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26-632: Founded by veteran animator and director Phil Roman on October 26, 1984, it is best known for providing animation for the Garfield primetime specials , based on Jim Davis' comic strip of the same name . The studio also produced the animated series The Simpsons , The Critic , King of the Hill , Family Guy , Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! , The Goode Family , and Dan Vs. . Phil Roman , veteran alumnus of MGM Animation/Visual Arts and Bill Melendez Productions , founded Film Roman on October 26, 1984 as

52-481: A made-for-TV movie entitled The Burning Bed , which caused controversy but also received eleven Emmy nominations for Farrah Fawcett 's depiction of a battered wife. Tisch launched his own production company in 1986, called the Steve Tisch Company, which has since specialized in small screen films. The company originally had a two-picture agreement with New World Pictures , with Soul Man being

78-473: A Best Motion Picture Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Forrest Gump , which was nominated for 13 Academy Awards and won six, and remains one of the highest domestic box office grossing films in history. He is also the only person ever with a Golden Globe , an Academy Award , a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and a Super Bowl Ring . In 1999, he developed and produced an aborted television pilot Mission Extreme , for Film Roman and Max Degree TV, but it

104-563: A means to continue the production of the Garfield television specials , since Melendez's own studio was unable to work on both the Peanuts and Garfield specials. Peanuts executive producers Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez and their aforementioned studio had produced the first two Garfield specials, but due to both Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz ' and Garfield creator Jim Davis ' concerns about conflicting interests in allocating production priority at Melendez's boutique studio,

130-642: A scholarship to the Hollywood Art Center School. Roman begin his career in 1955 as an assistant animator for the Disney animated classic Sleeping Beauty . Early in his career, Roman was an animator for Chuck Jones 's independent studios, Sib Tower 12 Productions and later Chuck Jones Productions. He was a lead animator for How the Grinch Stole Christmas! , and later provided an audio commentary with June Foray on

156-617: Is an American film producer and businessman. He is the chairman, co-owner and executive vice president of the New York Giants , the NFL team co-owned by his family, as well as a film and television producer. He is the son of former Giants co-owner Preston Robert Tisch . Tisch was born in Lakewood Township, New Jersey , the son of Joan (née Hyman) and Preston Robert Tisch , a film and television executive who also served as

182-536: The Peanuts and Garfield animated specials. He is the founder of the animation studios Film Roman and Phil Roman Entertainment . Philip Roman was born on December 21, 1930, in Fresno, California . His parents were Mexican migrant farm workers . He spoke only Spanish until kindergarten. After graduating from San Joaquin Memorial High School , he moved to Hollywood, California and earned

208-634: The Garfield prime time special series, later ultimately titled Garfield and Friends , which took three years for Roman to decide developing and producing the program before it eventually aired on the network's Saturday morning time slot, premiering on September 17, 1988. The aforementioned show was Film Roman's first regular series. In 1986, in an effort to expand and diversify the studio, Roman hired Marvel Productions VP of Business Affairs and his own personal attorney, Michael Wahl, as President and Bill Schultz , Marvel's Director of Development, to join in

234-590: The United States Postmaster General . He has two siblings, Jonathan Tisch and Laurie Tisch . His family is Jewish . He attended Tufts University , during which he began his filmmaking career. During his youth, Tisch created a number of small films with backing by Columbia Pictures . In 1976, he left Columbia and created his first feature film, Outlaw Blues . He followed this up in 1983 with Risky Business , which gave Tom Cruise his first lead role. In 1984, Tisch produced

260-529: The White House to honor the Giants' Super Bowl victory. Tisch also made an appearance on the reality show Shark Tank in season 5. Following the 2021 season, when the Giants finished 4-13, Tisch "pushed" John Mara to fire head coach Joe Judge , after John Mara was reportedly willing to give Judge a third year. Tisch has been married twice. He had two children with his first wife, Patsy A. Tisch;

286-492: The DVD release of the film. In the 1970s, Roman directed several of the Peanuts animated specials produced at Bill Melendez ' studio. In 1984, Roman founded his own animation studio, Film Roman , which produced the animation for the Garfield television specials . He directed all the twelve Garfield specials broadcast from 1982 to 1991. He also appeared in the documentary special Happy Birthday, Garfield , which went behind

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312-461: The Deep from SFX artist Steve Wang , and a new Wes Archer cartoon Victor , but it never got off the ground. In April 2000, The Harvey Entertainment Company became Film Roman's international sales representative and distributor in an effort for the former to branch out of its existing properties. Within the same year, India-based software firm Pentamedia Graphics attempted to acquire 51% stake in

338-541: The IDT Entertainment division, which includes Film Roman, to Liberty Media for $ 186 million, the sale was completed on August 31, 2006, which resulted in IDT Entertainment becoming part of Starz Entertainment Group and renamed as Starz Media. In 2015, Film Roman was acquired from its parent company Starz Distribution by Waterman Entertainment , the production company of executive producer Steve Waterman . As such, it now does business with Starz, which owns

364-639: The P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment. Tisch became chairman and Executive Vice President of the New York Giants American football team in 2005. He accepted the Vince Lombardi Trophy twice, when the Giants won Super Bowl XLII and again when they won Super Bowl XLVI . On April 30, 2008, Tisch, along with the rest of the Giants team and administration, received an invitation from President George W. Bush to

390-600: The animated special Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer . Roman has served as the production supervisor and executive producer in the Mexican-American animated film El Americano: The Movie , which was released in 2016. Following Film Roman's purchase by Waterman Entertainment, Roman returned to the company he founded as chairman emeritus . In 2016, Roman was awarded the Inkpot Award . Steve Tisch Steven Elliot Tisch (born February 14, 1949)

416-454: The company as the fledgling studio's VP of Production and Development. Garfield and Friends was expanded to an hour on CBS' number one rated Saturday Morning block and the studio grew to increase its capacity. In 1988, the new management team developed, sold and produced a new series, Bobby's World , to the brand new Fox Kids Network , headed up by former Marvel Productions president Margaret Loesch . In 1992 to 2016, Film Roman took over

442-488: The company to form Phil Roman Entertainment , the studio that produced Christmas television specials including Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (2000), but he remained a shareholder of the company and then subsequently rejoined in 2001 as a member of the company's board of directors At the same time, it attempted to get into the syndication market with the launch of Max Degree TV, which would have consisted of three shows, Mission Extreme from Steve Tisch , Skins from

468-515: The company's catalogue. On November 22, 2016, the company formed a joint venture based in Tijuana , called Film Roman Baja J.V. (also known as Film Roman Baja Productions), with Boxel Studios, a Baja California-based animation facility. The original studio was located on Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake, California , where Roman was also joined by Melendez producer Lee Mendelson . Years later,

494-504: The fall of 2005, and The Pursuit of Happyness , starring Will Smith, was released by Columbia Pictures in December 2006. Other projects include Seven Pounds starring Will Smith, Knowing , starring Nicolas Cage and The Taking of Pelham 123 starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta . The company's TV projects include Perpetual Grace, LTD. for Epix and Servant starring Nell Tiger Free for Apple TV+. In 2007, Tisch received

520-563: The first film of a proposed two-picture deal. In 1987, the company set up multiple projects at Warner Bros., which included the feature rights to the Mr. Magoo character (the project was eventually made by Disney in 1997 as a live-action film ), as well as three original projects that the company, by way of Steve Tisch Productions had a contract at the studio. However, he also produced several critically acclaimed films including Forrest Gump , American History X , and Snatch . Tisch received

546-518: The production had to be moved. While he was leaving him and Melendez for his already-established studio, Roman was offered the opportunity to produce the next Garfield prime time special, Garfield in the Rough (1984), for CBS by Mendelson, which he accepted and went on to produce and direct all by himself, winning an Emmy in the process. In 1985, CBS' head of children's programming Judy Price had commissioned an animated television series based on

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572-488: The scenes of both the comic strip and the animated versions of Garfield . In 1992, Roman became animation executive producer for The Simpsons , which his company started working on beginning with season four , taking over from Klasky Csupo , who animated the first three seasons. In the same year, he directed Tom and Jerry: The Movie , his studio's first theatrical feature. In 1999, Roman sold his studio and later formed Phil Roman Entertainment . The company produced

598-450: The source production of 20th Century Fox 's The Simpsons from Klasky-Csupo who had produced the one-minute teaser cartoon shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show as well as the animation for the first three seasons and the first two episodes of the fourth season (in total 61 episodes). The studio went on to grow and produce many popular animated series now seen all around the world. In 1999, Film Roman's founder Phil Roman left and sold

624-623: The studio for $ 15 million, but the deal later terminated in 2001. In May 2003, the Digital Production Solutions division of IDT Corporation (formed in 2002) announced that it would acquire a 51% controlling interest and stake in Film Roman, which would temporarily renamed as DPS Film Roman, and the studio later became part of the newly-formed IDT Entertainment division in November that year. In May 2006, IDT sold

650-584: The studio moved to a new location on Chandler Blvd. in Studio City , before settling into another location at Starz Plaza on Hollywood Way in Burbank , which it shared with the former Hub Network and Hasbro Studios/Allspark , and finally settling into its present location in Woodland Hills . Phil Roman Philip Roman (born December 21, 1930) is an American animator and the director of

676-480: Was cancelled due to lack of international backers. He is currently a partner in Escape Artists, an independently financed film production company based at Sony Pictures Entertainment that is the result of a merger between his Steve Tisch Company and fellow partners Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal's production company, Black & Blu. Escape Artists released The Weather Man , starring Nicolas Cage , in

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