IDT Ent.’s CG house, Mainframe Ent., and toymaker Mattel Inc. have pacted to produce a new computer-animated feature based on the popular Max Steel action figures. The deal continues a successful partnership that has created three top-selling direct-to-video features based on Mattel’s Barbie property.
Max Steel is an extreme secret agent and action hero destined to protect the world from evil by way of his superhuman strength and agility. In the new 66-minute feature titled Max Steel: Endangered Species, our hero takes on not one but two wicked threats deep in the heart of South America when the future of humanity is put in danger.
Mainframe produced two seasons of the Max Steel CG-animated series which aired in 2002 and 2001 on Kids’ WB!
In addition to pics based on Max Steel, Barbie and fellow Mattel brand Hotwheels, Vancouver-based Mainframe’s loaded production slate includes the direct-to-video feature Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Goes the Circus, A CG Inspector Gadget TV special co-produced by DIC, the 3D special Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy for Fox television and a TV series based on the critically acclaimed comic book Alien Legion by Carl Potts, to name a few.
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