Advisors
John W. Cones
Edward M. Anderson
Edward M. Anderson
Attorney/Author/
Lecturer Counsel to LLC Manager
John Cones is a securities/entertainment attorney licensed to practice in the states of California and Texas. His primary area of expertise is federal and state securities compliance for entertainment oriented business plans, limited partnership, limited liability and corporate stock offe
Attorney/Author/
Lecturer Counsel to LLC Manager
John Cones is a securities/entertainment attorney licensed to practice in the states of California and Texas. His primary area of expertise is federal and state securities compliance for entertainment oriented business plans, limited partnership, limited liability and corporate stock offerings providing financing for feature films, Internet companies, television pilots, live stage plays, documentaries and infomercials. Mr. Cones has worked in that area of the law for 23 years in Los Angeles and has participated in the production of the required disclosure documents for more than 250 securities offerings, including 180 film offerings. Some 62 independently produced feature and documentary films have been developed, produced or distributed as a result of those investor offerings. Mr. Cones has lectured on film finance topics throughout the United States and is currently conducting a national “film finance” lecture tour.
Edward M. Anderson
Edward M. Anderson
Edward M. Anderson
Advisor Counsel to
IQI MEDIA and LLC Manager
- J.D. Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley 1998
- Art Center College of Design,
- Illustration/Fine Art Program 1994
- A.B. Stanford University 1991
Executive Producer
Edward M. Anderson
Executive Producer
P. K.
To be Announced...coming soon!
Production Team
Writer/Director
MIKE DE SEVE
Mike de Seve is an Emmy-nominated animation writer and director working in feature films and television. He is founder of Baboon Animation, a collective of some of the most accomplished animation writers in the US, with 31 Emmy Awards among them and clients including Disney, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Warner Brothers.
At DreamWorks, Mr. de Seve was a script consultant on six films, including Madagascar (on which he was also a sequence director), Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third. He co-wrote the original story, with Mark Osborne, for Monsters vs. Aliens. At Paramount, he was a director and writer on the feature film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
In Television, Mr. de Seve has head-written and/or directed for such iconic series as Angry Birds Toons, Sesame Street, Pocoyo and Saturday Night Live, and for numerous major clients such as Disney, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Television.
He has more recently been focused on applying his company’s skills and relationships toward progressive causes -- such as the launch of Baboon Animation Africa, integrating BIPOC talent into the industry and addressing climate change with fun kids’ content.
Comedy Writer
John Reynolds
John Reynolds is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning comedy writer. His writing experience includes Comedy Central’s “The President Show” and six years as a staff writer on “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on CBS. He was the head writer on DreamWorks’ “Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show” and a writer on the DreamWorks reboot of the iconic “Rocky & Bullwinkle” series. His clients have included CBS, NBC, Fox, Warner Bros., Jim Henson, Gary Sanchez, Conaco, The History Channel, and The Disney Channel.
Writer
JOE VITALE
An experienced writer, head writer and development lead, Baboon Animation’s Head of Series Joe Vitale has written numerous global hit shows including Gigantosaurus, Oddgbods, Angry Birds Toons, Taffy, Pocoyo, Insectibles, Super Wings and countless others. His feature credits include films for Dreamworks, Lionsgate and Shout! Factory. His work has aired globally on Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Amazon, Disney +, and Paramount +. A veteran of Dreamworks Feature Animation, Mr. Vitale specializes in assembling writing teams for series and films, while leading the development of new and original IP.
Recent News
Winnie The Pooh Is Loose And Heading Back To The Screen
Beloved kid-lit favorite Winnie the Pooh is getting a makeover courtesy of Baboon Animation, the studio of DreamWorks alum Mike de Seve (Madagascar, Monsters vs. Aliens) and IQI Media. The new project – envisioned as a feature length film followed by a potential animated series – re-imagines Pooh and the gang as kids ginning up trouble for young Christopher Robin.
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Baboon Animation and IQI line up a Pooh prequel push
Speaking to Kidscreen, de Seve says the idea to adapt it again came from listening to a sped-up version of the novel’s audiobook “on the hunch that this was really witty, funny stuff that everybody usually reads too sleepy-slowly.”
“At 2x speed, it was hilarious! Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet rival Gumball and Darwin as a duo filled with ridiculous kid ideas and even worse kid execution,” he says. “For me, that’s the real Pooh, and we’re super-excited to be the ones to make that version come alive for the first time.”
‘Winnie the Pooh’ Origin Story Prequel in the Works at Baboon Animation, IQI
Mike de Seve: “I think this unsinkable young cub is totally relatable for today’s kids, with his hell-bent craving for honey and his ludicrous schemes to get it. The whole gang is hilarious, and are even more hilarious as kids, we’re finding out.”
‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ Prequel Feature in Works as Producers Look to Emulate ‘Paddington,’ ‘Peter Rabbit’
Kelly: “A.A. Milne’s bear has aged gracefully in the last hundred years. But what happened, back when, that made him and his pals who they are in the book? A heck of a big adventure, that’s what – one that needs a big screen. Audiences will be transported to somewhere they never expected.”
Winnie the Pooh to Head Back to the Beginning in Adventurous Origin Story Prequel
.The film helmed by former DreamWorks creator is expected to arrive in 2024
A prequel feature and series inspired by British writer A.A. Milnes children’s classic
“We’re telling the surprising origin story of the ‘silly young bear’ and his friends, when they were still kids, in a way designed to connect with 21st-century kids,” said Reynolds.
Baboon Animation Announces ‘Winnie-The-Pooh’ Origin Story Prequel Feature
Baboon Animation and IQI Media have revealed they’re working on an animated prequel feature and series to A.A. Milne’s 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh: in lavorzione il prequel per Dreamworks
DreamWorks sta lavorando ad un film prequel su Winnie the Pooh, che ricalcherà progetti come Paddington.
Baboon Animation & IQI Plan ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ Prequel Film & Series
The feature film is being planned for release in 2024, to be followed immediately by an animated series.
As for what Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit and the rest of the Hundred Acre Wood squad first illustrated by E.H. Shepard will look like with a modern animated makeover, Kelly advises: “Brace yourself for a surprise.”
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