Post by echofox on Jun 26, 2023 2:12:05 GMT
I came across that YouTube channel years ago. Given the Clinton digs and fixation/rare Stan Lee Media clips, I think it might be run by Peter F. Paul. That promo reel had interested me ever since as that looked well beyond what was released for the 7th Portal and Backstreet Project. It's possible SLM had ambitions of developing those into TV shows and those were used to interest investors. I did some digging and found out one of the clips was from a failed Mary J. Blige project.
I hadn't really looked into NIC Entertainment, so I never made that link to John Petrovitz. His Linkedin page has a very extensive work history that'll answer all your questions:
0:48 - Mary J. Blige
01:13 - Deadforce
01:26 + 02:52 - U.S. War Marchine
01:49 - Mike, Lu and Og
02:01 - All Aboard America
02:17 + 02:35 - Tripping the Rift, presumably the pilot versus the final show
03:02 - The Santa Claus Brothers
NIC uploaded the same reel onto Vimeo in slightly higher quality. The also put up the pilot for Tripping the Rift alongside the promotional video for U.S. War Machine:
vimeo.com/user49330913
Since the Mary J. Blige one caught your eye the most, clips from that were shown at her concerts during the "Mary" tour in the summer of 2000. Stan Lee Media's website seemed to have hosted the entirety of that footage, but it's extremely low resolution and Archive.org didn't perserve the entire video. The announcement for this states they had plans on launching webisodes based on this concept in the fall, but AFAIK, that never happened.
www.mtv.com/news/wxmjrk/mary-j-blige-inks-deal-for-super-heroine-cartoon
web.archive.org/web/20000711024747/http://www.stanlee.net:80/maryjblige/video.html
The company had lots of projects that were never completed. They purchased the rights to Conan the Barbarian and planned on making superheros out of motocross athletes like Mike LaRocco, Ben Bostrom and Missy Giove.
web.archive.org/web/20010202233800/http://corp.stanlee.net/
I hadn't really looked into NIC Entertainment, so I never made that link to John Petrovitz. His Linkedin page has a very extensive work history that'll answer all your questions:
Credits include " Mike, Lu and Og" - 52 half hour TV episodes for Cartoon Network, 1998 -2000; " Tutenstein" -26 half hour TV episodes for Discovery Kids / CBS, 2003 - 2004 (Emmy Award) ; " Deadforce" development for Second Wind Studios, 2003; " Tripping the Rift" the Pilot and 13 half hour TV episodes for Cinegrope (Canada), 2005; " Felix Saves Christmas" animated feature preproduction for Felix the Cat, 2005;" What's with Andy?" 26 half hour TV episodes for Cinegrope (Canada) " 2005; 199 -2000" 7th Portal" Stan Lee Media special, "Backstreet Boys" , "Mary J. Blige" , "Accuser " t, "Drifter" for Stan Lee Media1; " US War Machine " 13 comic books and animated Trailer for MAX Comics ( Marvel), 2004; "V - Force" animated episodes and comic books for SUN Microsystems, 2004;" Day of the Dead" special ,2005; " All Aboard America “special for Bold Eagle Entertainment, 2003;" Itty Bitty Heartbeats" specials for Levy Mann Entertainment, 2005; " Spooctacular " feature development for Felix the Cat Production, 2005; " Superheroes Christmas" development for POW Entertainment, 2005; " Speed Racer " development, Speed Racer Enterprises ,2009 - 2010; " Cool Flame. The Reporter " in preproduction, for NIC Entertainment, 2014 -2016; "Donky " development, 26 TV half hour episodes for CaToKi GmbH (Germany), 2012 -2015; 2014 - 16 - " Velocity Extreme" - TV episodes’ development; 2015 - 16 - " Oolygallies" development, 26 TV episodes and picture book for NIC Entertainment; 2015 - 16 " Journey to Shanghai " - development for Pilgrim Film; 2015 -16 "Virtual Marilyn. Secret Singularity" development and WEBisodes production for Digicon Media; 2016 -17 - "J lem Zero" development for "Eight Square Studio"
Also produced by NIC Entertainment in Europe in 1992-94 were short films "D.A.R.E. Report" for Ravenswood Films , “Past Indefinite" and " Switchcraft" (Grand Prize Annecy "95), " Miracle of Miracles" for ZIS Productions.
Also produced by NIC Entertainment in Europe in 1992-94 were short films "D.A.R.E. Report" for Ravenswood Films , “Past Indefinite" and " Switchcraft" (Grand Prize Annecy "95), " Miracle of Miracles" for ZIS Productions.
0:48 - Mary J. Blige
01:13 - Deadforce
01:26 + 02:52 - U.S. War Marchine
01:49 - Mike, Lu and Og
02:01 - All Aboard America
02:17 + 02:35 - Tripping the Rift, presumably the pilot versus the final show
03:02 - The Santa Claus Brothers
NIC uploaded the same reel onto Vimeo in slightly higher quality. The also put up the pilot for Tripping the Rift alongside the promotional video for U.S. War Machine:
vimeo.com/user49330913
Since the Mary J. Blige one caught your eye the most, clips from that were shown at her concerts during the "Mary" tour in the summer of 2000. Stan Lee Media's website seemed to have hosted the entirety of that footage, but it's extremely low resolution and Archive.org didn't perserve the entire video. The announcement for this states they had plans on launching webisodes based on this concept in the fall, but AFAIK, that never happened.
www.mtv.com/news/wxmjrk/mary-j-blige-inks-deal-for-super-heroine-cartoon
web.archive.org/web/20000711024747/http://www.stanlee.net:80/maryjblige/video.html
The company had lots of projects that were never completed. They purchased the rights to Conan the Barbarian and planned on making superheros out of motocross athletes like Mike LaRocco, Ben Bostrom and Missy Giove.
web.archive.org/web/20010202233800/http://corp.stanlee.net/