MSH Entertainment and Abrams/Gentile Entertainment Form Happy Zone Entertainment Corporation; First Project is New Children's Half-Hour Live Action/Animated Series, Vampires, Featuring Combination Live Action and Hi-End Computer Generated Animation; First Time Utilizing MSHE's Ground-Breaking Animation Production Management Software System; Toy Line Tied to Series in the Works.NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1996--Jonathan Stathakis, President/COO of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden based MSH MSH melanocyte-stimulating hormone. MSH abbr. melanocyte-stimulating hormone MSH, n See hormone, melanocyte-stimulating. MSH melanocyte-stimulating hormone. Entertainment Corporation (MSHE MSHE Ministry of Science and Higher Education MSHE Master of Science in Health Education ) and John Gentile, President of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of based Abrams/Gentile Entertainment (AGE) jointly announced the formation of Happy Zone Entertainment Corporation and inked a pact to produce 13 episodes of Vampires, a weekly Saturday morning children's series. The series will feature a combination of live action and highly sophisticated computer animation utilizing MSHE's ground breaking, production management software system: Jethro, developed with the cooperation of Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking . Under the arrangement, Happy Zone will have first right of refusal to all children's and family projects which are presented to Happy Zone and MSHE from outside parties as well as those projects which are developed in-house. Happy Zone will also form its own in-house distribution and music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. divisions to operate and manage distribution and music publishing of its own products. Negotiations for Happy Zone's first animated children's series, Vampires, are being concluded with a major broadcaster to debut the series in September 1997. Additionally, a master world-wide license for a line of boy's toys created around the series is currently being negotiated with a major toy company and will be announced shortly. Under the Happy Zone venture, Vampires will be the first animated series to use the Jethro system. MSHE recently announced an agreement with Intel Corporation under which Intel will cooperate in the development of MSHE's new production management software system. This system will be used as a work flow manager for advanced animation rendering projects utilizing Intel architecture-based work stations. The Vampires series concept, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. its co-creator and producer, John Gentile, centers upon a group of derelict vans in a junkyard who come to life with a "need to feed." Instead of feeding on blood, these "Vampires" feed on gasoline, consuming huge amounts of the precious commodity and, in the process, raise their army of gas hungry cars. During the daylight hours, the Vampires appear to be benign vehicles, but at night, they rise up to terrorize ter·ror·ize tr.v. ter·ror·ized, ter·ror·iz·ing, ter·ror·iz·es 1. To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. 2. To coerce by intimidation or fear. See Synonyms at frighten. the city and drain the planet dry. They are foiled each week by a group of teen-aged "car junkies" who shape-shift into automotive superheroes Superheroes are fictional heroes who possess abilities beyond those of normal human beings. Superheroes may also refer to:
The toy line toy line n. Chiefly Southern U.S. The line used in a game of marbles. tying in with the Vampires series will - via various gadgetry gadg·et·ry n. 1. Gadgets considered as a group. 2. The design or construction of gadgets. Noun 1. gadgetry - appliances collectively; "laborsaving gadgetry" - be able to transform from a "regular car" into any one of the automotive superheroes or evil vampires. The toys will actually fly via a launcher similar to AGE's highly successful Sky Dancer and Dragon Flyz toys. Sky Dancer is currently the largest selling girl's toy in the world. Dragon Flyz and Sky Dancer, both Saturday morning animated series, are currently in syndication nationwide with Dragon Flyz currently being the number one boy's animated series in syndication. Notes Gentile: "The Vampires series will be unique on a variety of levels. Because of the capabilities of MSHE's new Jethro animation system, we'll be able to create both a revolutionary new look for weekend animation and truly be unrestrained in our layout and storyboard A sequence of images and annotations for a cartoon, animation or video. Storyboards are previews of the final version and typically contain mockups rather than final art and images. Before computers, storyboards were drawn with pen and ink on lightweight cardboard. design. Vampires will also be highly stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. in concept. Five minutes of live-action `daylight' segments will bookend the opening and closing of the show, with computer-generated animation carrying the `nighttime' story lines sandwiched in-between." Comments Stathakis: "MSHE is at the forefront of a progressive shift in computer animation. Vampires puts to the test our animation production software system Jethro, proving our capacity to produce faster, less expensive, better quality and more efficient animation than any animated series on the air. "In addition to Vampires," continues Stathakis, "Happy Zone has a second series in development that will also utilize the Jethro system, as well as four other animation and live action children's and family projects for next year. We are truly excited by this potential and because of it, our future plans for Happy Zone include our intention to file an IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. registration statement to transition the company from a private to a publicly traded stock company." No specific date is scheduled; however, preliminary planning has begun, and depending on the market conditions, a target date of between 12 to 15 months is estimated. Adds Anthony Gentile, AGE vice-president and co-creator of Vampires: "We're very optimistic about the potential of this production and using the Jethro system. It opens up an entire new area for our ability to create shows which truly push the limits in terms of storyboards, storylines and production values. Vampires will be the first in a slate of animated children's series we'll produce that will be considerably deeper and more richly textured - from a production standpoint - than your typical children's TV fare." AGE is a full range entertainment company founded in 1986 by John and Anthony Gentile and Marty Abrams. The company's projects have ranged from toy development and licensing to film and television production, research and development of new technologies, as well as theme park conception and design. AGE has created a variety of toy product for Mattel, Hasbro/Kenner, Galoob, Ertl and various other toy manufacturers. The company's enormously successful Sky Dancers toy line from Galoob has overtaken the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ("MMPR") is an American live-action television series, created for the American market, based on the sixteenth installment of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. to become the Number One girl's toy in the marketplace over last year according to the "What's Hot" list in "Toy Book." Other AGE properties from Galoob include the award-winning Happy Ness: The Secret of The Loch and Dragon Flyz. MSHE is a film, television, home video and computer animation production company as well as a software development company as evidenced by its recent strategic alliance agreement with Intel. MSHE's key management team and creative staff of entertainment professionals who, as a group, have won several entertainment industry honors including Emmy, ACE, Tony and Billboard Music Awards. In addition, MSHE has assembled a highly skilled team of Silicon Valley software designers and animators who are leading the technology and animation software management process. MSHE's management team will be activity involved in the day-to-day operation of Happy Zone. MSHE is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. on NASDAQ-OTC/Bulletin Board (sym: MSHE). CONTACT: Jeff Urdank, 818/509-0195 |
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