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Princess Bento Studio
Princess Pictures Pty. Ltd. is an Australian film and television production company, located in South Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 2003 by Laura Waters, the studio produces television series and feature films ranging from live-action to animation. The studio is best known for producing all six shows created by Chris Lilley for ABC, HBO, and Netflix. The studio's first feature film '' I Love You Too'' released on 6 May 2010. Their live-action television credits include '' Summer Heights High'', ''Lunatics'', '' Superwog'', ''How to Stay Married'', '' Ja'mie: Private School Girl'', ''Jonah from Tonga'', ''Wrong Kind of Black'', and '' Last Days of the Space Age''. The studio also produced the animated series '' YOLO'', ''Smiling Friends'' and '' Koala Man'', both created by animator and voice actor Michael Cusack. In 2022, Princess Pictures acquired the Irish animation studio Boulder Media from Hasbro. Princess Bento Studio Princess Bento Studio is an Australian animat ... [...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] |
Jonah From Tonga
''Jonah from Tonga'' () is an Australian television mockumentary sitcom miniseries written by and starring comedian Chris Lilley (comedian), Chris Lilley. The mockumentary series follows Jonah Takalua, a rebellious 14-year-old Australian boy of Tongan descent portrayed by Lilley. The character had been introduced in Lilley's 2007 series ''Summer Heights High''. At the conclusion of that series, Jonah was expulsion (education), expelled from Summer Heights High School. In this series, his father, Rocky Takalua, has sent him back to his homeland of Tonga to live with his uncle and their family in order to get Jonah's life back on track. The series was highly controversial for its use of brownface and ethnic stereotypes. The six-part series was produced by Princess Pictures and Chris Lilley in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and screened on ABC1 in Australia, HBO in America, and BBC Three in the UK. In New Zealand Māori Television screened the first episod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krapopolis
''Krapopolis'' is an American adult animated sitcom created by Dan Harmon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Before its series premiere, the series was renewed for a second season in October 2022 and for a third season in March 2023. The series premiered on September 24, 2023, on the Animation Domination programming block. The first season concluded on May 19, 2024. In July 2024, Fox renewed the series for a fourth season ahead of the season 2 premiere. In May 2025, the series was renewed for a fifth season, ahead of the season 2 finale and the season 3 premiere. Premise Set in an alternate take of mythical Ancient Greece, the series centers on a dysfunctional family of humans, gods, and monsters that tries to run one of the world's first cities without killing each other. Voice cast Main * Richard Ayoade as Tyrannis, son of Shlub and Deliria, paternal half-brother to Hippocampus, maternal half-brother to Stupendous and the main protagonist who is the demigod king of Krapopolis. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulligan (TV Series)
''Mulligan'' is an American animated apocalyptic sitcom created by Sam Means and Robert Carlock for Netflix. It premiered on May 12, 2023. Part 2 was released on May 24, 2024. Premise After an alien attack destroys Earth, what's left of humanity has the chance to start all over again. Survivors will need to work together to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Cast Main * Nat Faxon as Matty Mulligan, a working-class man who saved Earth from the aliens, and has become President of the human race. * Chrissy Teigen as Lucy Suwan, Earth's de facto First Lady and in a romantic relationship with Matty. * Tina Fey as Dr. Farrah Braun, a single mom and super scientist. * Sam Richardson as Simon Prioleau, a historian and Matty's right-hand man. * Dana Carvey as Senator Cartwright LaMarr, a person who appointed himself as Vice-President of Earth and wants to return everything to the way it was in the past. * Phil LaMarr as Axatrax, a well-regarded alien general who is prisoner of the hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazbin Hotel
''Hazbin Hotel'' is an American Adult animation, adult animated Musical theatre, musical comedy television series created by Vivienne Medrano, Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano. The series revolves around Charlie Morningstar, crown princess, princess of Hell, on her quest to find a way for sinners to be "Redemption (theology), rehabilitated" and allowed into Heaven, via her "Hazbin Hotel", as an alternative to Heaven's annual "Extermination" of souls due to Hell's overpopulation. The series is produced by SpindleHorse Toons, SpindleHorse in collaboration with A24, Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Studios, and the animation studio Bento Box Entertainment. The #Pilot (2019), pilot episode, released on YouTube on October 28, 2019, was made entirely by freelance animators and was mainly financed by Medrano's Patreon followers. The first season premiered on Amazon Prime Video on January 19, 2024, with Overture (Hazbin Hotel episode), its first episode also released on YouTube a day earlier for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (stylized as [adult swim] and [as]) is an American adult-oriented television programming block that airs on Cartoon Network which broadcasts during the evening, prime time, and Late-night television, late-night Dayparting, dayparts. The channel features stylistically varied Adult animation, animated and live-action series targeting an adult audience. The block's content includes List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim, original programming, which are particularly comedies and action series, broadcast syndication, syndicated series, and short films with generally minimal or no editing for content. Adult Swim is programmed by Williams Street, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios that also produces much of the block's original programming. Launched on September 2, 2001, Adult Swim has frequently aired animated sitcoms, adult animation features, parody, satire, Mockumentary, mockumentaries, sketch comedy, and Television pilot, pilots, with many of its programs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation Studio
An animation studio is a company producing animation, animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals of the media produced. They also own rights over merchandising and creative rights for characters created/held by the company, much like authors holding copyrights. In some early cases, they also held patent, patent rights over methods of animation used in certain studios that were used for boosting productivity. Overall, they are business concerns and can function as such in legal terms. American studios The idea of a studio dedicated to animating cartoons was spearheaded by Raoul Barré and his studio, Barré Studio, co-founded with Bill Nolan (animator), Bill Nolan, beating out the studio created by J.R. Bray, Bray Productions, to the honor of the first studio dedicated to animation. Though beaten to the post of being the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Venture
A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to access a new market, particularly emerging market; to gain scale efficiencies by combining assets and operations; to share risk for major investments or projects; or to access skills and capabilities.' Most joint ventures are incorporated, although some, as in the oil and gas industry, are "unincorporated" joint ventures that mimic a corporate entity. With individuals, when two or more persons come together to form a temporary partnership for the purpose of carrying out a particular project, such partnership can also be called a joint venture where the parties are "''co-venturers''". A joint venture can take the form of a business. It can also take the form of a project or asset JV, created for the purpose of pursuing one specific project, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasbro
Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational corporation, multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of Kenner Products, Kenner, Milton Bradley Company, Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, and Wizards of the Coast, among others. As of August 2020, over 81.5% of its shares were held by large financial institutions. Among Hasbro's products are ''Transformers'', ''G.I. Joe'', ''Power Rangers'', Rom the Space Knight, Micronauts, ''M.A.S.K. (franchise), M.A.S.K.'', ''Monopoly (game), Monopoly'', Furby, Nerf, Mr. Potato Head, Potato Head, ''Bop It!'', Play-Doh, ''Twister (game), Twister'', and ''My Little Pony'', and with the Entertainment One (now Lionsgate Canada) acquisition on December 30, 2019, franchises like ''Peppa Pig'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cusack (animator)
Michael R. Cusack is an Australian animator, writer, producer, director, musician, and voice actor. He is known as the co-creator of the Adult Swim animated series ''Smiling Friends'' (2022–present), in which he voiced the characters Pim, Allan, and various others. He is also the creator of the Adult Swim animated series '' YOLO'' (2020–present) and the Hulu animated sitcom '' Koala Man'' (2023). Early life Cusack was born and raised in Dapto, New South Wales, and later moved to Melbourne. Career Cusack became interested in animation in his 20s and taught himself Adobe Flash using online tutorials. He uploaded his content to his YouTube channel and Newgrounds account. He created and portrayed Lucas the Magnificent, a parody of New Atheist " neckbeards", in live-action YouTube videos and on Twitter, beginning in 2014; he later stated that the character led to him meeting and befriending American animator Zach Hadel, as Lucas the Magnificent stated that he wanted Hadel to ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koala Man
''Koala Man'' is a superhero animated sitcom created by Michael Cusack for Hulu. Developed by Cusack, Dan Hernandez, and Benji Samit, the series premiered on January 9, 2023 on Hulu in the United States and on Disney+ in Australia. the series pilot aired on ABC in 2018. The series is set in an alternate universe where the United States have been destroyed and Australia is the world's last surviving superpower. A middle-aged family man serves as the resident superhero of Dapto, while having no superhuman abilities and devoting minimal effort to hide his secret identity. Plot The series takes place in an alternate universe called "Bushworld", where the sinking of the ''Titanic'' never happened, indirectly resulting in the United States being destroyed (except Hollywood, which became an island), Australia becoming the world's superpower, and Nicole Kidman becoming its Queen. The story follows Kevin Williams, an average middle-aged family man who decides to issue justice to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiling Friends
''Smiling Friends'' is an adult animation, adult animated television series created by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack (animator), Michael Cusack for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim, which revolves around the surreal misadventures of a small charity and its four employees dedicated to spreading happiness. The show utilizes a wide variety of different art styles and animation techniques, which include but are not limited to stylized traditional animation, computer animation, rotoscoping, stop motion, flash animation, and live-action. The pilot episode aired April 1, 2020, unannounced as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools' Day event alongside the premiere of Cusack's other series, ''YOLO (2020 TV series), YOLO''. On May 19, 2021, Adult Swim ordered a full season that was initially set to premiere in late 2021. A panel dedicated to the series was held during the Adult Swim Festival on November 12, 2021, where co-creator Zach Hadel mentioned the show would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
