Foodfight!
Director/Producer/Writer: Larry Kasanoff is also CEO of Threshold Animation Studios. He is the Producer of two, number one Mortal Kombat feature films, and a Mortal Kombat television series, an animated series, platinum selling soundtracks, home video, CD-ROMs and a live show at Radio City Music Hall. He was Executive Producer of the box-office smash film True Lies, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was directed by James Cameron.
Previously, as president and co-founder of Lightstorm Entertainment, he supervised production, marketing, publicity and merchandising for the four time Academy Award winning hit Terminator Two: Judgment Day. For T2, he produced that year’s top video on MTV, "You Could Be Mine" with Gun's 'N Roses. Prior to the formation of Lightstorm, Mr. Kasanoff served as head of production and acquisitions for Vestron, Inc, producers of Dirty Dancing. In that capacity, he made, financed or co-financed over 200 films, including the Academy Award Best Picture, Platoon. Mr. Kasanoff holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA from Cornell University.
Producer/Writer: Joshua Wexler is co-founder and President of Threshold Animation Studios, where he oversees all of the creative and business development of the company, focusing on the details of licensing, property acquisition, and brand extensions. His prior accomplishments include writing and producing several projects under the Mortal Kombat franchise. Mr. Wexler pioneered the Company's relationship with IBM, and has negotiated all of deals with consumer packaged good firms, licensing agreements and co-marketing agreements for Foodfight! Wexler also negotiated and acquired the rights to the LEGO brands as well as the slate financing transaction for a series of 12 direct-to-DVD animated movies and recently completed writing the story for the soon to be produced LEGO Movie. Mr. Wexler holds a B.A. degree in Film and Children's Television from New York University.
Executive Producer: Jimmy Ienner is one of the most respected and successful film and music impressarios in the world, with credits from Dirty Dancing (film, music, live stage) to Kiss to Pink Floyd. Among many other accolades, he has 85 gold and platinum albums as Producer or Executive Producer.
Technology Innovations Provided by the IBM Corporation: Threshold’s unique technology alliance with the IBM Corporation gives it access to cutting edge R &D and technological innovations for its films.
Writer: Sean Derek is an Emmy award winning animation writer, with credits that include the Spiderman, Batman and Zorro TV series.
Composer: Walter Murphy scores music for the hit TV show, Family Guy.
Digital Production Team. Foodfight!’s team of digital wizards have a collective body of credits that includes Happy Feet, Barnyard, The SpongeBob SuarePants Movie, Jimmy Neutron, Iron Giant and more.
Performance Capture Artists: Most of Foodfight! was animated by directing live action actors to perform as characters in the film, capturing their motion using new technology, and transferring that motion onto the cartoon characters in the film. These performance artists are Broadway stars, Circus clowns, champion martial artists and all around professional goofballs par excellance. Their credits rang from Broadway hits like The Producers, Movin’ Out, Fosse and Hello, Dolly, to films like Batman and Robin and Blade and to other achievements like Championships in the U.S. Karate Open
A Threshold Animation Studios Production: Threshold produces CGI animated feature films for the broad, family market. Threshold has a deal to produce 12 CGI animated films to be distributed by Universal Studios. In addition, Threshold has produced over 100 CGI projects for Disney, Universal, Fox, Sony, Paramount, NBC and more.
