Morlus Animation

Morlus Animation, LLC (simply known as Morlus) is an American animation studio headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Steven A. Morlus and Rodney Ousley on November 3, 1989, the studio has been owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment, a division of AT&T through its wholly owned subsidiary WarnerMedia, since 2010. Morlus creates animated feature films, short films, and television series, and is best known for the franchises Beastz, Tiny Warriors and Phoenix. Although the studio also made traditionally animated films in the past, all of their films now use computer animation.

The studio has also produced several short films. On March 8, 2011, Time Warner Inc. (now known as WarnerMedia) acquired Morlus Animation for $3.2 billion, making it a division of Warner Bros. Animation as an acquisition for the animation studio.

Films produced by Morlus Animation were formerly distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures, from 1993 to 1998, Sony Pictures Releasing through Columbia Pictures from 1999 to 2005, and Warner Bros. Pictures then began distributing subsequent Morlus Animation films. Warner Bros. also now owns the rights to Morlus' previous films.

Founding (1989–1992)
Morlus Animation was founded by Steven A. Morlus in 1989 as Steven A. Morlus Productions.In 1992, Steven A. Morlus Productions was renamed as Morlus Animation.

Morlus had produced a Saturday morning animated television series Zooge Toons, which ran on the Fox Network as part of its Fox Kids block from 1990 to 1995 and then on Nickelodeon from 1995 to 1999. Created by Rodney Ousley, the series is a variety show, with short skits featuring a large cast of cartoon characters. Phil the Fennec Fox has been Morlus's mascot since the character's introduction in 1990.

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Partnership with Paramount Pictures (1993–1998)
In June 1993, Morlus Animation and Paramount Pictures announced that their companies were teaming up to co-finance and distribute The Zooge Toons Movie, Morlus's first feature film which is based on their television series Zooge Toons, which had already been in pre-production for a year.

On July 15, 1995, The Zooge Toons Movie was released and received mixed reviews. The film was a slight box office disappointment to Paramount, by only grossing $117.5 million on a $30 million budget. Despite this, Paramount still allowed Morlus Animation to make animated features for them.

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Warner Bros. era (2010-present)
On September 25, 2009, it was announced that Time Warner Inc. agreed to acquire Morlus Animation. for $3.2 billion in cash and stock; the acquisition was completed six months later on March 8, 2010. Thus meaning that Morlus has become a division of Warner Bros. Animation.

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