TUBI GREENLIGHTS ANIMATED ADULT COMEDY “BREAKING BEAR”
The Wildly Original series will be produced by Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge and Cartel Entertainment
SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, 2022 – Tubi (www.tubi.tv) announced today that it has greenlit the adult animated series, BREAKING BEAR. Created by Julien Nitzberg (“The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”) and produced by Cartel Entertainment (“Creepshow,” “Twelve Forever” and “Day of the Dead”) and Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Media (“Monsters of California,” “Unidentified”), BREAKING BEAR parodies the tropes of mob dramas, comically combining elements of Yogi Bear with “The Sopranos.”
BREAKING BEAR follows the escapades of three bear brothers who decide they must start selling drugs to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave. The bears soon recruit other forest animals in a plan that will pit them against oil companies, the Russian mafia, the local Hells Angels, and polar bears who hate anything but white.
“When The Cartel launched a series featuring cartoon animals as mobsters, I knew it was an offer I couldn’t refuse,” said Adam Lewinson, chief content officer at Tubi. “This is the perfect project to expand our adult entertainment offering following the stellar success of THE FREAK BROTHERS, establishing Tubi as a destination for adult comedy.”
Tubi continues to expand its strong adult animation collection with both library and original animated content for the platform. In May, three new made-for-Tubi movies from FOX’s Emmy Award-winning animation house Bento Box Entertainment were announced as Tubi Originals, including: PASTACOLYPSE, from the co-creator of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” Matthew Maiellaro; MILLENNIAL HUNTER, by comedian and actor Sam Taggart; and BIG BRUH, from DUNCANVILLE writer, stand-up comedian and co-producer Jerron Horton. Tubi’s adult animation offering also includes library titles such as “Mike Tyson Mysteries,” “The PJs,” “SuperMansion,” “Brickleberry,” “Kevin Smith: Smodimations,” “Alien News Desk,” “Nerdland” and more, plus. in the original series THE FREAK BROTHERS, starring Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Pete Davidson and Tiffany Haddish.
BREAKING BEAR is executive produced by Tom DeLonge (“Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker”), Stan Spry (“Creepshow,” “Day of the Dead”), Jeff Holland (“Creepshow,” “Day of the Dead”), Bradford . Bricken (“Twelve Forever”) and Eric Woods (“Creepshow,” “Harland Manor”). Julien Nitzberg also serves as executive producer and showrunner.
Julien Nitzberg is best known as the producer and director of the documentary “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” (produced by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine). In the theater world, Nitzberg wrote and directed the controversial comedy operetta “The Beastly Bombing or A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed By The Tangles Of True Love,” winner of the LA Weekly Theater Critics Musical of the Year Award, and most recently the acclaimed musical “For the Love of a Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson As Told By His Glove,” set to open in 2023 in Los Angeles with Stacey Sher attached to produce. Nitzberg was a producer and writer for the Cinemax animated series Mike Judge Presents Tales From the Tour Bus. He has also written scripts for HBO, Showtime, Amazon Films, TNT, USA, IFC, Paramount Studios, CBS Studios and NBC.
Tom DeLonge is an award-winning producer, director, author, researcher, multi-platinum recording artist and entrepreneur, originally known for his songwriting and vocals as the frontman of Blink-182. Today, DeLonge devotes his time to his entertainment and media company, To The Stars Media, as well as his band Angels & Airwaves. In his diverse career, DeLonge has written, directed and produced feature films, animated shorts, episodic series and music videos, including the animated short “Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker,” which won Best Animation at the Toronto International Short Film Festival and the feature film “Monsters of California”, which will be released at the end of this year.
Tom DeLonge is repped by APA and Julien Nitzberg is repped by APA, Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Jackoway, Tyerman et al.
About Tubi
Tubi, a division of FOX Entertainment, is an ad-supported video-on-demand service with more than 40,000 movies and TV shows in the United States, including a growing library of Tubi Originals, more than 150 local and live news channels , sports and entertainment. , and over 400 entertainment partners, with content from every major Hollywood studio. Tubi gives movie, TV, news and sports fans an easy way to discover new content completely free.
Tubi is available in the US on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour and connected TV devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TV, LG TV, Sony TV, Samsung Televisions, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X|S, and soon on Hisense TVs worldwide. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at www.tubi.tv.
About Cartel Entertainment
Founded in 2011 by partners Stan Spry, Eric Woods and Jeff Holland, Cartel is a feature film and television production, distribution, financing and management company representing showrunners, show creators, writers, directors, producers and producers in film, television first level and new media. Cartel has also produced over 150 film and television productions since its inception, including the hit series Creepshow for Shudder/AMC, the animated series Twelve Forever for Netflix, and the Syfy series Day of the Dead . Cartel previously produced Ties That Bind for Up TV and A Place in the Sun for Discovery, as well as several recent feature films including Christmas With the Campbells, Monsters of California, Switched for Christmas, Jeepers Creepers 3, Christmas Connection, Love at the Shore, Sun Sand and Romance, Love at First Glance and Wrong Nanny to name a few. In 2013, Cartel purchased and renovated Tamarind Lithography Studios, which is its Los Angeles headquarters, as well as a full-service production and post-production complex. Cartel also has offices in London, England, Las Vegas, USA and Winnipeg, Canada.
About The Stars Media
To The Stars Media, Inc. To The Stars Media (TTSM) is a wholly owned subsidiary of To The Stars Inc. (TTS), a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Diego, California. TTS was founded in 2017 by Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge, former senior CIA officer Jim Semivan and physicist Dr Hal Puthoff. The company strives to be a revolutionary collaboration between academia, industry and pop culture to advance society’s imagination, curiosity and understanding of scientific phenomena and other mysteries of the universe. To The Stars Media creates award-winning content across music, television, film, books and merchandise that draws on the extensive knowledge and experience of its own scientific advisory board drawn from government agencies and prestigious academic institutions. The company gained international recognition when it obtained the first official US government military evidence of an unidentified aerial phenomenon which it published in a cover story with the New York Times in connection with the investigation of its book series, Sekret machines Other To The Stars Media original franchises include “Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker,” winner of IPBA “Best Teen Fiction” and “Best Animated Short” at the Toronto International Short Film Festival, “The Lonely Astronaut on Christmas Eve”, “Cathedrals of”. Glass” and “Monsters of California.” www.ToTheStars.Media
