Geo Animation Studios

**Geo Animation Studios, LLC.** (formerly known as **Jakelsm Animation**) is an Irish-American CGI animation studio founded on September 18, 1990 by Jake Sharratt, later the creator of *World of Jake*. It is owned since 1991 by Paramount Pictures and based in New York, USA. The company is known for the well-recognized *Greenuts* series, as well as their contributions to an episode of *The Jan and Jason Show* (Alevy/Film Roman/Fox). The studio's first feature film *Greenuts* was released in 1993, followed by two sequels which included *Greenuts 2: The 2nd Film Begins* (1997) and *Greenuts 3: The 10th Geo Animation Studios Film* (2007). A fourth film, *Greenuts 4: A New Beginning*, is set to be released in 2015. *Greenuts 2* marks the first time that the studio made a sequel. Other work includes *Vegetables* and *Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends* film series.

## History

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### Jakelsm Animation

Before Jake Sharratt, the creator of *World of Jake* started Geo Animation Studios in 1990, Jake Sharratt created a animation studio named **Jakelsm Animation** in 1988 right after Sharratt created Jakelsm Home Entertainment. In 1990, However, it was renamed to Geo Animation Studios.

### Paramount Pictures

By October 1, 1991, a deal was announced positioning Geo as Paramount’s family entertainment arm (later in 1994 Viacom) that would produce one to two films a year starting in 1993. It is co-owned by Paramount who exclusively distributes the films. Geo's first film *Greenuts* was released on November 17, 1993. It has since then been solely focused on animated features.

In 1996, Geo's second film *Under the Blue Sea* was released in theatres November 12, 1996.

In 1997, Geo's third film *Greenuts 2: The 2nd Film Begins* was released in theatres November 29, 1997, it's sequel to *Greenuts*.

### Lix FX

In the summer of 1998, Lix FX became Geo Animation Studios's Vancouver animation studio, Geo Lix FX.

### *Tj's World* reboot

Geo G., the creator of *Geo's World*, said that the company was going to make the reboot of the *Tj's World* film series, titled *Tj's World* (since Paramount owns both Geo and the Tj's World movies), respectively. But TjsWorld2011/Tjdrum2000 said it was actually TjsWorld2011 Pictures who would be doing it. The film was later cancelled in August 2012.

### Upcoming projects

Geo Animation Studios is currently working on *Greenuts 4: A New Beginning* (2015), and more. and has many other projects in development, including *Crash Bandicoot* and *Balloon 2: The Adventures Begin* and a reboot to the Greenuts film series.

On April 14, 2015, Geo Animation Studios had bought DHX Media is the distributor with Paramount Pictures to make feature films based on DHX Media's TV shows.

On June 21, 2015, Geo Animation Studios is decided that Sony Pictures Imageworks will be handle CGI animation, starting with Jenny and Penny's theatrical feature film '**Get Funny!'** which will be released in 2017.

On July 30, 2015, The studio brought the rights of the Freshwater High Cheerleaders from Disney's animated series *Fish Hooks* and added them to the Geo Animation Studios portfolio. It is unknown that they will be featured in an CGI-animated film.

On November 1, 2015, Geo Animation Studios is planning to develop a live-action/CGI animated film featuring Clyde Wilson from *Kick & Gunther: Rainbow Rocks*.

## Filmography

### Feature films

***Released films***

***Upcoming films***

***Films in development***

### Cancelled movies

*For the full list, see List of cancelled Geo Animation Studios projects.*
* *The Simpsons* (Moved to TCF)
* *South Park*
* *BallCone*
* *Dead Lead 2*
* *The Animals*
* *Samurai Jack*
* *The Land of the Earth*
* *Under the Blue Sea 2*
* *Red 2*
* *Dexter's Laboratory*
* *Johnny Test*
* *Ico*

### Television series

CBS Kids (2011-present)

### Contributions

* *The Jan and Jason Show* (1990) – 3D Jan, Jason and objects in the episode *3D Jan and Jason*

## Theme park attractions

While Geo Animation Studios has never had its own theme park, theme parks have made rides based on Geo films and co-productions.

* *Greenuts Land*, a children's area at Paramount Canada's Wonderland (now Canada's Wonderland).
* *Greenuts: The Fun Ride*, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida. Also existed at Universal Studios Hollywood.
* *Under the Blue Sea: Boat Ride*, a water ride at Universal Studios Japan.

## Trivia

* The characters from *Greenuts* eventually turn out being their company's mascots.
* The name for the company came from the show *Geo's World*.

## See also

* Geo Animation Studios Production Logo
* Geo Animation Studios Wiki
* Paramount Pictures
* Viacom
* Paramount Animation
* Jake Sharratt
* List of Geo Animation Studios films
* List of Geo Animation Studios short films
* Easter egg
* List of cancelled Geo Animation Studios projects

## External links

* Official website
* Geo Animation Studios at World Of Jake Wiki

## References

1. ↑ Fleming, Mike (2011-05-15). "Paramount Marketing Head Eddie Egan Moving To Top Geo Post". Deadline.com.
2. ↑ "Sharratt, Paramount team on deals - Entertainment News, Exclusives, Media"
3. ↑ Fleming, Mike (November 14, 1998). "Paramount Pictures Buys British Columbia Animation Unit For Jake Sharratt’s Geo".
4. ↑ *Juridic informations about Geo Lix FX*
5. ↑ Keslassy, Elsa (December 12, 1998). "Paramount benefit in Lix FX accord".
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fleming, Mike (January 9, 2012). "Paramount, Geo, And Escape Artists To Film Balloon Story".
7. ↑ Fleming, Mike (January 9, 2015). "Universal, Geo, And Nintendo To Make CGI Pokemon Movie".
8. ↑ Kit, Borys (February 5, 2012). "Superheros heads to the big screen by Jake Sharratt's Geo".
9. ↑ Kit, Borys (May 17, 2012). "Geo and Paramount Adapting Sequel to 'A Snake's Creek' (Exclusive)".
10. ↑ Kroll, Justin (August 22, 2012). "Jake Sharratt's Geo buys 'Enchanted' helmer's pitch".
11. ↑ Geo G. (October 9, 2012). "Jake Sharratt's Geo develops 'Pre-X'
12. ↑ Kit, Borys (November 28, 2012). "Furby Toy hits to the big screen"
13. ↑ Kroll, Justin (June 5, 2013). "Geo Animation Buys an Abdul Gasazi Feature Film"
14. ↑ Fleming, Mike (July 1, 2013). "Geo Animation Studios Makes Panty & Stocking; Based on The Japanese Manga"
15. ↑ Graser, Marc (January 29, 2012). "Nintendo sets up 'Mother' at Paramount".
16. ↑ Mike Fleming (November 10, 2013). "Geo, P to acquire 'Zoop' video game".
17. ↑ Kroll, Justin (July 12, 2014). "Paramount and Geo Develops "IWBTG" film".
18. ↑ Graser, Marc (January 22, 2015). "Geo Animation purchases the film rights to Lalaloopsy dolls".
19. ↑ Mike Fleming (January 30, 2015). "Walter Williams' clay figure to hit the big screen for the first time".
20. ↑ Kit, Borys (Feburary 19, 2015). "Geo Animation buys an feature film based on the Angela Anaconda TV series".
21. ↑ Mike Fleming (Feburary 25, 2015). "Geo Animation purchases a film based on object show by Adam Katz, Inanimate Insanity".
22. ↑ Kroll, Justin (March 1, 2015). "Geo Animation makes a movie based on the Lalaloopsy's Lalaloopsy Girls spin-off line".
23. ↑ Sliverman, David (March 16, 2004). "The Simpsons turns into CGI and hits to the big screen by Paramount and Geo".
24. ↑ Kenny, Tom (November 5, 2007). "The Simpsons Movie Moved to Fox".
25. ↑ Geo G. (May 10, 2010) "South Park is canceled and moved to CBS Films".
26. ↑ Fleming, Mike (June 6, 2007) "Jake Sharratt to Appear in the BallCone Spin-Off".
27. ↑ Geo G. (November 3, 2011) "Sharratt Talks Greenuts 4, Dead Lead 2".
28. ↑ Kenny, Tom (March 14, 1996) "Sharratt and Jones Talks about The Animals".
29. ↑ Fleming, Mike (March 25, 2012). "Cartoon Network's 'Samurai Jack' to hit the big screen".
30. ↑ Fleming, Mike (June 19, 2012). "Jake Sharratt's Geo to drive 'Dexter's Laboratory'".
31. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Manga`
32. ↑ Jake Sharrat (November 10, 1997). "New Greenuts Short in Front of Titanic".
33. ↑ Geo G. (August 3, 2012). "EXCLUSIVE: Jake Sharratt's Geo's Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends releases on DVD and Blu-ray on November of 2013".