Exclusive: Hot Wheels producer Kickstart Entertainment has snapped up a Cartoon Network Studios exec to run its kids and family development slate in LA.
Nicole Rivera will build and manage a slate featuring the likes of Hot Wheels Monster Trucks, American Girl and Angry Birds: Summer Madness. She is tasked with developing animated and live-action projects while identifying international co-pro partnerships.
Based out of LA, Rivera joins as Kickstart turns 25, and she is one of a spate of recent hires including Global Head of Production Susan Corbin.
Rivera previously spent several years at Cartoon Network Studios, where she was most recently Vice President of Development, working to identify and shepherd new animated series including The Invincible Fight Girl and Jessica’s Big Little World. Her previous roles at Cartoon Network included time on the Content Acquisitions team and as Manager of Current Series, overseeing the likes of Steven Universe, Clarence and the reimagined The Powerpuff Girls.
Nicole Rivera will build and manage a slate featuring the likes of Hot Wheels Monster Trucks, American Girl and Angry Birds: Summer Madness. She is tasked with developing animated and live-action projects while identifying international co-pro partnerships.
Based out of LA, Rivera joins as Kickstart turns 25, and she is one of a spate of recent hires including Global Head of Production Susan Corbin.
Rivera previously spent several years at Cartoon Network Studios, where she was most recently Vice President of Development, working to identify and shepherd new animated series including The Invincible Fight Girl and Jessica’s Big Little World. Her previous roles at Cartoon Network included time on the Content Acquisitions team and as Manager of Current Series, overseeing the likes of Steven Universe, Clarence and the reimagined The Powerpuff Girls.
- 10/3/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Warner Discovery came out at Annecy all three animation cylinders firing, Cartoon Network Studios, Warner Bros. Animation and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe coming together to host a joint sneak peek presentation of their upcoming slates. They make a formidable combination.
The biggest news was an exclusive, multiyear cross-studio overall deal inked between Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation and “Primal” creator Genndy Tartakovsky.
Warner Bros. Animation also unveiled “Bye Bye Bunny: A Looney Tunes Musical,” the first-ever Looney Tunes Original animated movie musical.
In further news, Brian Cox, Miranda Otto, Gaia Wise and Luke Pasqualino feature among key voice cast in New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming anime movie “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.”
A 75-minute three studio focus had plenty more highlights, however, including the unexpected announcement of a new stop-motion “Wacky Races” reboot in development at Hanna-Barbera.
Cartoon Network Studios...
The biggest news was an exclusive, multiyear cross-studio overall deal inked between Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation and “Primal” creator Genndy Tartakovsky.
Warner Bros. Animation also unveiled “Bye Bye Bunny: A Looney Tunes Musical,” the first-ever Looney Tunes Original animated movie musical.
In further news, Brian Cox, Miranda Otto, Gaia Wise and Luke Pasqualino feature among key voice cast in New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming anime movie “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.”
A 75-minute three studio focus had plenty more highlights, however, including the unexpected announcement of a new stop-motion “Wacky Races” reboot in development at Hanna-Barbera.
Cartoon Network Studios...
- 6/15/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Cartoon Network Studios is teaming with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry (Hair Love) and director/animator/writer Chaz Bottoms on Battu, a musical comedy series about “a young group of misfit dreamers who move to their own beat.”
Battu — which I am told is a French ballet term meaning “beat” — follows Otis and Jada, gifted teenage dancers in Chicago whose free-spirit and individuality often leave them as outsiders in the rigid world of mainstream dance. Together they find a home at a struggling hiplet (a style of dance combining hip-hop and ballet) studio and a family among the studio...
Battu — which I am told is a French ballet term meaning “beat” — follows Otis and Jada, gifted teenage dancers in Chicago whose free-spirit and individuality often leave them as outsiders in the rigid world of mainstream dance. Together they find a home at a struggling hiplet (a style of dance combining hip-hop and ballet) studio and a family among the studio...
- 7/14/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Hair Love filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry and Chaz Bottoms, who worked on John Legend’s animated Facebook series Dear John: Legendary Love Letters, have teamed up to develop an animated musical comedy series.
Battu, which follows a young group of misfit dreamers who move to their own beat, has been set up at Cartoon Network Studios.
It is based on Bottoms’ animated short film Battu: An Animated Musical that is currently in production. Cherry has a first-look deal with Cns sister studio Warner Bros. Television.
From the French ballet term meaning beat, Battu follows teenagers Otis and Jada – two gifted dancers in Chicago whose free-spirit and individuality often leave them as outsiders in the rigid world of mainstream dance. Together they find a home at a struggling hiplet, a style of dance combining hip-hop and ballet, studio and a family among the studio’s troupe of dancers and instructors.
Battu...
Battu, which follows a young group of misfit dreamers who move to their own beat, has been set up at Cartoon Network Studios.
It is based on Bottoms’ animated short film Battu: An Animated Musical that is currently in production. Cherry has a first-look deal with Cns sister studio Warner Bros. Television.
From the French ballet term meaning beat, Battu follows teenagers Otis and Jada – two gifted dancers in Chicago whose free-spirit and individuality often leave them as outsiders in the rigid world of mainstream dance. Together they find a home at a struggling hiplet, a style of dance combining hip-hop and ballet, studio and a family among the studio’s troupe of dancers and instructors.
Battu...
- 7/14/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar winner Matthew A. Cherry (“Hair Love”) is partnering with director/writer Chaz Bottoms to adapt Bottoms’ animated short “Battu: An Animated Musical” into a series. Cartoon Network Studios is on board to develop “Battu” with Cherry and Bottoms.
Described as a “coming-of-age musical comedy series about a young group of misfit dreamers who move to their own beat,” “Battu” will follow Chicago teens Otis and Jada who are gifted dancers but free spirits who find themselves outcasts in the world of mainstream dance. They join a troupe of “hiplet” (a mix of hip-hop and ballet dance) dancers, where they find acceptance among their peers and instructors.
The show’s soundtrack will explore Chicago’s music scene, and “Battu” will tackle themes such as courage, self-empowerment, inclusiveness, perseverance, and the power of friendship.
“’Battu’ is unlike anything we have ever tried at the studio,” said Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation...
Described as a “coming-of-age musical comedy series about a young group of misfit dreamers who move to their own beat,” “Battu” will follow Chicago teens Otis and Jada who are gifted dancers but free spirits who find themselves outcasts in the world of mainstream dance. They join a troupe of “hiplet” (a mix of hip-hop and ballet dance) dancers, where they find acceptance among their peers and instructors.
The show’s soundtrack will explore Chicago’s music scene, and “Battu” will tackle themes such as courage, self-empowerment, inclusiveness, perseverance, and the power of friendship.
“’Battu’ is unlike anything we have ever tried at the studio,” said Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation...
- 7/14/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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