Producers partner on 3d toon 'Nut House'

Vanguard Animation is joining track of Arc Prods. on its CG 3d animated heist film, "The Nut House" with production to start within the month of the month of january. Ross Venokur making his directorial debut using their own script with John Grain also pointing. SC Films Worldwide is handling worldwide sales efforts within the approaching American Film Market. The story begins when mega-conglomerate Nut House Nuts harvests the forest due to its very own commercial gain and ex-disadvantage squirrel plans the heist in the century -- entering our prime-security packaging plant to reclaim the nuts using his trusty, right-hands porcupine plus an elite team of scrappy forest citizens. Film will probably be produced by John Williams and "Kung Fu Panda" director John Stevenson. Williams creating credits are the initial few "Shrek" films, "Valiant," "Space Chimps" as well as the approaching "On the road,In . directed by Walter Salles. Geneva Wasserman, longtime certification professional in feature animation, may also be an expert producer and may mount an worldwide certification and selling program for "The Nut House." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com