CritterPix Studios Announces Regency Frolicks with MADAGASCAR Writer.

LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Regency Enterprises Regency Enterprises is a Los Angeles-based motion picture and television production company formed by Arnon Milchan and Joseph P. Grace. It was founded in 1982 as Embassy International Pictures has hired veteran screenwriter Billy Frolick to pen the script for the upcoming animated CG feature film OLLIE. The studio previously announced its collaboration with the northern California-based CritterPix Studios on the ambitious project.

"OLLIE is an exciting project for Regency, and we look forward to working with Billy on our first foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"
raid

encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my this ever growing genre," said Regency's President of Production, Sanford Panitch.

Frolick, co-writer of DreamWorks highly-anticipated May 27th release MADAGASCAR, is expected to deliver the OLLIE script for storyboarding shortly. CritterPix will begin full-scale production soon after.

"In addition to contracting a top writer for our story, CritterPix will employ veteran computer graphic artistic talent and cutting-edge digital design tools to bring OLLIE to life and deliver an entertaining motion picture," said veteran animation producer, Gary Goldman For the screenwriter, see .

Gary Goldman (born November 17 1944 in Oakland, California) is an American animator. Pre-Disney
Raised in Watsonville, California, as a youth, Goldman studied piano and enjoyed model-making and drawing. .

About Regency Enterprises

Regency Enterprises was founded in 1991 by Arnon Milchan, the producer of such 1980's classics as Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and the international box office smash Pretty Woman. Regency has produced more than 70 films over the years, including JFK, L.A. Confidential, Big Momma's House, Unfaithful, Daredevil, Man on Fire, Guess Who and the upcoming release Mr. & Mrs. Smith. www.newregency.com.

About CritterPix, Inc.

CritterPix, Inc. (CritterPix Studios) is an animation studio Animation studio can refer to:

a studio where animation is created—see the List of animation studios.
Any three dimensional software animation package such as 3ds Max, Blender 3D, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Maya, Houdini, or XSI.

that combines original stories and computer generated artistry for enlightening family entertainment. The Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern studio's animation veterans will employ cutting edge digital design tools to produce its first feature motion picture, OLLIE. CritterPix is working with Regency Enterprises for the world wide release and distribution of OLLIE. www.critterpix.com.

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