Fazbear Entertainment

Fazbear Entertainment's logo used from 2000 until 2020.

***Fazbear Entertainment*** (traded as ***Fazbear Entertainment Inc.***) is a Beverly Hills, California-based intellectual property, CGI film and animated film production company best known for creating and producing the *Five Nights at Freddy's* franchise, which officially began with the theatrical computer-animated film under the same name in 2004.

## History

Fazbear Entertainment was first created by computer animation filmmakers Andrew Fazbear and John Fazbear on December 22, 1995 to create a new intellectual property titled *Five Nights at Freddy's*. At the time, Fazbear Entertainment started working on CGI animation from 1996 to 1997.

### 2004: Launch of *Five Nights at Freddy's*

On September 11, 1998, Fazbear Entertainment started working on the idea of ​​two upcoming projects under the co-directors of Andrew Fazbear and John. Fazbear. One of them is a bug-centric movie titled "Bugs," while the other is a new short film animated by CGI. Andrew Fazbear passed away in early 1999 while John Fazbear passed away in late 1999. Andrew Bendy and John Zord joined Fazbear Entertainment replacing Andrew Fazbear and John Fazbear as exit chairmen of the film, while Ajdeli Beris joined the company. *Bugs* was canceled in the fall of 1999 before John Fazbear died, and the three went on to work on a CGI animated film, which will lead them to come up with an idea about the cruelest anthropomorphic animals. and the most famous chasing animatronics ever which includes Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy, first imagined and concerned with Bendy, Zord and Beris, alongside the writer Janice Wallian. Together, the four began working on a new CGI animated short named *Spikes*, in collaboration with Scott Cawthon, released in late 1999. The short film made over $ 837 million, and received Academy Award for Best Animated Short. Fazbear Entertainment is judged on the success of the short film, and together Bendy, Zord, Beris and Wallian began to create Fazbear Entertainment's very first full-fledged CGI animated film that would focus solely on Freddy , Bonnie, Chica and Foxy. Zord states that the film would be about "*a group of security guards working together to fight Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy to destroy Freddy Fazbear's Pizza for good*" as an action-packed party tone similar to the 1994 film *Speed* and the 1997 film *Speed ​​2: Cruise Control*.

Zord believed that action-packed movies could be more often to make Fazbear Entertainment try to develop movies that helped audiences witness a freeze. Fazbear Entertainment has started work on *Five Nights at Freddy's*, a new theatrical CGI animated film in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures in early September 2001, alongside over 180 employees around, while forming its new animation division Fazbear Studios, with Barley and Zord co-directing and co-producing the screenplay written by Janice Willian. Barley takes care of Freddy's voice while Zord takes care of Bonnie's voice. Willian stepped up to voice Chica, and meanwhile the former Cartoonverse Animation Studios Exit Manager Dave Roberts was met by Zord, as Roberts states to become the Exit Manager of Fazbear Entertainment and intends to voice Foxy.

As the film began production, Barley and Zord claimed that they have better to have great things about making a film, and claiming that it was going to be the bestest for all action stories among there. Fazbear Entertainment needed animation when it hasn't, so Barley and Zord states that they had well-known from having Fazbear Studios doing animation of this film, when they to Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic. formed Fazbear Entertainment's new interactive business unit, named Fazbear Entertainment, to partner with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to link more of developing the film's video game tie-in only for the sixth generation gaming platforms (Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube and Game Boy Advance). Fazbear Entertainment has also entered into an agreement with Simon & Schuster to create the prequel and sequel book series, while partnering with IDW Publishing to create books based on movies.

In early 2002, Fazbear Entertainment announced that it would be producing the film's interstitial shorts (although not focusing on a plot of the film) ahead of the film, with ambush entertainment stories and chapters being made in collaboration with Threshold Entertainment.

*Five Nights at Freddy's* was released in theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 25, 2004 and grossed $80 million when released in over 6,234 theaters in the United States and Canada at the box office, making it one of the best and most popular computer-animated films ever beating out *A Bug's Life*, *Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius* and *Shrek*.

### 2005-2013: Continuous works

In early 2005, Bendy is very happy to have been interesting with Fazbear Entertainment for the creation of the next CGI animated film and the new CGI animated sequel after *Five Nights at Freddy's*, as well as the creation of new additional holding copyright productions. Fazbear Entertainment has become the # 1 most powerful entertainment creator and owner of the *Five Nights at Freddy's* franchise. Roberts says production on the sequel began in February, with Matthew O'Callaghan set to helm the sequel titled *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*.

While visiting the Six Flags theme parks, O'Callaghan says the sequel will incorporate elements from all Six Flags attractions, while DreamWorks Animation's *The Road to El Dorado* producers Bonne Radford and Brook Benton ask Zord to share the sequel's exit roles. William says he is well known to agree. In September 2005, Fazbear Entertainment began adapting the Interstitial Shorts one into a new direct-to-video release titled *Five Nights at Freddy's: Treasure Search*, which was officially released on December 26, 2006, with Bendy directing and Zord co-directing.

The company entered the television industry and made the 78-episode animated comedy-drama television adaptation of the first film under the same name, which aired on CBS (via Play Date TV) below between 2006 and 2009 to beat *Dark Knights*. The following year, Fazbear Entertainment theatrically released its second theatrical film titled *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures, on August 24, 2007, while video game tie-in was followed and released by Activision four weeks before the sequel's theatrical release for Game Boy Advance, GameCube  , Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360. The success of *Five Nights at Freddy's 2* led Fazbear Entertainment to transform the property into two spin-offs, both *FNAF World* and the new CGI-animated comedy web series titled *Freddy Fazbear and Friends*, which launched on September 10, 2008.

Fazbear Entertainment and Electronic Arts entered a partnership for a massively multiplayer online game *Animatronic World*, released on May 10, 2009. Fazbear Entertainment finally released its last two motion pictures *Five Nights at Freddy's 3* (alongside the video game released by 2K Games) on August 27, 2010 and *Five Nights at Freddy's 4* (the video game tie-in was supposed to be released four days ago before the film's release but was later cancelled) on August 23, 2013. As of December 27, 2012, Fazbear Entertainment has around over 168 employees which were laid off among right before the company's dormancy.

In September 2013, Scott Cawthon announced that it had acquired the rights to *Five Nights at Freddy's* property for the creation of a video game reboots, while turning ownership of the "comedy-horror genre" into a "horror" genre, although Bendy has done what he was ambushing. Cawthon states: *I was really outsourcing the purchase of a property, but he shows me what he's doing new for the property, and most importantly, even when it makes me amazing to have* Five Nights at Freddy's *property with me, then I'm going to be known for making creative games.* All of the staff at Bendy, Zord, Roberts, Willian and Fazbear Entertainment have gone to work on a new CGI animated film from Rockville Worldwide Studios, *Garbage Trek: Final Thoughts*, released on March 4, 2016, taking over the official release date of Walt Disney Animation Studios film *Zootopia*, which, according to Sandy DeCrescent, now focuses on only one fox, two wolves, three pigs, and over 10,000 bunnies and would now be focused about a new universe. Fazbear Entertainment was acquired by Simon & Schuster

## Productions

### Television series (via Fazbear Entertainment)

 2008-2013 | *Freddy Fazbear and Friends* | *internet* | 96

## See also

* *Five Nights at Freddy's*
* Mondo Media
* Backyardigans Agencies
* Rockville Worldwide Studios
* The Onward Company