Cartoon Network Studios (Johnsonverse)

Cartoon Network Studios is an American animation studio owned by the Hanna-Barbera division of Johnson Cartoon Studios, a subsidiary of Johnson Industries. The studio is the production arm of Cartoon Network, and started operating on October 21, 1994.
Located in Burbank, California, the studio primarily produces and develops animated programs and shorts for Cartoon Network. In the 2010s and beyond, their programs began to expand into their sister companies Adult Swim and Netflix. So far, the company has produced TBA theatrically released films, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, The Adventure Time Movie, The Regular Show Movie, The Steven Universe Movie, and The Teen Titans Movie, all distributed by Johnson Films.
The actual animation service for their productions is done overseas, mainly in Korea at Digital eMation, Saerom Animation, Rough Draft Korea, and Sunmin Image Pictures, with pre-production and post-production being United States-based.
== History ==
=== 1990s to 2000s ===
Cartoon Network Studios originated as a division of Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. that focused on producing original programming for Cartoon Network, including What a Cartoon!, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and The Powerpuff Girls.
In 2000, Cartoon Network Studios transferred its production offices to a new facility located at 300 N 3rd St. in Burbank, California, which was the location of a former Pacific Bell telephone exchange. Former DiC and Nickelodeon employees Brian A. Miller and Jennifer Pelphrey have managed the company since it began production in the same year. The current headquarters of the animation studio was christened on May 22, 2000, by veteran animator and animation advisor Joseph Barbera with a bottle of champagne.
In 2002, the studio produced two television pilots for Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim: Welcome to Eltingville and The Groovenians. Neither of them were picked as full series. Also, the studio released this year its first theatrical film: The Powerpuff Girls Movie, based on The Powerpuff Girls, which received positive reviews from critics but performed poorly at the box office. In 2006, Cartoon Network Studios collaborated with sister studio Williams Street for the first time for Korgoth of Barbaria, a television pilot made for Adult Swim, which was also not green-lit as a series.
=== 2010s ===
==== Exploring animation ====
In 2010, Adventure Time premiered on Cartoon Network. It began life as a short featured on Nicktoons' Random! Cartoons that was ultimately not green-lit as a series by that channel. Cartoon Network picked it up later. The show ran until 2018 with 10 seasons and 283 episodes. A film was announced in 2015 and released in 2018 as Adventure Time: The Movie. In 2019, a continuation, titled Adventure Time: Distant Lands, was announced for Netflix with a release in 2020. Also this year, The Cartoonstitute, an incubator series similar to What a Cartoon!, debuted on Cartoon Network Video. The pilots of Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa were presented here among with other shorts, with the Uncle Grandpa pilot also serving as a basis for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, which preceded the actual series.
=== 2020s ===
== Filmography ==
=== TV series ===
=== Former/current shorts ===
=== Successful pilots ===
=== Failed pilots ===
=== Other shorts ===
=== Original films, specials and miniseries ===
=== Theatrical films ===
== See also ==
* List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network (Johnsonverse)
* List of animation studios owned by Johnson Industries (Johnsonverse)
** Hanna-Barbera - the owner of Cartoon Network Studios
** Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe - European sister studio of Cartoon Network Studios owned by Johnson Television UK
** Johnson Cartoon Studios - sister studio of Cartoon Network Studios
** Williams Street - sister studio of Cartoon Network Studios
** MTV Animation - the animation division of MTV Entertainment Studios
**Fox Television Animation - the television animation studio of Fox Entertainment Group and division of 20th Century Fox Television
* List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company (Johnsonverse)
** Walt Disney Television Animation - the animation division of Disney Branded Television
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