Exclusive: Trioscope, the company behind Netflix animated drama The Liberator, has brought in two new hires.
Animation veteran and former Mondo Media CEO John Evershed joins as Chief Strategy Officer and Taylor Church joins as Vice President of Production.
Evershed will oversee Trioscope’s corporate strategy, including financing, international co-productions and business development. He previously served as the CEO of Mondo Media, where he oversaw the channel’s formation on Vrv – WarnerMedia’s SVOD aggregation platform, generated 5B views on YouTube and raising more than $100 million in company and project financing. He also produced originals for Adult Swim, MTV, Syfy and IFC.
Church will supervise all facets of production from pre-production to post. She previously worked with the company on The Liberator and spent several years at School of Humans, an Atlanta-based multi-platform production house.
The hires come after the company raised over $5M investments from companies including venture capital firm Bitkraft Ventures and Sony.
Animation veteran and former Mondo Media CEO John Evershed joins as Chief Strategy Officer and Taylor Church joins as Vice President of Production.
Evershed will oversee Trioscope’s corporate strategy, including financing, international co-productions and business development. He previously served as the CEO of Mondo Media, where he oversaw the channel’s formation on Vrv – WarnerMedia’s SVOD aggregation platform, generated 5B views on YouTube and raising more than $100 million in company and project financing. He also produced originals for Adult Swim, MTV, Syfy and IFC.
Church will supervise all facets of production from pre-production to post. She previously worked with the company on The Liberator and spent several years at School of Humans, an Atlanta-based multi-platform production house.
The hires come after the company raised over $5M investments from companies including venture capital firm Bitkraft Ventures and Sony.
- 11/10/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Trioscope, the company behind Netflix’s animated drama The Liberator, has raised over $5M in investments from companies including venture capital firm Bitkraft Ventures and Sony.
Sony, via its Innovation Fund, and Bitkraft Ventures, a fund focused on gaming, esports, and interactive media, have been joined in the $5.25M round by Transcend Fund, Cordillera Investment Partners and Thomas Vu/Axis Mundi Capital.
The money will allow the company, which was formed last year by producers L.C. Crowley and Brandon Barr and former LucasFilm and Industrial Light & Magic VFX creative Greg Jonkajtys, to expand its U.S. and global business and focus on boosting its original IP and content drive.
It will also bolster its animation technology toolset for global third-party creators and studios to produce content through licensing agreements. The company expects to launch a new platform licensing offering in 2022 with an initial network of international studio partners.
Trioscope...
Sony, via its Innovation Fund, and Bitkraft Ventures, a fund focused on gaming, esports, and interactive media, have been joined in the $5.25M round by Transcend Fund, Cordillera Investment Partners and Thomas Vu/Axis Mundi Capital.
The money will allow the company, which was formed last year by producers L.C. Crowley and Brandon Barr and former LucasFilm and Industrial Light & Magic VFX creative Greg Jonkajtys, to expand its U.S. and global business and focus on boosting its original IP and content drive.
It will also bolster its animation technology toolset for global third-party creators and studios to produce content through licensing agreements. The company expects to launch a new platform licensing offering in 2022 with an initial network of international studio partners.
Trioscope...
- 10/7/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s the evolution of animation. It can be argued that “The Simpsons” opened the door for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, which in turn kicked down the door to let in shows including “Bojack Horseman,” “Archer” and “Rick & Morty.” U.S animators are serving up not only raunchy comedy but also sophisticated storytelling. Outside the U.S., animated features have a long history of telling difficult stories — most recently “The Swallows of Kabul” and “Funan” are two films that tackled horrific events. Animation aimed at adults is on the rise worldwide.
In his recently released white paper, “Adult Animation Finally Breaking Free of Its Comedy Shackles,” John Evershed, head of High Concentrate, which specializes in the packaging, development and sales of animated TV series and movies for adult audiences, notes that adult animated series have been driving ratings on both linear TV and SVODs for the past few years.
In his recently released white paper, “Adult Animation Finally Breaking Free of Its Comedy Shackles,” John Evershed, head of High Concentrate, which specializes in the packaging, development and sales of animated TV series and movies for adult audiences, notes that adult animated series have been driving ratings on both linear TV and SVODs for the past few years.
- 6/12/2020
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Stream Market: The president of Awesomeness TV identified a section of the Millennial demographic as woefully underserved during a panel at the two-day digital conference on Thursday.
Speaking during a session dedicated to the making of his company’s 2014 social smash Expelled, Brett Bouttier explained how the film’s success was not entirely unexpected.
“There are very few films being made for teens,” said Bouttier, adding: “Digital has created a new TV for them.
“We knew there was that opening in the marketplace and we knew the stars had the ability to be the marketers and not just the stars.”
Expelled opened at number one on iTunes in December and stayed there for four weeks to keep the likes of rival new releases such as Guardians Of The Galaxy and The Equalizer at bay. The film drew approximately 15bn social impressions during active release.
Writer-director Alex Goyette commenced production on the high school comedy starring Vine celebrity...
Speaking during a session dedicated to the making of his company’s 2014 social smash Expelled, Brett Bouttier explained how the film’s success was not entirely unexpected.
“There are very few films being made for teens,” said Bouttier, adding: “Digital has created a new TV for them.
“We knew there was that opening in the marketplace and we knew the stars had the ability to be the marketers and not just the stars.”
Expelled opened at number one on iTunes in December and stayed there for four weeks to keep the likes of rival new releases such as Guardians Of The Galaxy and The Equalizer at bay. The film drew approximately 15bn social impressions during active release.
Writer-director Alex Goyette commenced production on the high school comedy starring Vine celebrity...
- 6/4/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The "About" section of Mondo Media's main YouTube channel claims the animation network is "not for children," but as Mondo's latest deal shows, that statement isn't entirely true. Mondo has partnered with toy company Spin Master for SpindoTV, an upcoming YouTube channel that will be aimed at children ages 6-11. The content on SpindoTV will combine the properties of its two founding companies. Spin Master's toys (which include Bakugan and Tech Deck) will appear on the channel, as will content from Mondo's multi-channel network of more than 50 animation channels. Together, Mondo and Spin Master hope to create videos that target an audience they feel is underserved. A press release announcing the partnership notes that "content for younger children is rare and hard to find." “Spin Master has a full 360 degree view of the 6-11 consumer," said Mondo Media CEO John Evershed, “YouTube’s massive kid’s audience, super-fun shows and toys.
- 9/30/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Today popular animated series form Mondo Media Happy Tree Friends returns with original Christmas episode "Clause For Concern." "Clause For Concern" marks Happy Tree Friends' 5th official Christmas-themed episode. The episode features the adorable father-son duo Pop and Cub, who set out to get into the holiday spirit with the best of intentions, until something goes horribly, horribly wrong. "We wanted to surprise our fans with this new Christmas-themed episode," Mondo Media CEO John Evershed told Tubefilter. "They have been asking about it and we are happy to spread some Happy Tree Friends holiday cheer." The series, created by Kenn Navarro and Rhode Montijo, generates over 22 million views per month on Mondo Media’s YouTube channel, Mondo Mini Shows, a top 20 YouTube channel that recently passed the 1 billion-view mark. Mondo Media was one of the nearly 100 YouTube Original Channels announced at the end of October as a part of a $100 million premium content initiative.
- 12/9/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Mondo Media, the force behind online animation sensation Happy Tree Friends, scored an original channel as a part of YouTube's announcement on Friday. The new channel, New Animators, will focus on Mondo Media's core audience of teens and young adults. Mondo's hugely successful animation shows have helped its YouTube channel amass 1 billion total upload views (996,630,260 currently, with an additional 4,298,217 in German and 168,858 in Spanish). "We've already been able to amass a really big audience (billion views and counting) on YouTube around hit properties like Happy Tree Friends and Dick Figures," John Evershed, Mondo Media CEO, told Tubefilter. "Being part of the new YouTube Original Channels program will help us to launch more new, higher quality shows on a regular, higher frequency basis—all key factors in success on YouTube. Couple this with the Google TV announcement and it's pretty easy to see how this lays down the tracks for...
- 11/1/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
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