SPTI Takes On Multiplatform Property

CULVER CITY, February 13: Sony Pictures Television
International (SPTI) has secured the international television, Internet,
digital sell-through, gaming and mobile rights to the futuristic 2.5-D animated
property Afterworld.

As part of the agreement, SPTI will represent 130 two-minute
episodes for distribution across TV, web and mobile outlets. The episodes will
be made available as two-minute episodes as well as 13 half-hour episodes for
broadcasters. Dedicated web content will be available on Afterworld.tv, as well
as archived back episodes, daily journal entries, community blogs, interactive
content applications and online games. This marks SPTI's first-ever acquisition
of a project for exploitation across all of these platforms, and involves
SPTI's distribution, international networks and digital business lines.

Afterworld follows
the adventures of Russell Shoemaker, who wakes up in New York after a global
event occurs in which technology is rendered useless and 99 percent of the
population is missing. He is compelled to walk to Seattle in the hope that his
wife and child have survived. On this trek, he pieces together the complex
mystery behind the global event while encountering survivors that are
rebuilding society in strange and surprising ways. The series was devised by
the Emmy-Award nominated producer Stan Rogow (Lizzie McGuire, All I Want for Christmas) and multi-platform writer Brent Friedman (Command
& Conquer: Tiberium Wars video game, Dark
Skies, Mortal Kombat 2). Rogow and Friedman are the principals of the
digital studio Electric Farm Entertainment alongside Jeff Sagansky.