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### **Semi-divisions**

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Family Communications
Mister Jumbo Corporation
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The Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Company

**The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co** **(processors: The Jumbo & Matriarch Company, Fungus Productions and Iwerks & Co)** is a Singaporean-American documentary, animation, and live-action movie studio that produces documentary, animated and live-action films and television programs. It was owned by the 3 companies, the studio has released all direct-to-video releases alongside all 23 feature animated films, 7 documentary films, and 567 live-action films as of June 2022, including several of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, with *The Great Legendary of Erizos* (1984, 2020 reissue) having been the highest at the time of its release. The latest film was The Story of Wing Fung (2022), which was released on March 11th, 2022; their upcoming slate of films includes A *Kid-E-Cats Sequel Movie:* that which will be released on February 16th, 2024. It produces all films and TV shows while Fungus Productions fiances and distributes them. The studio is responsible for the *Kid-E-Cats* franchise and other franchises.

It was formed when The Jumbo & Matriarch Company and Fungus Productions united together with Iwerks & Co and it was acquired for $93.21 billion. The studio made some traditionally animated films alongside Dreamworks Animation (originally) as well as two stop-motion co-production with Aardman Animations, but now exclusively relies on computer animation. The studio's films are distributed worldwide by *3 Companies Entertainment Incorporated* and are a sister of it.

The studio has headquartered at The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co. complex tower in Nashville, Tennessee, Queenstown, Singapore, Burbank, California, Toronto, Canada and Ellington, Connecticut. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation, documentary, and live-action industry, with its mascots Ms. Jumbo and Ms. Matriarch.

## **History and Formation**

Back in early January 2020, *The Jumbo & Matriarch Company* associates with Iwerks & Co acquiring for $5,000,000,000,000 to join together with Iwerks & Co in North America and Fungus Productions in Singapore. David Fung, Hugh Melman, and Leslie Iwerks decided to form and unite the companies into three together at the acquirement for $999,000 and then, the company has formed.

## **Animation**

### **Process and production:**

Similar to Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Illumination Entertainment, 20th Century Animation, Paramount Animation, Netflix Animation , and Sony Pictures Animation, The studio's original feature animated films were made by Studio Moshi, Studio Metrafilms, Azara Animation, Gaumont Animation, Warner Animation Group, Renegade Animation, and WildBrain Studios, rather outsources the animation production of its films to other studios.

Not unlike Pixar, in its early days of The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co in 2020 depended on a core group of directors, producers, animators, and writers to create its documentary, live-action, and animated films.

The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co's animated films have a budget between $60-80 million. *The Astronomers Dream Part 2 (1984)* is the studio's most expensive film to date, with a $98 million budget.

### **Projects:**

The studio's first feature animated film was *The Child Worker*, released in September 1964, which became The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co's second-highest-grossing animated movie in 1966 and spawned five direct-to-video sequels. Its second feature film, *The Cold Freeze* was released in 1968, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and won the Oscar awards. The third movie, *Primal*, was released in June 1969 and was nominated for a first Annie Awards, including the fourth. *The Astronomers Dream* (1971) was the studio's first-ever animated film to use 2D computer animation after *The Apteryx and the Easter Bunny* (1970), it was released in theaters in March 1971 by *Fungus Productions (formerly: Fungus Film Productions of Singapore and America)*. In February 2022, Universal Pictures along with Illumination Entertainment, Studio Metrafilms, and The Jumbo & Matriarch Company with Fungus Productions released The Kid-E-Cats Movie (2022), which grossed over $350 million worldwide and was based on the Russian TV series. SPA has since signed Viktor Ivanov and Levan Gabriadze to a very and very long-term deal with the studio to develop and direct original films.

## **Partnerships**

The studio has an ongoing partnership with AMD and it signed a full deal to provide Opteron processors to the studio, and it exclusively uses AMD workstations and servers also, The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co has another partnership with NetApp to supply cloud-based storage that allows the company to complete its animated films.

## **Filmography**

Main article: List of The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co production films
For more animation, documentary, and live-action films, here's the main article.

## **Legacy**

The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co. is the second-largest entertainment company just like The Walt Disney Company and is considered to be a pioneer in the animation, documentary, and live-action industry, having produced all 23 feature animated films, 7 documentary films, and 567 live-action films. Early on, the company established itself as a head in the industry, with the creation of Mrs. Jumbo and Mrs. Matriarch by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and the beginning of live-action, animated, and documentary films. Since 2020, The company has been formed by uniting into three companies together in America and Singapore by the members from Iwerks & Co., The Jumbo & Matriarch Company and Fungus Productions.

## **Accolades**

*Main article: List of The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co. awards and nominations*.

## **Company units**

*To see the company units for The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co, go to the article: List of the company units and assets owned for The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co*.

## **Revenues**

Annual revenues of The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co. (in millions USD).

## **Operation income**

The annual operation income of The Jumbo & Matriarch Company/Fungus Productions/Iwerks & Co. (in millions USD).

Greenify at TJ&MC/FP/I&C
 2020

## **See also**

* The Jumbo & Matriarch Company
* Fungus Productions
* Iwerks & Co
* List of unproduced The Jumbo & Matriarch Company projects
* List of unproduced Fungus Productions projects
* List of unproduced Iwerks & Co projects
* List of unfinished documentary films from Iwerks & Co
* List of unproduced The Jumbo & Matriarch Company animated projects
* List of Fungus Productions theatrical animated feature films
* List of The Jumbo & Matriarch Company theatrical animated feature films
* List of animated feature films of the 1910s
* List of animated feature films of the 1920s
* List of animated feature films of the 1930s
* List of animated feature films of the 1940s
* List of animated feature films of the 1950s
* List of animated feature films of the 1960s
* List of animated feature films of the 1970s
* List of animated feature films of the 1980s
* List of animated feature films of the 1990s
* List of animated feature films of the 2000s
* List of animated feature films of the 2010s
* List of animated feature films of the 2020s