Happy Family Productions

### Fate

Library Acquired by Dreamworks Classics, (Except the Hanna-Barbera projects which where owned by Warner Bros Television)

### Area Served

USA
 UK
 Canada
 France
 Germany
 Belguim
 Australia

### Parent

NBCUniversal Television Distribution (Worldwide)
 ICONIX Entertainment (South Korea)

**Happy Family Productions** (formerly known as **Hanna-Barbera-Brown Productions**) was a Los Angeles, California–based American entertainment production company that specialized in animation with another branch in Seoul, South Korea. This company was founded in 1981 as a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera

## History

When Hanna-Barbera owned the rights to Happy Family franchise in 1981, Hanna-Barbera opened a subsidiary "Hanna-Barbera-Brown Productions" to make TV Specials, and One TV Series for NBC, In 1984, Hanna Barbera and TF1 signed a deal to make a Happy Family TV Series, During production, Marc Brown decided that it will enter syndication in 1986,

In 1988, after the Happy Family TV Series ended, Hanna-Barbera broke the deal with Marc Brown and causing the studio to shut down,

In August 1988, Marc Brown revived the company with Film Roman and CiNAR, to make a feature film and a TV Series and Specials,

In October 1988, Marc Brown signed a deal with Nickelodeon and Paramount to make a feature film,

In 1989, Micheline Charest and Ronald A. Weinberg signed a deal wih Film Roman and Hahn Film AG to make a Happy Family TV Series

When the cartoon show was in development, Marc Brown vetoed any extreme changes made to the setting and character designs of Happy Family. He did not want the later 18 episodes to be set in the 1950's, forbidding activities like Poverty. A notable example of a design he vetoed was Jeung Choi and his family in rags. As Marc Brown could not understand Korean, Seo-Young-Hoon served as his translator for the initial meetings between him and the studio. During said meetings, Marc Brown was told about basic changes that needed to be made for an American audience, such as toned down violence (with expections in a few episodes) and the altering of concepts from the books that could be interpreted as having racial connotations or a possible reference to drugs.

In April 1990, Haim Saban, signed a deal to air Happy Family on Fox Kids

In August 1990, CiNAR and Film Roman hired various animation companies, Fil-Cartoons (Philippines) AKOM and Big Star (South Korea), Mr Big Cartoons, (Australia)

In 2004 after the CINAR scandal Entertainment Rights acquired the company, however, The Hanna-Barbera works were owned by Warner Bros Television

In 2006, The company signed a deal with Roi Visual and ICONIX

In 2012, Dreamworks acquired the studio from Cookie Jar,

In 2017, after Season 5 of the 2006 series ended in 2016, the company and ICONIX fired Studio Moggozi for poor animation

In 2018, The company signed a deal with Xilam to make a feature film and a TV Series

## Logo

The company doesn't have a logo until 1990 when the logo was animated by Bill Melendez Productions

## Filmography

### As a Hanna-Barbera company

* Jeung Choi's Big Adventure (1981)
* Jeung Choi's Easter (1983)
* Happy Family (1985-1988)

### As a CINAR company

* The Happy Family (1988)
* Happy Family (1989)
* Happy Family (1992-2003) (co-produced with Film Roman, KBS (Seasons 1-3) MBC (Seasons 4 - 6) ITV)
* A Happy Family Thanksgiving (1993) (co-produced with A.Film and Film Roman)
* Otto In Africa (1995) (co-production with Film Roman and A.Film APS)
* A Happy Family Easter (1995) (co-produced with Film Roman)
* The DinosaurZ (1996-2003) (Co-produced with Neptuno Films)
* Jeung Choi and the Long Lost Brother (1998) (co-produced with Film Roman Siriol Productions and HTV Cymru Wales)
* The DinosaurZ Movie (1999) (Co-produced with Neptuno Films and A.Film APS)
* A Happy Family Christmas (1999) (co-production for Film Roman and NBC)
* Otto and the Sword in a Stone (2000) (co-produced with Film Roman and Hahn Film)
* Happy Family:The Secret Of Jeju Island (2003) (co-production with Film Roman and A.Film)
* The DinosaurZ Movie 2: It's The End of The World As We Knew It (2003) (with Neptuno Films)
* Happy Family:The Swamp Monster (2004) (final co-production with Film Roman before being renamed to Cookie Jar)

### As a Classic Media/Dreamworks Classics company

* Happy Family:Jeung Choi and the Invasion of the Aliens (2005) (First production without CiNAR)
* Happy Family (2006-2022) (With Roi Visual, ICONIX, Studio GALE)
* Otto in Paris (2015-2020) (with Cube Creative, Studio GALE and Studio Moggozi (Seasons 1 and 2 only)
* Happy Family: The Movie (2016 film) (with Dreamworks Animation and ICONIX)
* Happy Family (2018 TV Series) (with Atoonz)