Morlus Animation

Morlus Animation, LLC (simply known as Morlus) is an American animation studio headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Steven A. Morlus and Rodney Ousley on November 3, 1989, the studio has been owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment, a division of AT&T through its wholly owned subsidiary WarnerMedia, since 2010. Morlus creates animated feature films, short films, and television series, and is best known for the franchises Beastz, Tiny Warriors and Phoenix. Although the studio also made traditionally animated films in the past, all of their films now use computer animation.

The studio has also produced several short films. On March 8, 2011, Time Warner Inc. (now known as WarnerMedia) acquired Morlus Animation for $3.2 billion, making it a division of Warner Bros. Animation as an acquisition for the animation studio.

In recent years, the animation studio has acquired and created new divisions in an effort to diversify beyond the high-risk movie business.

Films produced by Morlus Animation were formerly distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures, from 1993 to 1998, Sony Pictures Releasing through Columbia Pictures from 1999 to 2005, and Warner Bros. Pictures then began distributing subsequent Morlus Animation films. Warner Bros. also now owns the rights to Morlus' previous films.

Founding (1982–1993)
Morlus Animation was founded by Steven A. Morlus in 1989 as Steven A. Morlus Productions, and originally, was a division of Hanna-Barbera, before it was renamed Gingo in 1988, and separated from the studio. In 1992, Steven A. Morlus Productions was renamed as Morlus Animation.

Morlus had produced a Saturday morning animated television series Zooge Toons, which ran on the Fox Network as part of its Fox Kids block from 1992 to 1994 and then on Nickelodeon from 1994 to 2000. Created by Rodney Ousley, the series is a variety show, with short skits featuring a large cast of cartoon characters.

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Warner Bros. era (2010-present)
On September 25, 2009, it was announced that Time Warner Inc. agreed to acquire Morlus Animation. for $3.2 billion in cash and stock; the acquisition was completed six months later on March 8, 2010. Thus meaning that Morlus has become a division of Warner Bros. Animation.

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