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Exclusive: Australia’s Odin’s Eye Animation (Oea) has boarded sales on caveman comedy Rock Bottom, starring the voices of top comedy actors Rob Schneider and Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias.

The movie is the latest production from Mexican animation powerhouse Huevocartoon Studios, for which Oea previously sold Little Eggs: An African Rescue and Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue.

Schneider has voiced a raft of animated features and series across his career, including most recently Adam Sandler’s Leo. Gabriel Iglesias’s many animation voice credits include The Nut Job and The Book Of Life.

Rock Bottom is a co-production with Dario Sanchez’s 3DoublesProductions, the Spanish studio based in Tenerife known for its work on 100% Wolf, Inspector Sun and upcoming movie SuperKlaus.

Oea has acquired world-wide rights to the picture excluding Latin America which will be handled by Videocine; Televisa/Univision) and Spain (3 Doubles Productions).

As per the synopsis, Rock Bottom follows the story of Gungo,...

The Mexican feature known in Spanish as Huevitos Congelados is produced by Televisa Univision.

Australian sales outfit Odin’s Eye Animation has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Latin America and the US, to Mexican feature Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue (Huevitos Congelados) from Televisa Univision.

Rodolpho and Gabriel Riva Palacio co-direct the latest instalment in the Huevos franchise from Mexico’s HuevsCartoon. The film is an irreverent family road trip to Antarctica, involving a polar bear cub, orcas, pirates a sea lion and surfing penguins.

“In the end, we can all relate with a story of a lost kid reuniting with his family,...

A family of anthropomorphised eggs land themselves in hot water in a dismal film full of garish visuals and unfunny gags

With this family animation, Mexican film-making brothers Gabriel and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste put young and old alike through a gruelling ordeal of headachey hyperactive visuals and flatlining gags. This 2021 film is the latest instalment of their Little Eggs franchise, getting a UK release presumably to cash in on the Easter school holidays. Though to be honest, I’d take two weeks locked inside a soft-play centre with a class of Year Ones over sitting through it again.

The story begins on a farm in Mexico where rooster Toto has become the proud dad of two adorable eggs: a boy and a girl who pop out with legs and arms, wearing matching sneakers and talking. I was puzzled by the egg aspect of the film: is it weird that...

Animation set for France (Alba) and the UK and Ireland (Dazzler).

Australia’s Odin’s Eye has hatched further theatrical deals on its Mexican animated feature, Little Eggs: An African Rescue to France (Alba) and the UK and Ireland (Dazzler).

Other deals include Greece (Tanweer), Vietnam (Green Media), South Africa (Black Sheep), Taiwan (Creative Century), Turkey (Ahmet Kara Siyahbeyaz Film), South Korea (Boxoo), and Israel (Filmhouse).

Directed by Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste, Little Eggs: An African Rescue is about an egg and his friends who must rescue egg children from the clutches of the organiser...