Huevocartoon
Huevocartoon is a Mexican multimedia entertainment brand founded in November 2001 by Gabriel and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste, Carlos Zepeda Chehaibar, and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Velasco. It consists of an internet series, four feature films, a video game, a television special, and advertisements, featuring anthropomorphic eggs in a civilized and humorous setting.
History
The brand was founded in November 2001 by brothers Gabriel and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste, Carlos Zepeda Chehaibar, and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Velascoas, as an internet website dedicated to animation, originally called 'La Comunidad Huevo'. The website was officially been launched in 6 January 2002. Since then, the website gained 3 million visitors within the first three months of its launch, and at the end of 2004, it was visited 230,000 times daily. Tycoon Enterprises, a marketing investing company, invested in Huevocartoon within six months of the launch after gaining popularity. Hoping to expand into higher-budgeted projects, such as a film and a television series, the company partnered with several marketing companies, including Sabritas, Renault, and Telcel, to include the 'Huevos' characters and brands in their advertisements. Nonetheless, the marketing and licensing campaign helped the company's budget and plans for a film has moved on.character frequently featured in the Huevos films.
The company's first film, Una Película de Huevos, was released in theaters in Mexico on 21 April 2006, becoming a major box-office hit, grossing $142.3 million pesos. The film later won the Ariel Award in 2007 for 'Mejor largometraje de animación'.
The second film, Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo, was released on 20 March 2009. Despite a weaker performance, it was another box-office success, grossing $113.5 million pesos.
Un gallo con muchos huevos was released in Mexico on 20 August 2015 where it was a major box-office success and holds the record as the highest-grossing Mexican animated film of all time. It grossed $167.8 million pesos. The film was also released in the United States on 4 September 2015, distributed by Pantelion Films, where it was a surprise box-office success. The release thrilled the filmmakers, to which co-director Gabriel Riva called it "a dream come true", as it had been their goal to release a film in the U.S. from the beginning of the company's foundation. Neither of its predecessors were released in the United States in any major format due to their controversial and edgy content, failing to match the humor code within the American animation film industry.
The company's next film, Marcianos vs. Mexicanos, was released on 9 March 2018. Unlike its past feature productions, Marcianos has an original concept and features an entirely human cast. Additionally, the film is aimed for an adult audience. The film features the voices of Adal Ramones, Martha Higareda, Omar Chaparro, Angélica Vale and Eduardo Manzano.
Other upcoming films include two succeeding Huevos films, and the horror-comedy, Grimalkin, which will all be animated with computer animation.
Huevocartoon Producciones
Huevocartoon Producciones is the production label of the company. It is best known for producing films based on the "Huevos" characters from the internet shorts. All of the films, with the exception of Marcianos vs. Mexicanos, have performed commercially well, many earning over $100 million pesos.Films
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Frequent and recurring collaborates
In addition to the Riva brothers, Gabriel and Rodolfo, taking part in voicing aside of directing, producing, and writing, each film produced by Huevocartoon features the voice of famous Mexican talent, including Bruno Bichir, Carlos Espejel, and Angélica Vale, as well as some recognizable voice-over artists known for Spanish-dubbing in cartoons, such as Humberto Vélez and Rubén Moya. In the crew department, Carlos Zepeda, the company's co-founder and composer, provided music for the first two films, while Spanish composer, Zacarías M. de la Riva composed music for the third film. Amado López and Javier Calderón composed music for Marcianos vs. Mexicanos. Paco Arriagada co-produced the first two films. Ignacio Casares produced the other two films including Marcianos. The following consists of the list of actors and actresses who have provided voice work in two or more films. People who have single roles aren't included.| Actor/actress | Una Película de Huevos | Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo | Un gallo con muchos huevos | Marcianos vs. Mexicanos | Un rescate de huevitos |
| Bruno Bichir | |||||
| Maite Perroni | |||||
| Carlos Espejel | |||||
| Angélica Vale | |||||
| Omar Chaparro | |||||
| Humberto Vélez | |||||
| Gabriel Riva Palacio | |||||
| Rodolfo Riva Palacio | |||||
| Fernando Meza | |||||
| Rubén Moya | |||||
| Mario Filio | |||||
| Lourdes Morán | |||||
| Gaby Torres | |||||
| Enzo Fortuny | |||||
| Carlos Cobos | |||||
| Paco Arriagada |
Single-film collaborates
The following consists of a list of actors and actresses who have provided voice-overs to a character in at least one film. Only those who have notable roles are included.| Actor/actress | Una Película de Huevos | Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo | Un gallo con muchos huevos | Marcianos vs. Mexicanos | Un rescate de huevitos |
| Miguel Guerrero | |||||
| Darío T. Pie | |||||
| Lucila Mariscal | |||||
| Patricio Castillo | |||||
| Armando González | |||||
| Olga Fernández | |||||
| Sergio Sendel | |||||
| Facundo | |||||
| Ninel Conde | |||||
| José Lavat | |||||
| María Alicia Delgado | |||||
| Juan Frese | |||||
| Cláudio Herrera | |||||
| Humberto Vélez Jr. | |||||
| Paco González | |||||
| Adal Ramones | |||||
| Martha Higareda | |||||
| Eduardo Manzano | |||||
| Jaime Maussan | |||||
| Miguel Rodarte | |||||
| Jesús Ochoa | |||||
| Mauricio Barrientos | |||||
| Mara Escalante | |||||
| Freddy Ortega | |||||
| Germán Ortega |
Internet series
Huevocartoon is a Mexican internet series created by Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste, Carlos Zepeda Chehaibar, and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Velasco. Its content typically features characters portrayed as civilized eggs, set in a humorous setting which focuses on politics, socialization, and culture.Much of the content is primarily aimed for a teen-to-adult audience as much of the shorts' content is "rauchy" and "edgy", to which co-creator Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste calls it a "latino South Park".
All the shorts are written, directed, and voiced by brothers, Gabriel and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste, and is produced by Huevocartoon Producciones.
The original YouTube channel was created in 2007, which has gained over 2 million subscribers. Later, the company launched a new YouTube channel in 2014, named HuevocartoonTV, designed specifically for an English-language audience.
Videos
- Poeta Huevos : A parody of William Shakespeare, the sketch follows three eggs dressed in a medieval-like attire, Ferdinand, Rododendro, and Gabrelle, as they attempt to recite a poetry to the audience in several cuts, while become increasingly drunk due to consuming alcohol.
- Huevos Rancheros : Inspired by the Mexican dish of the same name, the sketch focuses on two ranchero-like eggs, named Chema and Chava. The eggs are portrayed homosexual in nature.
- Tenorio e Inés : In a parody of Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla, Tenorio the egg tries to recite a poet to Inés, an insensitive and rude egg who frequently interrupts Ternorio's poets.
- Huevo Filósofo : The Huevo Filósofo, who is sometimes referred as the "Easter Egg", is a psychedelic, clueless, and friendly hippie-like egg. He often enjoys smoking marijuana, and is very talkative, haughty, and ridiculous. He often calls everyone "carnal".
- Huevo Zen : The sketch is about an egg with a karate gear who tries to teach martial arts and meditation with his young lemon companion, Lee-Mong-Shu-Pao.
- Huevos Bongó : Two Cuban-origin eggs are a bongo duo who start a conversation and then transform the talk into a Caribbean song using their bongo drums.
- El Huevasesino : An egg within the horror figures, such as Saw, Friday the 13th, The Ring, etc., was considered a villain at first. In the end, however, he reveals his true friendly nature and wants to make friends, but is resulted in being killed, insulted, and ignored. He wears a hockey mask and carries a large knife, in parody of Jason Voorhees.
- Los Super Huevos - They are a group of superheroes who make up "the Egg of Justice ", parodying the Justice League.
- El Huevo Santa - Being a parody of Santa Claus, the Huevo Santa is a bitter and serious egg that gives bad gifts of low cost to the children because, according to him, they never behave well. He's never been in the chimney when he delivers gifts. In his workshop, his helper elves don't work. He only has a hungry-looking reindeer: Rudolph.
- Dr. Frankendemente y Eggor - In a parody of Frankenstein. Dr. Frankendemente and his assistant Eggor will try to build the Monster Egg to scare people away, but there will always be something missing, and everything will go wrong because of Eggor.
- Huevitos en el Espacio - A space crew that has the mission to travel on their spacecraft to discover new hidden objects or fight with enemies in a comic way, in parody of Star Trek.
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