Method Animation

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Method Animation
FormerlyMethod Films (1998–2009)
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Animation
Founded1998;26 years ago (1998)
FounderAton Soumache
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Key people
Katell France (managing director)
Parent Mediawan Kids & Family
Website www.mediawankidsandfamily.com/studios/22

Method Animation (formerly Method Films) is a French animation studio owned by Mediawan through its Kids & Family division founded in 1998 by Aton Soumache. The studio produces CGI and 2D animated shows. It came together in 2014 as the culmination of a merger of Dimitri Rassam's Chapter 2 and Alexis Vonarb's Onyx Films. [1] [2] [3] In 2018, Mediawan (which was founded by Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse and Pierre-Antoine Capton in 2015) obtained a majority stake in Method Animation through its acquisition of ON Kids & Family and ON Entertainment. [4]

Contents

History

In 1996 while during the production of Christian Volckman’s short Maaz, producer Aton Soumache and Alexis Vonarb launched his own production company dedicated to short films and feature films named Onyx Films.

Two years later in 1998, Aton Soucmache and Alexis Vonarb entered the TV business by launching Method Animation which was known as Method Films at that time.

In December 1999, It was announced that Method Films had teamed up with Paris-based animation studio Millimages to launch a new stop-motion animation joint-venture studio based in Paris which would be named Gimmick. The new animation studio will work on Method Films in-house projects along with Millimages' works and would work on co-productions as well as outside clients such as TV adverts. Their first programme related to the partnership was Skyland. [5]

In August 2006 Method Films and its CG animation production company Onyx Films announced that they've partnered a joint venture with Indian animation and visual effects company DQ Entertainment to produce its feature films. [6]

In January 2014, it was announced that Method Animation along with Onyx Films and drama film producer Chapter 2 announced that they had merged together by their founders Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam to form a new leading animation and film audiovisual production group named ON Entertainment with the new company launching its focus on their animated series and feature films along with live-action films. Method Animation and Onyx Films along with film production company Chapter 2 became labels of the new production and audiovisual group with Method Animation became ON Entertainment's animation label under their ON Kids & Family division with film production house Chapter 2 became ON's film production label. [7] [8] [9]

In September 2016, Method Animation's parent company ON Entertainment announced that they've established an North American animation studio based in Montréal, Canada named ON Animation Studios Montréal to increase their film production. [10] [11]

In December 2017, it was announced that a European-based French special-acquisition company named Mediawan was in exclusive talks to buy a majority stake of ON Entertainment along with ON Kids & Family and their labels Method Animation and film production house Chapter 2 for about €50 million. [12] [13] [14] A year later in June 2018, Mediawan announced that they've completed their acquisition of a majority stake in ON Entertainment and renamed it ON Kids & Family after their division with Chapter 2 split from ON and moved under Mediawan's portfolio. [15]

In April 2019 one year after Mediawan's acquisition of ON Entertainment and their division ON Kids & Family, ON Kids & Family and their parent company Mediawan announced that they've established a partnership with world-renowned French producer, illustrator and author Joann Sfar to develop the author's works into film and television adaptations with the acquisition of a majority stake in Joann Sfar's animation production company Nice Pictures and had it placed under ON Kids & Family. [16]

In June 2020, ON Kids & Family and it's parent company Mediawan announced that they've rebranded their Joann Sfar's Paris-based production company Nice Pictures as their mini-studio renaming it to Magical Society with Veteran animation producer and founder of Method Animation and producer Aton Soumache and award-winning publisher Joann Sfar heading the rebranded company. [17]

In February 2021, ON Kids & Family announced that they've expanded their TV state into preschool television series and has partnered with Chinese toy manufacturer and global media company Alpha Group Co. Ltd to jointly develop ON's first preschool animated series named Petronix Defenders with Alpha Group develop toys made for the show and will distribute the show in Asia-Pacific and MENA while Mediawan's distribution arm Mediawan Rights will distribute the show worldwide elsewhere. [18]

In June 2022, when ON Kids & Family's parent company Mediawan announced that they're bringing all of their kids and family activities and ramping up their youth entertainment content, it was announced that Mediawan had rebranded ON Kids & Family and relaunching it as a new division under the Mediawan name which was renamed Mediawan Kids & Family, marking the end of the ON name after 7 years with Method Animation, Magical Society, ON Animation Studios and ON Classics becoming part of the newly renamed division with the latter two retaining the ON name. Mediawan Kids & Family and their parent company Mediawan also announced that they've launched two new production labels which was traditional animation production studio Somewhere Animation and live-action studio Elliot Studio along with Mediawan Kids & Family launching their own distribution division that will handle all of their original live action and animated productions along with third-party programmes. [19] [20] [21] Three days later in that same month, Method Animation and their parent Mediawan Kids & Family announced that they've joined forces with Miraculous creator Thomas Astruc, Shibuya Productions and Japanese animation studio Tezuka Productions to reboot Osamu Tezuka's best-selling manga series Astro Boy into a new CGI half-hour animated series which will be named Astro Boy Reboot. [22]

In December 2022, Method Animation along with their parent Mediawan Kids & Family announced that they have hired Katell France the founder of her animation studio Onikiri as Chief Content Officer and Managing Director of the Method Animation label. [23]

In February 2023, Mediawan Kids & Family along with their parent company Mediawan had announced that they've acquired a majority stake in Bristol-based British scripted and animation production company Wildseed Studios, marking Mediawan's youth entertainment division Mediawan Kids & Family's first international acquisition with Wildseed Studios becoming part of Mediawan Kids & Family as their own production label. [24]

Key people

Aton Soumache

Aton Soumache is a producer of animated films. He is the CEO of Method Animation. Soumache is perhaps best known for The Little Prince , for which he, Rassam, Alexis Vonarb, and Mark Osborne won the 2016 César Award for Best Animated Film. [25]

Dimitri Rassam

Dimitri Rassam is a film producer and founder of Chapter 2. [26]

Caroline Guillot

She is the marketing manager of Method Animation. [27]

Alexis Vonarb

He was born in 1970, and is an alumnus of Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg. [28] Then he studied at the University of Leicester in the UK. [28] While working in production at La Fémis in 1995, he got to know Soumache. [28] He founded Onyx Films, which went on to produce 15 films, including Renaissance (2006) which won an award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. [28]

Filmography

Television series

Method Animation

TitleYearsNetworkNotes
The Gnoufs 2004–2007 France 3
Flatmania 2004–2008France 3
YTV 		co-production with Futurikon and Vivatoon
Skyland 2006–2007 France 2
Teletoon 		co-production with 9 Story Entertainment, LuxAnimation and DQ Entertainment
Pop Secret2006–2007 M6 co-production with Futurikon, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 2 Minutes and 222 Records
Cosmic Quantum Ray 2007 Animania
M6
Kika 		co-production with Mike Young Productions, Cosmotoons, Europool, Telegael, SK C&C, Independence Creative and Maya Entertainment
Freefonix [29] 2008–2009 CBBC co-production with Cinnamon Entertainment, Toonz Animation and Isle of Man Film
The Pinky and Perky Show 2008France 3
CBBC		co-production with Pinky & Perky Enterprises and DQ Entertainment
Iron Man: Armored Adventures [30] 2009–2013France 2/France 4
Nicktoons 		co-production with Marvel Animation, DQ Entertainment, LuxAnimation (season 1), Isle of Man Film (season 1), Genius (season 1), Fabrique D'Images (season 2) and Onyx Lux (season 2)
Le Petit Nicolas [31] 2009–2010M6co-production with M6 Studio, LuxAnimation, DQ Entertainment and ZDF Enterprises
The Little Prince [32] 2010–2015France 3
WDR
Rai 2/Rai Yoyo 		co-production with LPPTV, LP Animation, DQ Entertainment, Rai Fiction, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (seasons 1–2), Fabrique D'Images (seasons 1–2), AB Productions (season 3) and ARD
Chaplin & Co [33] [34] [35] 2011–2012France 3co-production with MK2, DQ Entertainment and Fabrique D'Images
The New Adventures of Peter Pan [36] [37] [38] [39] 2012–2016France 3
ZDF [40] 		co-production with DQ Entertainment, Story Board Animation, ZDF Enterprises and De Agostini Editore
Super 4 [41] 2014–2016France 3co-production with Morgen Studios
Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood [42] [43] 2015–2019 TF1
Disney Channel France (seasons 1–2)
ZDF		co-production with ZDF Enterprises, DQ Entertainment (seasons 1–2), Fabrique D'Images (season 1), De Agostini Editore (season 1) and KidsMe (season 3)
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir [44] 2015–presentTF1/TFX co-production with Zagtoon, Toei Animation, SAMG Entertainment (seasons 1–3), SK Broadband (seasons 1–3), De Agostini Editore (season 2–) Gloob (season 3-) and Gravity Animation (season 5–)
continued by Miraculous Corp. starting with season 6
Popples [45] 2015–2016 Netflix [46]
Gulli
Tiji 		co-production with Saban Brands, Zagtoon, DQ Entertainment, Nexus Factory and Umedia
Seven and Me [47] 2016–2017France 3co-production with AB Productions, DQ Entertainment, Nexus Factory, ZDF Enterprises and Rai Fiction
Zak Storm [48] [49] 2016–2018 Canal J
Gulli		co-production with Zagtoon, SAMG Animation, MNC Animation, SK Broadband, Man of Action Studios, PGS Entertainment and De Agostini Editore
Denver the Last Dinosaur [50] 2018M6co-production with Zagtoon, Nexus Factory, UMedia and PGS Entertainment
The Psammy Show [51] 2018–2019 Disney Channel Germany
Disney Channel France		co-production with DQ Entertainment
Apollo's Tall Tales [52] 2019 France 5/TiJi
ZDF		co-production with Bidibul Productions, PGS Entertainment and ZDF Enterprises
Power Players [53] 2019–2021France 4
Cartoon Network [54] [55]
Discovery Kids Latin America
WDR
Gloob 		co-production with Zagtoon, Man of Action Studios, WDR Media Group and Kaibou
The Enchanted Village of Pinocchio [56] 2022France 5
Rai Yoyo		co-production with Palomar, Rai Ragazzi and ZDF Studios
Petronix Defenders [56] [57] 2022M6
Gulli
Super RTL 		co-production with Alpha Group Co. Ltd and Palomar
The Little Prince and Friends [56] [58] 2023–presentFrance 5
WDR
Rai Yoyo
Gloob		co-production with Bidibul Productions, LPPTV and Rai Kids
Pirate Academy [59] 2024–presentM6
Gulli
Canal J
ZDF		co-production with Toonz Entertainment, Telegael, ZDF Studios and KidsMe
Karters [56] TBA Cartoonito EMEA [60]
Witch Detectives [61] TF1
Super RTL		co-production with Trickstudio Lutterbeck, Letko and Toonz Entertainment
The 3 Musketeers [62] [63] France Television
RAI
ZDF		co-production with Palomar, ZDF Studios and Rai Kids
Taïtikis Guardians of the Oceans [64] [65]
Anansi [64] TBAco-production with Diprente
Astro Boy Reboot [66] [67] TF1co-production with Tezuka Productions and Shibuya Productions
The Magic Roundabout [68] TBAco-production with Magic
Tuff Pom [69] France Televisionsco-production with Wildseed Studios
Tales of the Mirru: Vet Explorers [70] TBAco-production with Good Hero

Somewhere Animation

TitleYearsNetworkNotes
Chefclub Adventures [71] TBATBAco-production with Snacking Media
Tentem [72] co-production with Marla Studio

Wildseed Studios

TitleYearsNetworkNotes
Counterfeit Cat 2016–2017 Disney XD
Teletoon 		co-production with Tricon Kids & Family
Dodo [73] 2021–present Sky Kids co-production with Telegael, Toonz Media Group and Ingenious Media
Ama's Story [74] 2023
Tuff Pom [69] TBA France Televisions co-production with Method Animation

Films

TitleRelease dateDistributorNotes
Renaissance March 15, 2006 Pathé Distribution co-production with Pathé, Millimages, LuxAnimation, France 2 Cinema and Timefirm Limited
Trouble at Timpetill December 17, 2008co-production with Chapter 2 and LuxAnimation
The Prodigies June 8, 2011 Warner Bros. Pictures co-production with Studio 37, Fidelite Films, DQ Entertainment and LuxAnimation
Upside Down [75] August 31, 2012 (Canada)
April 17, 2013 (France)		Warner Bros. Pictures (France)
Les Films Séville (Canada)		Live-action film
co-production with Kinology, Transfilm International, Studio 37, Jorour Productions and France 2 Cinema
The Little Prince July 15, 2015 Paramount Pictures (France)
Lucky Red Distribuzione (Italy)		co-production with Orange Studio, M6 Films, LPPTV and Lucky Red
Mune: Guardian of the Moon October 15, 2015Paramount Picturesco-production with Orange Studio and Kinology
Tall Tales from the Magical Garden of Antoon Krings December 13, 2017Gebeka Filmsunder ON Classics
co-production with Bidibul Productions
Playmobil: The Movie [76] August 7, 2019 (France)
August 9, 2019 (United Kingdom)
December 9, 2019 (United States)		Pathe Distribution (France)
StudioCanal (United Kingdom)		co-production with DMG Entertainment, M6 Films, Morgen Studios and Wild Bunch
Little Vampire October 21, 2020StudioCanalunder Magical Society
co-production with StudioCanal, Autochenille Productions, France 3 Cinema and Panache Productions
Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be October 12, 2022 BAC Films under ON Classics
co-production with Bidibul Productions
Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie July 5, 2023 SND co-production with The Awakening Production, SND, Cross Creek Pictures and Fantawild
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol [77] Coming 2025 Sony Pictures Classics [78] under ON Classics
co-production with What the Prod., Bidibul Productions, Walking the Dog and Align
The BadaliscTBATBAas ON Entertainment [79]
Little Jules Verneas ON Entertainment [79]

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