Big Fantastic, LLC is a production company

Production company

A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

 located in Santa Monica, California which creates, develops and produces online video entertainment. The company is currently most known for their two popular web series Sam Has 7 Friends and Prom Queen

Prom Queen (internet series)

Prom Queen is the first web television series produced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's new production company Vuguru and the returning web television production company Big Fantastic, the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends...

. Recent project include the web experiment Control TV

Control TV

ControlTV is a live interactive reality web show produced by Seth Green. Starting October 6, 2010, 25-year-old Tristan Couvares began the experiment of having his life filmed all day, every day, for a duration of 6 weeks. The team from ControlTV, has officially announced that they are preparing to...

, the web sitcom Cockpit, Foreign Body

Foreign Body (internet series)

Foreign Body was a 2008 webseries coproduced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's production company Vuguru, former Walt Disney executives Dominique Bourse's and Pierre Sissmann's production company Cyber Group Studios and the internet series production company Big Fantastic, the creators of...

, a prequel to the Robin Cook

Robin Cook

Robert Finlayson Cook was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Livingston from 1983 until his death, and notably served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001....

 novel, and Sorority Forever

Sorority Forever

Sorority Forever is a web television series created and produced by web production company Big Fantastic, the creators of SamHas7Friends and Prom Queen. Film director McG is an executive producer of the show...

for The WB.

Overview

Big Fantastic started as an ambitious attempt by Douglas Cheney, Chris McCaleb, Ryan Wise, and Chris Hampel to revolutionize the web series

Web series

A web series is a series of episodes released on the Internet or also by mobile or cellular phone, and part of the newly emerging medium called web television. A single instance of a web series program is called an episode .While the popularity of web series is continuing to rise, the concept...

 phenomenon by serializing dramatic content into a short, daily 90 second format. The company also expands their product into the metaverse

Metaverse

The Metaverse is our collective online shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space, including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the internet...

 by giving the characters in their shows MySpace

MySpace

Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

 pages and Blogs. Big Fantastic originally was funded completely out of their own pockets, but has now made deals with Warner Brothers, Vuguru

Vuguru

Vuguru is an independent multi-platform studio founded by Tornante in March 2006. The studio's first project, "Prom Queen", consisted of 90-second shorts in 80 episodes and was distributed online, beginning in April 2007. A second project entitled "The All for Nots" was distributed online and on...

, Generate LA-NY

Generate LA-NY

Generate is a Los Angeles-based entertainment studio that produces content for distribution across media, including the Internet, television, web television, film, video games, mobile devices and books. The company completed a $6 million Series A round of funding backed by Velocity Interactive...

, 60 Frames and other companies for further productions. The Big Fantastic company was Emmy nominated twice for the Outstanding Broadband Drama award in 2007. One nomination for Sam Has 7 Friends and one for Prom Queen

Prom Queen (internet series)

Prom Queen is the first web television series produced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's new production company Vuguru and the returning web television production company Big Fantastic, the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends...

.

2008

• Cockpit

  Cockpit is a comedy web series about the fictional employees of Mile High Airlines. All five episodes were taped one day at Air Hollywood in the same cockpit set that the film Airplane!

  Airplane!

  Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures...

  
  was shot in. The cast includes David Storrs as Capt. Kent Gaskins, Tim Halling as Capt. John Pinneke, Mikaela Hoover

  Mikaela Hoover

  Mikaela Hoover is an American actress. Hoover's recent credits include the Rain Wilson & Ellen Page superhero film Super , the Emmy Award winning series How I Met Your Mother, and ABC's Happy Endings....

  
   as Trixie Sanders, Tim Coyne as Dan Wishbone, and Kelly Marchand as Jeannie Jacobson.

• Foreign Body
  Foreign Body (internet series)
  Foreign Body was a 2008 webseries coproduced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's production company Vuguru, former Walt Disney executives Dominique Bourse's and Pierre Sissmann's production company Cyber Group Studios and the internet series production company Big Fantastic, the creators of...
  
  
• Sorority Forever
  Sorority Forever
  Sorority Forever is a web television series created and produced by web production company Big Fantastic, the creators of SamHas7Friends and Prom Queen. Film director McG is an executive producer of the show...
  
  

External links

• Official webpage
• Video interview of Big Fantastic founders by Zadi Diaz of EPIC FU, weekly web show that covers online pop culture (September 9, 2008)
• Cockpit official website