Box Canyon Productions

What does Box Canyon Productions own?

The company owns the Rooster Teeth brand, website, community platform, and content library acquired from Warner Bros. Discovery in February 2025. Notably, it does not own RWBY, which WBD retained.

Is Box Canyon Productions publicly traded?

No. The company is privately owned by Burnie Burns with no outside investors disclosed and no stock listing.

Who founded Box Canyon Productions?

Burnie Burns founded the company in 2024 to acquire and revive Rooster Teeth, the studio he co-founded in 2003 and left in 2019 after successive corporate acquisitions.

Where is Box Canyon Productions headquartered?

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, the city where Rooster Teeth was founded and operated throughout its history.

Who owns Box Canyon Productions?

Burnie Burns owns the company outright. No investors or partners have been disclosed.

Does Box Canyon own RWBY?

No. Warner Bros. Discovery retained the RWBY animated series when it sold Rooster Teeth to Box Canyon. The property remains dormant under WBD ownership.

What is Box Canyon Productions doing with Rooster Teeth?

The company has relaunched Rooster Teeth as an independent production business, producing new Red vs. Blue content, podcasts, and shows, managing the library for licensing, and restoring the website and community platform.

Burnie Burns co-founded Rooster Teeth in 2003 in Austin, Texas, with Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, and others, launching Red vs. Blue as one of the first successful internet-native video series. The show's popularity, built on machinima technology using the Halo game engine, made Rooster Teeth a defining company in early internet entertainment.

Rooster Teeth grew into a full production studio producing animation, podcasts, live action, and gaming content. It was acquired by Fullscreen in 2014, which was absorbed into Otter Media in 2018, then into WarnerMedia in 2019, and finally Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022. Each corporate layer added resources but distanced the studio from its founder-driven culture.

Warner Bros. Discovery shut down Rooster Teeth in March 2024 as part of cost-cutting, ending 21 years of operation and laying off most of the staff. The shutdown generated substantial fan and industry attention as the end of a pioneering internet entertainment brand.

Burns announced in February 2025 that Box Canyon Productions had acquired the Rooster Teeth brand, website, community platform, and content library from WBD. The deal made him owner of the studio he had founded and left, a circular history unusual in media. He relaunched Rooster Teeth as an independent company producing new and archival content.

As of late 2026, Box Canyon operates Rooster Teeth as a leaner production business, releasing new Red vs. Blue content, producing podcasts and shows, and managing the library for licensing. The company has not pursued the streaming subscription model that defined the corporate era, focusing instead on ad-supported and direct-to-fan revenue.

As a small private production company, Box Canyon does not publish formal sustainability or ESG programs. Its operational footprint is limited to office and studio facilities in Austin, Texas.

RWBY Exclusion: The most significant limitation of the acquisition is that Warner Bros. Discovery retained RWBY, Rooster Teeth's most valuable original animated property. The exclusion has been a point of fan criticism, as the series remains dormant under WBD ownership while Box Canyon revives other properties.

Scale Reduction: The relaunch operates at a fraction of the former studio's scale, and some former employees and fans have noted that the revived operation cannot produce the volume of content the corporate era supported.

Acquisition Terms: Financial terms of the WBD deal were not disclosed, generating speculation about whether Burns paid a nominal price for a distressed asset. Neither party has confirmed the transaction value.