Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. There was a story that hit the trades this morning about a new company being formed with independent financing with an aim to produce 2-D genre films.

I was excited when I read that... thinking of a full on 2-D horror film, R-rated and gory... I'm tired of anime getting all the "adult" animation.

But it's not quite that, unfortunately. However, this company, called Frederator Films, have the SAMURAI JACK movie, with Genndy Tartakovsky on-board to write and direct. It looks like each of their projects will have budgets around or under $20 million.

If this means they give Tartakovsky creative freedom and the resources to make a badass SAMURAI JACK movie, then I'm all for it.

The other two announced projects are THE NEVERHOOD, based on the video game of the same name and to be done as claymation with the game's creator writing and directing and THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, which is a hip-hop project, apparently. Don King (yes, that Don King) is already attached as a voice. What are your thoughts on all this?