{"id":6561,"date":"2003-10-20T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/20\/corsham-teams-up-with-wild-brain\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T14:30:00","slug":"corsham-teams-up-with-wild-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/corsham-teams-up-with-wild-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Corsham Teams Up With Wild Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning US animation producers Wild Brain have agreed to co-produce the latest Corsham Entertainment show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalbornkittens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Born Kittens<\/a>&#8221; a 26 half hour teenage comedy anime series about four ancient Egyptian Cat Goddesses posing as teenage schoolgirls. Thrown into a modern world whose inhabitants are even weirder than they are, the kittens react with a combination of bad language and globe-threatening violence. Stylistically, Natural Born Kittens allows the epic, futuristic feel of traditional anime to explode the conventions of the classic sitcom. Sailor Moon meets The Young Ones, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>WILD BRAIN INC. is an award-winning American animation studio whose client list includes Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Oxygen. The company&#8217;s original series include Poochini, a European co-production that is airing globally and debuted in U.S. syndication in fall 2002, and the upcoming Vanilla Pudding, developed initially with Fox and Egmont Imagination. Television Business International&#8217;s independent poll [July 2002] of children&#8217;s programming executives placed Wild Brain among the world&#8217;s top 10 creative studios producing TV animation today.<\/p>\n<p>Corsham Entertainment was recently set up by Oscar-winning Gary Kurtz, whose long list of producer credits includes Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, British animator Richard Bazley (Hercules, Pocahontas) and writer\/producer Alastair Swinnerton, who co-created Lego&#8217;s multi-platform hit, Bionicle. Corsham is also shopping the Xmas special Jack Frost, being exec produced by Snowman veteran John Coates, and Terranoids, a boys action toon being co-produced with French studio TEVA and Spin Entertainment of Canada. Other projects on Corsham&#8217;s slate include Atomic Monsters, with Canada&#8217;s Context Pictures, and Bollywood Road, with Indian studio UTV Toons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning US animation producers Wild Brain have agreed to co-produce the latest Corsham Entertainment show &#8220;Natural Born Kittens&#8221; a 26 half hour teenage comedy anime series about four ancient Egyptian Cat Goddesses posing as teenage schoolgirls. Thrown into a modern world whose inhabitants are even weirder than they are, the kittens react with a combination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}