Bento Box Entertainment

Bento Box Entertainment
LLC
Founded 2009
Founder Scott Greenberg
Joel Kuwahara
Mark McJimsey
Headquarters North Hollywood, California, United States
Subsidiaries Sutikki
Sutikki UK
Website www.bentoboxent.com

Bento Box Entertainment (also known as Bento Box Animation) is an American animation studio located in North Hollywood, California.[1] It was founded in 2009 by executive producers Scott Greenberg, Joel Kuwahara, and Mark McJimsey. The current owners of Bento Box Entertainment are Scott Greenberg, Joel Kuwahara, and Brett Coker. The name comes from bento boxes, a meal style in Japanese cuisine.

Bento Box Entertainment is an Emmy award-winning studio that develops and produces quality-animated content for all distribution platforms worldwide. Recognized as the leading producer of primetime animated comedy series for broadcast, cable and digital networks, the company works with the leading networks, studios and distribution companies including Fox Broadcasting Company, Comedy Central, MTV, Adult Swim, HBO, Hulu, IFC, Disney, 20th Century Fox Television (including Fox 21), Sony Pictures Television, Lionsgate, The Tornante Company, and Broadway Video among others.[2]

It produced the series Bob's Burgers in 2011 for Fox. It is currently in production on the YouTube series Glove and Boots.

Bento Box Entertainment has four animation studios - in North Hollywood, Burbank, Bento Box Animation Studio Atlanta, in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bento Box Canada in Toronto, Ontario.[3][4] [5]

On October 11, 2016, Bento Box launched a children's division called Sutikki.[6] Sutikki opened an office in the United Kingdom.[7]

Bento Box Interactive

Bento Box Interactive is an entertainment-based technology company launched in 2012 by Bento Box Entertainment. In October 2012, Bento Box Interactive partnered with Alicia Keys to create an education mobile application entitled "The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee" for iOS devices.[8] The application tells the story of the relationship between a young New York City girl and her wise grandmother and features two original songs by Keys, "Follow the Moon" and "Unlock Yourself".[9]

Productions

Television series

Title Years Network Notes
Neighbors from Hell2010TBSco-production with 20th Century Fox Television, DreamWorks Television and MoonBoy Animation
Bob's Burgers2011–presentFOXco-production with 20th Century Fox Television, Wilo Productions and Buck & Millie Productions
Allen Gregory2011FOXco-production with 20th Century Fox Television and Chernin Entertainment
Brickleberry2012–15Comedy Centralco-production with Fox 21, Damn! Show Productions and Black Heart Productions
Out There2013IFCco-production with 20th Century Fox Television and Quincy Productions
Perfect Hair Forever2014Adult Swimco-production with Williams Street; episodes 8 and 9 only
Bordertown2016FOXco-production with 20th Century Fox Television, Fuzzy Door Productions and Hentemann Films
Legends of Chamberlain Heights2016–17Comedy Central
Moon and Me[10]2018CBBCFirst Sutikki production
The PandasTBAco-production with Wumo
The Blues Brothers[11]TBA
Murder PoliceUnairedFOXco-production with 20th Century Fox Television; Pulled from schedule

Internet series

Title Years Site Notes
Glove and Boots2010–2017 (on hiatus)YouTubeShow originally a local production in New York from 2004 until 2006.
The Awesomes2013–2015HuluHulu web-series, co-production with Broadway Video and Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions
The Who Was? Show[12]2018–presentNetflixco-production with Penguin Random House, FremantleMedia and Matador Content
Paradise PD2018–presentNetflixco-production with Damn! Show Productions and Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment
HoopsTBANetflixco-production with 20th Century Fox Television

Films

Release Date Title Notes
March 18, 2014Achmed Saves Americadirect-to-video; co-production with Levity Entertainment Group
January 20, 2015Madea's Tough Lovedirect-to-video; co-production with Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bentoboxent.com/
  2. ↑ https://www.bentoboxent.com/about-bento-box
  3. ↑ "New Animation Studio Opens in Atlanta". ajc.com. 2012-09-28.
  4. ↑ http://kidscreen.com/2015/10/05/mipjunior-15-corus-bento-box-launch-bento-box-canada/
  5. ↑ https://www.bentoboxent.com/about-bento-box
  6. ↑ http://kidscreen.com/2016/10/11/ex-nelvana-execs-helm-bento-boxs-new-kids-division/
  7. ↑ http://kidscreen.com/2017/03/23/bento-boxs-sutikki-opens-uk-office/
  8. ↑ "Alicia Keys Launches New Animated App". Rap-Up.com. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
  9. ↑ "Alicia Keys Launches Interactive App for Kids | Music News". Rolling Stone. 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
  10. ↑ http://kidscreen.com/2017/02/14/andrew-davenport-sutikki-score-cbeebies-order/
  11. ↑ "Bento Box Entertainment to Develop and Produce "The Blues Brothers" Primetime Animated Series". May 6, 2016.
  12. ↑ http://kidscreen.com/2017/05/11/penguins-who-was-books-inspire-netflix-series/
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