Warner Bros. Movement Image Group Indicators First-Look Cope with Locksmith Animation

Warner Bros. Movement Image Group has signed a first-look take care of Locksmith Animation to develop and produce animated options, as introduced by Mike De Luca and Pamela Abdy, Co-Chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Movement Image Group, Invoice Damaschke, new President of Warner Bros. Footage Animation, and Natalie Fischer, CEO of Locksmith Animation.

Below the phrases of the pact, the Locksmith group – led by Julie Lockhart, Founder & President of Manufacturing, and Mary Coleman, Chief Inventive Officer – will work intently with Damaschke and his group at WBPA to advance a recent, modern method to Warner Bros.’ globally beloved legacy IP whereas additionally creating and producing unique options, starting with Unhealthy Fairies and The Lunar Chronicles.

“Animation is deeply ingrained in Warner Bros.’ inventive DNA, so we’re actually excited to dive in with the group at Locksmith, who convey a recent sensibility and aesthetic to this seminal artwork kind,” stated De Luca and Abdy.

Damaschke added, “The artists and storytellers at Locksmith Animation are among the many most impressed and creative within the trade. I’m trying ahead to working with them on an array of initiatives – starting with Unhealthy Fairies and The Lunar Chronicles – and drawing on the unparalleled assets right here at Warner Bros., in addition to unique tales dreamed up by their outstanding inventive group.”

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with the visionary group at Warner Bros. to create franchises that can entertain and transfer household audiences worldwide,” stated Fischer. “With a celebrated historical past in animation and a dedication to the theatrical expertise, Warner Bros. is the right dwelling for us.”

The primary of Locksmith’s properties being developed below the brand new deal, Unhealthy Fairies, is a subversive musical comedy set in up to date London, specializing in a badass gang of fairies who break each rule within the e-book. Deborah Frances-White, creator and host of common podcast The Responsible Feminist, will pen the screenplay. Megan Nicole Dong (Centaurworld) is hooked up to direct.

The second challenge, The Lunar Chronicles, a sci-fi twist on Grimms’ Fairy Tales, relies on Marissa Meyer’s best-selling novels. The movie facilities on 4 younger girls who launch a riot towards the tyrannical Queen of the moon and soar by way of the celebs whereas combating to take cost of their very own destinies. Kalen Egan & Travis Sentell, writers on the Amazon collection Electrical Goals, are hooked up to put in writing, with Noëlle Raffaele (DC Superhero Women, The Lego Ninjago Film, The Marvels) set to direct.

Locksmith Animation is an impartial producer of high-quality animated options and collection. Based mostly in London and L.A., Locksmith is a worldwide firm that brings collectively a group of skilled trade leaders and world-class inventive expertise in a filmmaker-led studio.

Locksmith Animation’s first function movie, Ron’s Gone Fallacious, was launched theatrically and on Disney+ to crucial acclaim in 2021. Locksmith is at the moment in manufacturing on its second function movie, That Christmas, written by Richard Curtis (Love, Truly, 4 Weddings And A Funeral), to be launched on Netflix. Locksmith Animation is a part of the SISTER group of firms, based by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone.

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