Frederator Films

I don’t want to belabor this backstory any more than I have already. Suffice it to say, Frederator’s moving headlong into commercial feature development, and we’re sure hoping we’ll succeed. It’s a big, new market for us, and I think the talented artists and writers we’ve worked with over the years will have a lot to say in the medium.

Basically, we’ve got three approaches to animated feature films that we think will work for us.

• Low budget. In the feature film world that means under $20 million.  Samurai Jack’s the first (with Paramount Pictures distributing, and Bad Robot and Frederator Films producing). We’ve got another three or four in development, and I’m sure more coming soon. As always, we like making mass appeal, popular entertainment. We think there’s a lot of big box office, reasonable priced pictures to be made.

• Studio films. These are the big, mostly CG pictures, made for a large audience at a higher budget. There have been successes out there with production budgets anywhere from $20-$150 million. Who knows what ours will be, but we love making films for the general audience the embrace.

• Hyper-low budget. We’re convinced there’s an indie market for animated movies (you probably agree; do all the Family Guy and South Park fans go to Julia Roberts’ films?). Probably $3 million and under for production, with smaller distributors, for specialized audience. Most likely comedies, PG-13 and R-rated (mainly). We’ve got a lot of developments in the works here, and now all we have to do is get some movies across the finish line.

That’s it for now, it’s how Frederator Films is trying to make it’s way in the world. Wish us luck, bring us movies, do whatever you want to do. Thanks for listening.

–Fred