Finland-based animation studio Gigglebug Entertainment is launching a new adult-focused label and has already begun developing its first project, Variety can confirm.
Branded In Stitches and led by Gigglebug’s management team, the banner will focus on bold, experimental and offbeat comedy aimed at grown-ups. Contemporary voices as well as artists and designers from Gigglebug’s in-house team will be brought in to pitch adult-oriented concepts and work on projects from the new banner.
The first project from In Stitches, which the company are set to present at Mipcom next month, is titled “Soap.” The 20-episode series is based on an original concept by Gigglebug animator Sasil Leirana and is told from the perspective of a bar of hotel soap called Suds.
“When affairs unravel marriages, a drug deal blows up (literally) or a serial killer repaints the walls red, who is there to clean up the mess? Soap,” reads the synopsis.
Branded In Stitches and led by Gigglebug’s management team, the banner will focus on bold, experimental and offbeat comedy aimed at grown-ups. Contemporary voices as well as artists and designers from Gigglebug’s in-house team will be brought in to pitch adult-oriented concepts and work on projects from the new banner.
The first project from In Stitches, which the company are set to present at Mipcom next month, is titled “Soap.” The 20-episode series is based on an original concept by Gigglebug animator Sasil Leirana and is told from the perspective of a bar of hotel soap called Suds.
“When affairs unravel marriages, a drug deal blows up (literally) or a serial killer repaints the walls red, who is there to clean up the mess? Soap,” reads the synopsis.
- 9/13/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Returning to an on-site edition, Cartoon Springboard, an animation pitching get-together for on-the-rise European animators, ran Oct. 26-28 in Valencia, with 174 participants taking part.
Buzz projects included an LGBT roller derby story, “Riot5,” as well as a film, “The Mission,” imagining all of the world’s money being destroyed, and “Exit Tales,” an animated short about children fleeing their home countries.
Altogether, 24 projects were pitched from 39 animation schools, including 17 TV shows, and five features.
The animated TV series “Riot5,” from Denmark’s Violeta Fellay, an alum of The Animation Workshop/Via University College, draws upon her experience as a queer woman. Seeking to depict a wider range of female characters than the norm, the story for the young adult TV series follows an all-female roller derby team caught up with different issues in their lives, between practicing sport.
“The Mission” also caught attention. Set in 2023, this Belgian project from the...
Buzz projects included an LGBT roller derby story, “Riot5,” as well as a film, “The Mission,” imagining all of the world’s money being destroyed, and “Exit Tales,” an animated short about children fleeing their home countries.
Altogether, 24 projects were pitched from 39 animation schools, including 17 TV shows, and five features.
The animated TV series “Riot5,” from Denmark’s Violeta Fellay, an alum of The Animation Workshop/Via University College, draws upon her experience as a queer woman. Seeking to depict a wider range of female characters than the norm, the story for the young adult TV series follows an all-female roller derby team caught up with different issues in their lives, between practicing sport.
“The Mission” also caught attention. Set in 2023, this Belgian project from the...
- 11/1/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Zodiak Kids, a Banijay company based in London and Paris, is teaming with Finnish animation studio Gigglebug Entertainment on an all new series “The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti,” commissioned by Disney Channel Europe, Middle East and Africa and Nordic broadcasters Yle in Finland, Dr in Denmark, Nrk in Norway, and Svt in Sweden.
The show was originally created by Gigglebug Entertainment creative director Joonas Utti and CEO Anttu Harlin. Zodiak Kids boarded early on, co-developing the new IP with Gigglebug Entertainment and Disney Emea. Production kicked off this summer, headed by Utti and Harlin who co-direct and produce. Zodiak Kids Studios head of content development Gary Milne is on board as a creative producer, while Zodiak CEO Benoit di Sabatino from Zodiak Kids and Anttu Harlin from Gigglebug Entertainment will executive produce. Zodiak Kids holds international distribution rights.
Described as an “offbeat comedy series set in a quirky little town above the Arctic Circle,...
The show was originally created by Gigglebug Entertainment creative director Joonas Utti and CEO Anttu Harlin. Zodiak Kids boarded early on, co-developing the new IP with Gigglebug Entertainment and Disney Emea. Production kicked off this summer, headed by Utti and Harlin who co-direct and produce. Zodiak Kids Studios head of content development Gary Milne is on board as a creative producer, while Zodiak CEO Benoit di Sabatino from Zodiak Kids and Anttu Harlin from Gigglebug Entertainment will executive produce. Zodiak Kids holds international distribution rights.
Described as an “offbeat comedy series set in a quirky little town above the Arctic Circle,...
- 10/5/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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