{"id":761348,"date":"2026-07-14T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:15:09","slug":"cartoon-cat-movie-in-the-works-at-tristar-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761348\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cartoon Cat&#8217; Movie In The Works At TriStar Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: After <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/siren-head\/\" id=\"auto-tag_siren-head\" data-tag=\"siren-head\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siren Head<\/a> sold to Warner Bros. in a massive bidding war, another viral internet sensation from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/trevor-henderson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trevor-henderson\" data-tag=\"trevor-henderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Henderson<\/a> has found a new home. In a pre-emptive deal, Sony\u2019s Tri-Star Pictures has swooped in to acquire the feature film rights to Henderson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cartoon-cat\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cartoon-cat\" data-tag=\"cartoon-cat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cartoon Cat<\/a> following. This sale marks the second feature deal for Henderson in as many weeks following the 5-way studio bidding war for his Siren Head creature which landed at Warner Bros. with Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield co-writing and Duffield directing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRoy Lee, Steven Schneider, Scott Glassgold, and J. Todd Harris,\u00a0along with Thomas Pettinelli and Marc Marcum\u00a0will be involved in producing .<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHenderson, a well respected creature designer whose work has received billions of views on line, has found fresh interest from Hollywood in the wake of Kane Parson\u2019s Backrooms and Markiplier\u2019s Iron Lung. In fact it was Markiplier who was an early booster for Henderson and his Siren Head that helped kickstart Henderson\u2019s rabid following.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTri-Star is said to be looking to hit the ground running on the filmmaker search to bring Cartoon Cat to life. The menacing cat is described as an ancient hollow rot that uses the collective human awareness and memories of old cartoons as a passageway to manifest into our reality \u2013 and wreak violent havoc. Nicole Brown and Malcolm Gray of Tri-Star are responsible for wrangling the evil cat and will oversee its fast- tracked development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSony Pictures has a long-standing relationship with Henderson, as he did concept art on Screen Gems\u2019 Tarot, and represents a further investment into Trevor as a creator, and the broader\u00a0creator-led space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHenderson is repped by Verve, Josh Dove and Marios Rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After Siren Head sold to Warner Bros. in a massive bidding war, another viral internet sensation from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[325953,88,206,317209,325954,197346],"class_list":["post-761348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cartoon-cat","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-siren-head","tag-trevor-henderson","tag-tristar-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}