Netflix has shared new particulars, first-look pictures, and casting reveals for 9 animated movies slated for launch over the following 18 months. Capability appears excessive – bear in mind, final summer season, the streamer introduced its acquisition of the award-winning impartial animation studio Animal Logic. Simply saying…
Highlights embrace two new function movies coming in 2024: Saving Bikini Backside: The Sandy Cheeks Film and In Your Goals, and an ensemble voice forged announcement for the summer season 2023 launch of Nimona.
Netflix’s 2023-2024 Characteristic Animation Slate:
Nimona – Coming Summer season 2023
Based mostly on the bestselling graphic novel by ND Stevenson. Nimona follows Ballister Boldheart, a knight framed for a criminal offense he didn’t commit, and the titular shapeshifter who units out to assist him show his innocence.
Netflix has confirmed that beforehand introduced forged members, Chloë Grace Moretz (Nimona), Riz Ahmed (Ballister Boldheart), and Eugene Lee Yang (Ambrosius Goldenloin) can be joined by Frances Conroy; Lorraine Toussaint; Beck Bennett; RuPaul Charles; Indya Moore; Julio Torres; and Sarah Sherman.
Nimona is directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane and produced by Karen Ryan, p.g.a, Julie Zackary, p.g.a., and Roy Lee. The screenplay is by Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor; the story is by Baird; Pamela Ribon; Marc Haimes; Bruno; Quane; and Keith Bunin. Govt producers are Megan Ellison; Baird; Andrew Millstein, and John Powers Middleton. Annapurna Animation produces the film.
The Monkey King – Coming Summer season 2023
The animated movie is an action-packed household comedy that follows a charismatic Monkey and his magical combating Stick on an epic quest for victory over 100 demons, an eccentric Dragon King, and Monkey’s best foe—his personal ego! Alongside the best way, a younger village lady challenges his self-centered perspective and exhibits him that even the smallest pebble can vastly have an effect on the world.
Directed by Anthony Stacchi (The Boxtrolls) with Peilin Chou as producer and Stephen Chow as govt producer.
The forged contains Jimmy O. Yang; Bowen Yang; Jolie Hoang-Rappaport; Jo Koy; Ron Yuan; Hoon Lee; Stephanie Hsu; Andrew Pang; Andrew Kishino; Jodi Lengthy; James Sie; and BD Wong.
Leo – Coming Fall 2023
Actor and comic Adam Sandler (Lodge Transylvania, The Wedding ceremony Singer) delivers signature laughs on this coming-of-age animated musical comedy concerning the final 12 months of elementary college – as seen via the eyes of a category pet. Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo (Sandler) has been caught in the identical Florida classroom for many years together with his terrarium-mate turtle (Invoice Burr). So, when he learns he solely has one 12 months left to reside, he plans to flee to expertise life on the surface however as a substitute will get caught up within the issues of his anxious college students — together with an impossibly imply substitute instructor. It finally ends up being the strangest however most rewarding bucket record ever…
Robert Smigel, Robert Marianetti, and David Wachtenheim direct with Comfortable Madison producing.
Starring alongside Sandler is Burr; Cecily Sturdy; Jason Alexander; Rob Schneider; Sadie Sandler; Sunny Sandler; Jackie Sandler; Heidi Gardner; Nick Swardson; Nicholas Turturro; Smigel; Jo Koy; and Stephanie Hsu
Rooster Run: Daybreak of The Nugget – Coming Fall 2023
From award-winning Aardman (Creature Comforts, Wallace & Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep) and Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated director Sam Fell (ParaNorman and Flushed Away, respectively) comes Rooster Run: Daybreak of the Nugget, the sequel to the beloved stop-motion animated, Rooster Run.
Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has lastly discovered her dream — a peaceable island sanctuary for the entire flock, removed from the hazards of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little bit lady referred to as Molly, Ginger’s comfortable ending appears full. However again on the mainland, chicken-kind faces a brand new and horrible risk. For Ginger and her group, even when it means placing their very own hard-won freedom in danger — this time, they’re breaking in!
Fell directs from a narrative by Karey Kirkpatrick & John O’ Farrell, who additionally wrote the screenplay with Rachel Tunnard. Steve Pegram and Leyla Hobart produce, with Peter Lord; Nick Park; Carla Shelley; Paul Kewley; and Karey Kirkpatrick as govt producers.
The voice forged contains Thandiwe Newton; Zachary Levi; Bella Ramsey; Imelda Staunton; Lynn Ferguson; David Bradley; Jane Horrocks; Romesh Ranganathan; Daniel Mays; Josie Sedgwick-Davies; and Nick Mohammed.
In Your Goals – Coming in 2024
An ideal household? Siblings who get alongside? Yeah… in your desires. This comedy journey is about Stevie and her brother Elliot who magically journey into the world of desires – their mission is to search out “The Sandman,” who will grant them their final want, to avoid wasting their dad and mom’ marriage. The siblings, who’re whole opposites, uncover that so long as they’ve one another, they’ll face something, even their worst nightmare.
Alex Woo directs with Erik Benson as co-director. Gregg Taylor and Tim Hahn produce.
Saving Bikini Backside: The Sandy Cheeks Film
When Bikini Backside and all its denizens are all of a sudden scooped out of the ocean, Sandy Cheeks and SpongeBob SquarePants journey to Texas to avoid wasting the city from a villainous plot.
Based mostly on the SpongeBob SquarePants sequence created by Stephen Hillenburg, the movie is directed by Liza Johnson (The Final of Us, A Collection of Unlucky Occasions, Useless to Me) with the teleplay by Kaz and Tom Stern from a narrative by Kaz. Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller are govt producers, Piero Piluso is the animation supervisor, and the music is by Moniker. The music supervisor is Karyn Rachtman.
The forged contains Carolyn Lawrence; Tom Kenny; Wanda Sykes; Clancy Brown; Invoice Fagerbakke; Mr. Lawrence; Rodger Bumpass; Johnny Knoxville; Craig Robinson; Gray DeLisle; Ilia Isorelýs Paulino; and Matty Cardarople.
That Christmas – Coming in 2024
Based mostly on the kids’s ebook sequence by BAFTA winner and Academy Award nominee Richard Curtis (4 Weddings and a Funeral, Love Truly, Yesterday), Locksmith Animation’s heartwarming movie marks the function movie directorial debut of character animation and story artist veteran Simon Otto (Love, Demise & Robots, How you can Practice Your Dragon trilogy). That Christmas follows a sequence of entwined tales about love and loneliness, household and mates, and Santa Claus making an enormous mistake, to not point out an infinite variety of turkeys!
Nicole P. Hearon (Moana, Frozen) and Adam Tandy (The Thick of It, Detectorists) are producers, and Richard Curtis is the author.
Thelma The Unicorn – Coming in 2024
Thelma is a small-time pony who desires of turning into a glamourous music star. In a pink and glitter-filled second of destiny, she is reworked right into a unicorn and immediately rises to international stardom. However this new lifetime of fame comes at a price.
From administrators Lynn Wang (Unikitty!) and Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), and directed by Jared Hess and Lynn Wang, the movie is produced by Pam Coats.
Ultraman – Coming in 2024
Based mostly on the beloved Japanese character, the film follows baseball famous person Ken Sato as he returns to his dwelling nation of Japan to choose up the mantle of Earth-defending superhero Ultraman. He quickly finds greater than he bargained for when he’s pressured to boost the offspring of his best foe. Ken should go on a heroic journey, balancing parenthood, his estranged father, and the relentless Kaiju Protection Drive to rise past his ego and uncover what it really means to be Ultraman.
The movie is directed by Shannon Tindle (Misplaced Ollie) with John Aoshima as co-director. Tindle and Marc Haimes are writers. Tom Knott and Lisa Poole are producers. Tsuburaya Productions and Industrial Gentle and Magic (ILM) produced the film.
Supply: Netflix
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
