Nickelodeon Greenlights Third Fred Movie, Builds up 20-Episode Fred Series

EXCLUSIVE: Nickelodeon keeps growing its Fred franchise, which started while using 2010 smash Fred: The Film, seen by 8.7 million audiences within the premiere. The kids cable network has greenlighted another film additionally to some 20-episode quantity of 11-minute self-contained episodes. The move happens the heels of lately’s debut of Fred 2: Evening in the Living Fred, which shipped 5.7 million total audiences. The series is slated to start production within the finish of year for just about any premiere noisy . 2012. It'll be then Fred 3‘s debut later around. Like the first 2 movies, the next one as well as the series star Lucas Cruikshank and be a consequence of the Fred character the teen comic created in many YouTube videos. The series marks Fred‘s return to the short-form it originated from in online. “It is really a mash-in the initial Fred and that which you did while using movies,” John Robbins mentioned. Robbins’ College Pictures as well as the Collective, which together funded the initial movie, have came back as producers in the new film and series. Cruikshank, College’s Robbins and Sharla Sumpter-Bridgett as well as the Collective’s Evan Weiss and Gary Binkow are executive creating. Cruikshank first introduced Fred Figglehorn, a imaginary 6-year-old which has a dysfunctional home existence and anger management issues, around the Fred YouTube funnel, which launched in April 2008. Yearly later, the funnel had greater than millions of clients but got the eye of Robbins and management-production company The Collective. “It’s amazing,” Robbins mentioned. “Two in the past, Lucas will be a kid making videos from his house in Nebraska. Now he’s got 3 movies together with a set.”