So it fucking happened.

We had our first pitch for Olympus Burger with 20th Century Fox. I found out last week and scrambled to get tickets out to LA to make it. I was hustling at 9AM the day we left getting our Pitch Books printed at Kinkos.

We made it over to the Fox lot with about two hours to figure out where the hell we were and where we were supposed to go. Moving Box's business manager Connor and I practiced our pitch (he took the marketing end, I took the production / character end) and felt good, and headed in 15 minutes early (as suggested by our link).

So we waited 15 minutes. "He's going to be another 20 minutes"

So we waited 20 minutes. "He's in the Sound Studio working on a trailer. Could we re-schedule for late this week?"

I flew out here on my Dad's frequent flier miles, I can't afford no re-schedule, woman! My flight back was in 7 hours, I took days off work and evaporated the last of my bank account to get sent home? Hell no! As luck would have it, she gave a shit, and found us the VP of Digital Marketing - exactly the person who'd handle an Internet based project like Olympus Burger. We gave him our pitch book and one of the last Olympus Burger DVDs and pitched our show for about 20 minutes. He seemed busy, but interested. What happened then was really awesome. We continued to chat with the lady who had hooked us up with him. She turned out to be Executive VP of Media & Market Planning (and a huge animation fan), and she gave us a list of networks she thought were a good fit for Olympus Burger. Half we hadn't even thought of, like Disney XD, Nick Toons, and even the usually-worth-nothing-but-sometimes-gr eenlights-gems-MTV. We left with a list of leads, and two email addresses of friends in high places.

No deals to speak of yet, but a big step in the right direction. I'm working on Olympus Burger HD, an edited, scored, sound re-designed and graphically polished version of the pilot (slated for release in August). The meeting has gotten me feeling really good about the project started almost four years ago, and now I'm certain, network involvement or no, that the Olympus Burger series is going to continue.

Thanks to all our focus group members and everyone who watched, rated, and reviewed the pilot episode here on Newgrounds. Some of your comments are in our pitch book (thanks to those who proofread your reviews ;). Your support has brought us this far, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are the people we do it for. Everything By Everyone.