Social media sensation Doug the Pug is teaming up with Kickstart Leisure and producer Loris Kramer Lunsford (Johnny Take a look at, StarBeam, Interrupting Rooster) to develop a brand new animated comedy collection. With over 19 million followers and over 1 billion video views, Doug the Pug is a two-time Individuals’s Selection Award winner, a New York Instances bestseller, star of a nationwide Tremendous Bowl Business in 2020, and made his massive display doggy debut because the grunts of Monchi in Sony/Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines.
“It has been a dream of ours since day one to create an animated collection across the World of Doug the Pug, and Kickstart is the dream group to do it with,” stated Leslie Mosier and Rob Chianelli, Proud Homeowners and Creators of Doug the Pug. “Collectively we’re thrilled to construct out our mission to unfold positivity, kindness and laughter by way of this present. We’re assured that Doug’s followers on social media shall be thrilled, and new followers will find it irresistible, too.”
Kickstart Leisure is the worldwide animation and live-action manufacturing firm behind the Netflix youngsters’ collection StarBeam, Mattel’s Deepa & Anoop and Amazon’s international success The Boys. The studio has a protracted historical past of adapting international manufacturers into tv and digital content material, and Lunsford has been working as an impartial producer creating and producing tasks for teenagers and household with Cartoon Community, Disney Channel, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Apple and others.
“The massive success of Doug the Pug throughout social media platforms and past is strictly the form of basis Kickstart likes to construct tales round,” government producer Jason Netter, Founder & CEO of Kickstart, stated. “Doug is able to take his mainstream attraction to an excellent broader viewers and your entire Kickstart group is able to develop this beloved character into animated programming.”
Lunsford added, “Once I met Doug and his dad and mom, Leslie and Rob, it was love at first sight, and I knew I wished to be part of his world. I’m so thrilled that they’ve entrusted me and Kickstart to take him and his 19 million social media followers on an animated journey!”
The animated collection may also be government produced by Doug the Pug’s long-time supervisor, Victoria Bachan, Managing Director of Whalar Expertise, the in-house expertise administration division of world creator commerce firm Whalar.
“As Doug’s longtime supervisor, I’ve at all times seen the potential for a profitable model past social media. As we develop the attain of Doug the Pug by way of a story medium, we are going to maintain the center and soul of his character whereas inviting extra individuals to expertise his pleasure,“ stated Bachan.
This animated collection comes off the heels of Doug the Pug’s latest guide, Doug the Pug and the Kindness Crew. Doug’s attain goes far past the web; he’s starred in music movies for Katy Perry, DNCE and Fall Out Boy and has appeared on nationwide TV exhibits similar to Good Morning America, The TODAY Present, The Docs and This Morning, and has been featured on Jimmy Fallon and The View.
Doug the Pug can be behind a 501c3 basis that works to deliver pleasure and wanted assist outdoors of remedy to kids and their households battling most cancers and different life threatening sicknesses.
The animated collection is presently being shopped to companions for distribution.
