With big things on the horizon.
Co-founder of Rooster Teeth Burnie Burns has today announced he has (re-)acquired the brand.
Burns (above left, pictured with wife Ashley Burns) co-founded Rooster Teeth alongside long-time partners Gus Sorola, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Joel Heyman, and Matt Hullum in 2003. The company rose to immediate fame with Red vs Blue, a machima series based off of Microsoft’s Halo.
Since that time, Rooster Teeth has been in the hands of numerous organisations including Fullscreen, Otter Media, TimeWarner, and Warner Bros Discovery. The latter closed down the company in 2024.
Now, Burns’ company Box Canyon Productions has acquired the brand, which plans “to renew its focus on innovation, community engagement, and the spirit of creativity that first defined its success”.
“I am excited at the challenge of bringing Rooster Teeth back to its roots,” Burns said in a statement. “The heart of this brand has always been its fans, and I look forward to writing a new chapter together.”
The company is already hard at work on “renewed production of some of the platform’s classic shows, a new original audio adventure Again, and an untitled reimagining of Burns’ first film The Schedule.”
In today’s episode of the Burns’ podcast, Morning Somewhere, Burnie Burns said that he and his wife Ashley are behind the brand’s revival, and that other former Rooster Teeth personalities are not. He also asked that fans refrain from contacting former Rooster Teeth staffers to ask about this initiative, as they’re all hard at work on their own projects.
That episode of Morning Somewhere can be streamed above.
We’ll keep you posted about Rooster Teeth as we learn more.
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