Promenade Pictures is a motion picture production company founded in 2003 by Frank Yablans

Frank Yablans

Frank Yablans is an American film producer and screenwriter The son of a Brooklyn cab driver and brother to fellow film producer Irwin Yablans, Yablans' first employers in the film business included Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company and Filmways...

, the former head of Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 and of MGM/UA. The stated goal of the company is the creation of family-friendly films http://www.promenadepictures.com/.In 2007, the company released its first film, an animated

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 version of The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments (2007 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 2007 American computer animated film directed by John Stronach and Bill Boyce. The film was released to theaters on October 19, 2007 and on DVD on February 5, 2008.-Cast:*Ben Kingsley as Narrator*Elliott Gould as God...

. It is the first in their "Epic Stories of the Bible" series.http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i88e7ce93c366c112f4df27c29a28a156 The followup, scheduled for release in 2010, is Noah's Ark: The New Beginning

Noah's Ark: The New Beginning

Noah's Ark: The New Beginning is an upcoming animated film featuring an ensemble voice cast. It is a retelling of the Biblical story of Noah's Ark, told from the point of view of the animals on the ark, and is the second in the Promenade Pictures Epic Stories of the Bible film series, following on...

. Another film, Gideon's Gift, based on the novel by Karen Kingsbury

Karen kingsbury

Karen Kingsbury is an American Christian novelist. Her first novel was Missy's Murder. She got this idea from an optional topic in the Los Angeles Times....

, was scheduled for release in 2008.

The Note

The Note (film)

The Note is a television movie directed by Douglas Barr and starring Genie Francis and Ted McGinley. The movie aired on Hallmark Channel in December 2007. It is based on the novel by Angela Hunt. It was filmed on location in Hamilton, Ontario....

, a made-for-television film, was broadcast on the Faith and Values Network in December 2007.http://www.newsletterarchive.org/2007/10/20/244214-Faith-Friendly+Film+News:+%22A+New+Moses+Comes+to+Theaters+This+Week%22

Promenade partners with New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

-based Huhu Studios

Huhu Studios

Huhu Studios is a animation studio based in Warkworth, New Zealand.Huhu Studios produced Turbo Dogs,...

 and Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

-based iVL Animation. Promenade Pictures is also teamed with the Salem Radio Network

Salem Radio Network

Salem Radio Network is a United States-based radio network that specializes in syndicated Christian talk, music, and secular news/talk programming...

 to produce a weekly radio program based on Promenade's CD Creator Kids.http://www.creatorkids.com/

Yablans serves as Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

. The COO

Chief operating officer

A Chief Operating Officer or Director of Operations can be one of the highest-ranking executives in an organization and comprises part of the "C-Suite"...

 is Cindy Bond, former President of Wild Horse Entertainment.