Fyzee, Kristin Dornig and Pankaj Gunsagar. Prana opened a Mumbai subsidiary in 2003. Prana produced highest quality CGI imagery and intellectual property for worldwide markets, and for major U.S. studios also including several animation studios, in long form animation, commercials, digital effects, and themed entertainment. Their computer generated artistry included the digital CG production for multiple animated features for The Walt Disney Company, including the Tinker Bell franchise and Planes for DisneyToon Studios, among others. Prana was hired by Kanbar Entertainment to rescue the digital production on the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flame Ventures
Flame Ventures LLC. is an American production company started by current owner and CEO Tony Krantz based in Beverly Hills, California. The company was a producer and distributor of Major League Gaming's ''Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit'' television program. In 2006, Flame Ventures co-produced the Unstable Fables animated series, Netflix Shorts and animated shorts. The company also worked on the NBC series ''Dracula''. Flame Ventures produced '' Wu Assassins'' for Netflix, a martial arts series starring Iko Uwais Uwais Qorny (), known professionally as Iko Uwais, (born 12 February 1983) is an Indonesian actor, stuntman, fight choreographer, and martial artist. He is best known for acting in the action films '' Merantau'' (2009), '' The Raid'' (2011), '' ... and it premiered on August 8, 2019. Selected filmography References Film production companies of the United States Companies based in Beverly Hills, California {{US-film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splat The Cat
''Splat the Cat'' is a 2008 children's picture book by Rob Scotton. The book was made into an animated 9-minute short in 2010 by Weston Woods Studios, with animation by Soup2Nuts. In 2020, the book was adapted into a French animated series, ''Splat & Seymour'' (''Splat et Harry'' in French). which is co-produced by Prana Studios. Plot Splat is so scared of his first day of Cat School that his tail moves with worry. He needs a friend, so he takes his pet, a mouse named Seymour, with him to school. Mrs. Wimpydimple covers many topics, such as self-esteem and nature. When Seymour gets out of Splat's lunchbox, the cats chase after him. The teacher saves Seymour. By day two, Splat's tail moves with excitement. Reception A ''Kirkus Reviews'' review says, "From the blackboard lessons to the store-window signs advertising white chocolate mice, jelly fish and fish cakes, environmental print creates visual interest. Splat himself is a hoot with his spindly legs, flyaway fur and highly ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaeloo
''Kaeloo'' is a French computer-animated comedy television series created by Rémi Chapotot and Jean-François Henry and produced by Cube Creative. The series aired from June 6, 2010, to April 13, 2023, on Canal+, Canal+ Kids and Télétoon+, and also started airing from September 2017 on C8. Premise The show centers around the adventures of a group of anthropomorphic animal friends, Kaeloo the frog (Kaelou in the pilot), Stumpy the squirrel, (Moignon in the pilot), Quack-Quack the duck, Mr. Cat the cat, and as of Seasons 2 and 5, Pretty the rabbit, Eugly the rabbit, Olaf the penguin, The Rules of the Games and Stumpy's seven sisters, who live on a planet known as Smileyland (Pays Trop Mignon in French, which means "Very Cute Country") and play games to keep themselves from getting bored. Things always go wrong due to Stumpy's ineptitude at almost everything, Quack-Quack's addiction to yogurt, Pretty's unkindness (in the earlier seasons), Eugly's emotional vulnerability, Olaf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xilam
Xilam (also known as Xilam Animation) is a French animation studio which specializes in making animated television series and feature films. Marc du Pontavice and his wife Alix founded it in 1999 as a replacement for the animation division of Gaumont Multimédia, which was itself an offshoot of the company's television division Gaumont Télévision, a company he co-founded in 1990. Gaumont continued to have a deal with Xilam until 2003. Gaumont Multimédia was a video game publisher until closing in 2004. History The origin of Xilam is closely linked to Gaumont's television production activity, launched in the early 1990s. From 1990, Marc du Pontavice joined the Gaumont group to develop a television production activity and co-founded Gaumont Télévision. From 1994 to 1998, certain animations such as ''Space Goofs'' and '' Oggy and the Cockroaches'' met with international success, and it was only in 1999 that the Xilam company bought current productions from Gaumont, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Cat Begins
''Top Cat Begins'' (also known in Spanish as ''Don Gato: El Inicio de la Pandilla'', ''Top Cat: The Start of the Gang'') is a 2015 computer-animated comedy film produced by Ánima Estudios and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in Mexico with portions outsourced to Prana Studios and Discreet Arts Productions in India. Based on the Hanna-Barbera animated television series ''Top Cat'', this film is a prequel to both the series and the previous film, taking place before Top Cat met his gang. The film was first released in Mexico on October 30, 2015, where it was moderately successful, while underperforming its more successful predecessor, and has grossed $54.1 million pesos. Internationally, the film was later released in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2016, distributed by Kaleidoscope Film Distribution and Warner Bros. UK, where it was met with negative reviews and was a major box office bomb. The film was released in limited form on September 29, 2017 in the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Movie
"The Movie" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (and the 54th episode overall). It first aired on NBC in the United States on January 6, 1993. The episode revolves entirely around the characters' struggles to go to see a movie together. Plot Jerry has two stand-up acts scheduled for the same night; due to a delay in one of them, he cannot make both shows. A hopeful comedian, Buckles, hangs around to fill in when somebody drops out. Jerry intended to meet his friends to see a movie, ''CheckMate'', at 10:30. However, given the situation, he agrees to skip the movie and reschedule his act to the 11:00 slot. Jerry first heads to the earlier scheduled comedy act, only to learn that the act was scheduled for 9:15, not 9:50 as Jerry thought, and Buckles ended up filling his spot. Jerry then heads to the movie theater to inform his friends that he won't accompany them. Buckles insists on sharing the taxicab with Jerry, and irrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box-office Disappointment
A box-office bomb is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has technically "bombed", the term is more frequently used for major studio releases that were highly anticipated, extensively marketed, and expensive to produce, but nevertheless failed commercially. Originally, a "bomb" had the opposite meaning, referring instead to a successful film that "exploded" at the box office. The term continued to be used this way in the United Kingdom into the 1970s. Causes Negative word of mouth With the advent of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter in the 2000s, word of mouth regarding new films is easily spread and has had a marked effect on box office performance. A film's ability or failure to attract positive or negative commentary can strongly impact its performance at the box office, espec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why I Did (Not) Eat My Father
''Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape'' (), also titled ''Evolution Man'' and ''Why I Did (Not) Eat My Father'', is a 2015 animated adventure comedy film directed by Jamel Debbouze in collaboration with producer Fred Fougea. The film is a loose adaptation on the 1960 novel '' The Evolution Man'' by Roy Lewis from an original screenplay by Fred Fougea and Jean-Luc Fromental. An English dub of the film was made, but was cut 22 minutes shorter for its dark tones towards children. Synopsis Édouard is the eldest son of the King of the Simiens. But due to his puny appearance, he was rejected by his tribe at birth. He therefore grew up far from his family. With Ian, who becomes his friend, he discovers fire, hunting, modern habitat, love and even hope. Generous, he will go so far as to lead his people with brilliance and humor towards true humanity. Voice cast * Jamel Debbouze and Ben Bishop (English dub) as Édouard. * Mélissa Theuriau and Sohm Kapila (English dub) as Lucie. * Arié El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pathé
Pathé SAS (; styled as PATHÉ!) is a French major film production and distribution company, owning a number of cinema chains through its subsidiary Pathé Cinémas and television networks across Europe. It is the name of a network of French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world's largest film equipment and production company, as well as a major producer of phonograph records. In 1908, Pathé invented the newsreel that was shown in cinemas before a feature film. Pathé is the second-oldest operating film company, behind Gaumont, which was established in 1895. History The company was founded as Société Pathé Frères (; "Pathé Brothers Company") in Paris, France on 28 September 1896, by the four brothers Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques Pathé. During the first part of the 20th century, Pathé became the largest film equipment and production company in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
