Ex-Film Roman Execs Set Up New Venture

BURBANK: Three former Film Roman executives have set up Bento Box Entertainment, a new production firm that is already at work on an animated prime-time series for Twentieth Century Fox Television, Jeffrey Katzenberg and DreamWorks Animation.

Bento Box Entertainment aims to develop and produce animated and live-action series and films as well as interactive and new-media properties, on both a work-for-hire and original IP basis. Leading the firm are Scott Greenberg, the former president and COO of Film Roman, Joel Kuwahara, a veteran producer on The Simpsons, and Mark McJimsey, longtime producer on King of the Hill.

Bento Box is currently producing the upcoming TBS series Neighbors From Hell (debuting in the summer of 2010) for Twentieth Century Fox Television in conjunction with Jeffrey Katzenberg and DreamWorks Animation. Jeffrey Katzenberg, Pam Brady and Mireille Soria are executive producers. Bento Box principal Joel Kuwahara will serve as supervising producer of the series.