Corsham Teams Up With Wild Brain

Award-winning US animation producers Wild Brain have agreed to co-produce the latest Corsham Entertainment show “Natural Born Kittens” 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?

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’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’s independent poll [July 2002] of children’s programming executives placed Wild Brain among the world’s top 10 creative studios producing TV animation today.

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’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’s slate include Atomic Monsters, with Canada’s Context Pictures, and Bollywood Road, with Indian studio UTV Toons.