Tubi continues to expand its adult animated programming, giving a green light to Breaking Bear, an adult animated comedy series from The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia director Julien Nitzberg, Creepshow producer Cartel Entertainment, and Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Media (Monsters of California).
Created by Nitzberg, Breaking Bear parodies the tropes of mobster dramas, comically combining elements of Yogi Bear with The Sopranos. It follows the escapades of three bear siblings who decide they have to start selling drugs in order to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave. The bears soon enlist other forest animals in a scheme that will pit them against oil companies, The Russian Mafia, local Hell’s Angels and polar bears who hate anything that isn’t white.
“When The Cartel pitched a series with cartoon animals as mobsters, I knew...
Created by Nitzberg, Breaking Bear parodies the tropes of mobster dramas, comically combining elements of Yogi Bear with The Sopranos. It follows the escapades of three bear siblings who decide they have to start selling drugs in order to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave. The bears soon enlist other forest animals in a scheme that will pit them against oil companies, The Russian Mafia, local Hell’s Angels and polar bears who hate anything that isn’t white.
“When The Cartel pitched a series with cartoon animals as mobsters, I knew...
- 8/15/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Tubi has greenlit “Breaking Bear,” an adult animated series created by Julien Nitzberg and produced by Cartel Entertainment and Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Media.
Described as a parody of mobster dramas, combining elements of Yogi Bear with “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bear” Breaking Bear follows the escapades of three bear siblings who decide they have to start selling drugs in order to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave. The bears soon enlist other forest animals in a scheme that will pit them against oil companies, the Russian mafia, local Hell’s Angels and polar bears who hate anything that isn’t white.
“When The Cartel pitched a series with cartoon animals as mobsters, I knew it was an offer I couldn’t refuse,” said Adam Lewinson, chief content officer at Tubi. “This is the perfect project to expand our adult animation...
Described as a parody of mobster dramas, combining elements of Yogi Bear with “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bear” Breaking Bear follows the escapades of three bear siblings who decide they have to start selling drugs in order to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave. The bears soon enlist other forest animals in a scheme that will pit them against oil companies, the Russian mafia, local Hell’s Angels and polar bears who hate anything that isn’t white.
“When The Cartel pitched a series with cartoon animals as mobsters, I knew it was an offer I couldn’t refuse,” said Adam Lewinson, chief content officer at Tubi. “This is the perfect project to expand our adult animation...
- 8/15/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Cartel, the management and production company behind series including Shudder’s Creepshow, is expanding its kids and family division.
It has hired Kimberley Mooney as a manager. Mooney joins from Nickelodeon, where she was Senior Director of Animation Development. Before joining the ViacomCBS kids network, she spent ten years at Disney, where she developed series including Fish Hooks, Tron – Uprising, Motorcity and DuckTales.
She will report to partner and manager Bradford Bricken.
It comes after the company set up Field Day Entertainment, a production company run by former Netflix kids and family director Jenny Boyd, who is also a manager at The Cartel.
“Kimberley loves animation and the wonderful artists who create it,” said Bricken. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome this tireless artist advocate to our team.”...
It has hired Kimberley Mooney as a manager. Mooney joins from Nickelodeon, where she was Senior Director of Animation Development. Before joining the ViacomCBS kids network, she spent ten years at Disney, where she developed series including Fish Hooks, Tron – Uprising, Motorcity and DuckTales.
She will report to partner and manager Bradford Bricken.
It comes after the company set up Field Day Entertainment, a production company run by former Netflix kids and family director Jenny Boyd, who is also a manager at The Cartel.
“Kimberley loves animation and the wonderful artists who create it,” said Bricken. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome this tireless artist advocate to our team.”...
- 5/5/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
U.S. production, finance and management firm The Cartel has appointed Apa’s former head of motion picture literary Ryan Saul as manager/producer and has promoted Bradford Bricken to partner.
The Cartel’s co-ceo Stan Spry said Saul had a “penchant for discovering young talent,” and added “his ability to nurture that talent is something we pride ourselves in.”
Saul began his career as an executive assistant at the Walt Disney Company and went on to become head of motion picture literary at Apa. Most recently, he was a motion picture literary agent at Paradigm Talent Agency.
According to a statement, “He has garnered the reputation of being able to develop clients from unknown writers or young short film directors to become some of the leading creatives in Hollywood, working on some of the biggest studio films in production.”
His clients included Tim Reckart, who is directing “High in the Clouds” for Netflix,...
The Cartel’s co-ceo Stan Spry said Saul had a “penchant for discovering young talent,” and added “his ability to nurture that talent is something we pride ourselves in.”
Saul began his career as an executive assistant at the Walt Disney Company and went on to become head of motion picture literary at Apa. Most recently, he was a motion picture literary agent at Paradigm Talent Agency.
According to a statement, “He has garnered the reputation of being able to develop clients from unknown writers or young short film directors to become some of the leading creatives in Hollywood, working on some of the biggest studio films in production.”
His clients included Tim Reckart, who is directing “High in the Clouds” for Netflix,...
- 6/22/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Cartel, the production, finance and management company behind AMC’s Creepshow, has tapped Paradigm’s Ryan Saul as a manager/producer and promoted Bradford Bricken to partner.
Saul joins The Cartel after only a year at Paradigm. Previously he was at Apa, where he was co-head of the agency’s motion picture literary department, and served as an agent at Metropolitan Talent and Jim Preminger Agency.
Saul’s clients have over the years included The Maze Runner director Wes Ball, Oscar-nominated animation director Tim Reckart (High In The Clouds), and Fantastic Four director Josh Trank.
Bricken has been a manager at The Cartel since 2014. He recently served as an executive producer on Netflix’s Twelve Forever alongside The Cartel’s founders and CEOs Stan Spry and Jeff Holland.
Clients include Mike Hollingsworth (Bojack Horseman), playwright and screenwriter Qui Nguyen (Vietgone), and Glenn Clements (The Late Late Show With James Corden...
Saul joins The Cartel after only a year at Paradigm. Previously he was at Apa, where he was co-head of the agency’s motion picture literary department, and served as an agent at Metropolitan Talent and Jim Preminger Agency.
Saul’s clients have over the years included The Maze Runner director Wes Ball, Oscar-nominated animation director Tim Reckart (High In The Clouds), and Fantastic Four director Josh Trank.
Bricken has been a manager at The Cartel since 2014. He recently served as an executive producer on Netflix’s Twelve Forever alongside The Cartel’s founders and CEOs Stan Spry and Jeff Holland.
Clients include Mike Hollingsworth (Bojack Horseman), playwright and screenwriter Qui Nguyen (Vietgone), and Glenn Clements (The Late Late Show With James Corden...
- 6/22/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
*Updated with the official press release.* Although the second season of Creepshow has yet to air, Shudder is wasting no time gearing up for a third season of the series based on George A. Romero and Stephen King's 1982 anthology film, as it's been revealed that AMC's streaming service has ordered a complete set of season 3 scripts:
Press Release: June 16, 2020 — Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has commissioned scripts for a full third season of Creepshow, showrun and executive produced by Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead) and based on George A. Romero’s iconic 1982 movie. The anthology series shattered all Shudder records when it debuted last October, and its first season has just concluded a successful run on AMC.
The second season was set to commence shooting in March in Atlanta, Georgia, but has been on hold until film and television production resumes.
Press Release: June 16, 2020 — Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has commissioned scripts for a full third season of Creepshow, showrun and executive produced by Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead) and based on George A. Romero’s iconic 1982 movie. The anthology series shattered all Shudder records when it debuted last October, and its first season has just concluded a successful run on AMC.
The second season was set to commence shooting in March in Atlanta, Georgia, but has been on hold until film and television production resumes.
- 6/16/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
You got it, dudes!
Fuller House actress Virginia Williams has welcomed her second child, a baby boy named Beau Rush Bricken, her rep confirms to People exclusively.
Beau was born on Tuesday, July 4, at 7:38 a.m. local time in Los Angeles, California, and weighed 8 lbs., 11 oz. and was 19 inches long.
“We are so excited to add baby Beau to our crazy, growing family,” Williams, 39, and her husband Bradford Bricken tell People. “Two boys under 2!!”
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Adds Williams,...
Fuller House actress Virginia Williams has welcomed her second child, a baby boy named Beau Rush Bricken, her rep confirms to People exclusively.
Beau was born on Tuesday, July 4, at 7:38 a.m. local time in Los Angeles, California, and weighed 8 lbs., 11 oz. and was 19 inches long.
“We are so excited to add baby Beau to our crazy, growing family,” Williams, 39, and her husband Bradford Bricken tell People. “Two boys under 2!!”
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Adds Williams,...
- 7/5/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Virginia Williams isn’t worried about losing the mother-son bond.
In a new interview with Momtastic, the Fuller House star dished on her own experiences with having a nanny as a child, and how that helped ease any worry about the strain it might put on the relationship between herself and her little boy, Bradford “Ford” Powell, 14 months.
“I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny,” said Williams, who plays Steve’s D.J.-doppelganger love interest C.
In a new interview with Momtastic, the Fuller House star dished on her own experiences with having a nanny as a child, and how that helped ease any worry about the strain it might put on the relationship between herself and her little boy, Bradford “Ford” Powell, 14 months.
“I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny,” said Williams, who plays Steve’s D.J.-doppelganger love interest C.
- 2/7/2017
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
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