‘Bugs’ crawls to 3-D film, videogame

Two years after they launched vidgame development shingle MKO, MK2 topper Nathanael Karmitz and Onyx Films’ president Aton Soumache are teaming up to produce a 3-D animated film and videogame based on Antoon Krings’ bestselling children series “Funny Little Bugs.” Budgeted at $33 million, the “Bugs” toon and vidgame will be produced simultaneously by MKO. Kringe will co-direct the family-oriented toon, which is in development and will begin production in January 2010. “Through MKO we want to make the worlds of cinema, audiovisual and videogame fuse artistically,” said Karmitz. “This synergy allows us to coordinate production, distribution, marketing and publishing and retain all the distribution rights. ” – from Variety