Big Fantastic, LLC is a

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and

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located in Santa Monica, California which creates, develops and produces online video entertainment. The company is currently most known for their popular web series ''

Sam Has 7 Friends ''Sam Has 7 Friends'' was a 2006 series drama created, produced, and funded by the production company Big Fantastic and subsequently bought and distributed by the studio Vuguru. The series appeared on YouTube, Revver, iTunes and its own web site. ...

'' and ''

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''. Recent project include the web experiment Control TV, the web sitcom ''Cockpit'', ''

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'', a prequel to the

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novel, and ''

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'' for

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Overview

Big Fantastic started as an ambitious attempt by Douglas Cheney, Chris McCaleb, Ryan Wise, and Chris Hampel to revolutionize the

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phenomenon by serializing dramatic content into a short, daily 90 second format. The company also expands their product into the

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by giving the characters in their shows MySpace pages and

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. Big Fantastic originally was funded completely out of their own pockets, but has now made deals with

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Vuguru Vuguru is an American independent multi-platform studio founded by Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company in March 2006. The company has produced content including the web series ''Prom Queen'', '' The Booth at the End'', ''Little Women Big Cars'', ...

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, 60 Frames and other companies for further productions. The Big Fantastic company was

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nominated twice for the Outstanding Broadband Drama award in 2007. One nomination for

and one for

Shows

2006

2007

* Prom Queen: Summer Heat

2008

* Cockpit *: Cockpit is a comedy web series about the fictional employees of Mile High Airlines. All five episodes were taped one day at Air Hollywood in the same cockpit set that the film ''

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'' was shot in. The cast includes David Storrs as Capt. Kent Gaskins, Tim Halling as Capt. John Pinneke,

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as Trixie Sanders, Tim Coyne as Dan Wishbone, and Kelly Marchand as Jenny Jackson. *

2010

* Control TV * Kill Spin

2012

* Prom Queen: The Homecoming

References

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Vuguru Official Website News

infobolsa news

TimesOnline

External links

Official webpage

weekly web show that covers online pop culture (September 9, 2008)
Cockpit official website
Internet television channels