{"id":10134,"date":"2016-05-24T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/garfield-to-get-animated-movie-treatments\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:21:26","slug":"garfield-to-get-animated-movie-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/garfield-to-get-animated-movie-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield Set for Animated Movie Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Alcon Entertainment has secured exclusive rights to produce animated theatrical motion pictures based on the <em>Garfield<\/em> comic strip.<\/p>\n<p>Alcon acquired the rights from <em>Garfield<\/em> creator Jim Davis, who will serve as an executive producer on the films. The company intends to build a franchise of fully CG animated <em>Garfield<\/em>\u00a0movies.<\/p>\n<p>John Cohen (<em>Despicable Me<\/em>, <em>The Angry Birds Movie<\/em>) and Steven P. 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Bridget McMeel from Amuse will executive produce with Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, co-founders and co-CEOs of Alcon Entertainment, commented: &#8220;Jim Davis&#8217;s creation has been an international sensation for all ages for decades, and we are thrilled to bring an animated <em>Garfield<\/em> feature to the big screen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been so impressed with the quality of animation and storytelling coming out of Hollywood of late,\u201d said Davis. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get into production with the terrific team Alcon has assembled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Alcon Entertainment has secured exclusive rights to produce animated theatrical motion pictures based on the Garfield comic strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":10137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1286,1287],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-alcon-entertainment","tag-garfield","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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