Netflix is expanding its already impressive roster of animated projects with new films including Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and K-Pop: Demon Hunters. The streamer’s also introducing new animated series including Terminator Zero, Twilight of the Gods, and Exploding Kittens.
Anime fans can look forward to the new series Tokyo Override and Leviathan, as well as the films Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie and My Oni Girl. According to Netflix, its anime programming is incredibly popular and pulled in more than one billion views last year.
Netflix’s family programming includes Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season two, Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, Motel Transylvania, Wolf King, Ghostbusters, and Minecraft.
Netflix’s Animated Films Lineup:
Ultraman: Rising – JUNE 14, 2024
With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle of Ultraman. But the titanic superhero meets his match when he reluctantly adopts a 35-foot-tall, fire-breathing baby kaiju. Sato must rise above his ego to balance work and parenthood while protecting the baby from forces bent on exploiting her for their own dark plans.
The Imaginary – JULY 5, 2024
Studio Ponoc’s The Imaginary portrays the depths of humanity and creativity through the eyes of young Amanda and her imaginary companion, Rudger, a boy no one can see imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger, suddenly alone, arrives at The Town of Imaginaries, where forgotten Imaginaries live and find work, he faces a mysterious threat. Directed by renowned animator Yoshiyuki Momose (Spirited Away), The Imaginary is an unforgettable adventure of love, loss, and the healing power of imagination.
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie – AUG. 2, 2024
When Bikini Bottom and all its denizens are suddenly scooped out of the ocean, Sandy Cheeks and SpongeBob SquarePants journey to Texas to save the town from a villainous plot.
Spellbound – NOV. 22, 2024
Spellbound follows the adventures of Ellian, the tenacious young daughter of the rulers of Lumbria who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters.
That Christmas – DECEMBER 2024
Based on the charming trilogy of children’s books by beloved award-winning writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually), That Christmas follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a big mistake. Also featured: an enormous number of turkeys!
In Your Dreams – 2025
In Your Dreams is a comedy adventure about 12-year-old Stevie and her little brother, 8-year-old Elliot, who journey into the absurd landscape of their own dreams. If the siblings can withstand a snarky stuffed giraffe, zombie breakfast foods, and the queen of nightmares, the Sandman will grant them their ultimate dream come true … the perfect family.
K-POP: DEMON HUNTERS (Working Title) – 2025
K-Pop: Demon Hunters is a musical action adventure that follows the story of a world-renowned K-pop girl group, as its members balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as badass demon hunters. It’s all set against a colorful backdrop of fashion, food, style, and the most popular music movement of this generation.
Plankton: The Movie – 2025
Plankton’s world is flipped upside down when his plan for world domination is thwarted. Based on the series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by Stephen Hillenburg.
Pookoo – 2025
Pookoo is a buddy comedy about a small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of The Valley, who set off on the adventure of a lifetime.
The Twits – 2025
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits’ beloved tricks –– from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times, about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – THIS WINTER
Aardman’s four-time Academy Award–winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award–nominated Merlin Crossingham return with a brand-new epic adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. In this next installment, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master … or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
Adult Animated Series
Exploding Kittens – JULY 12, 2024
Earth sucks, so God (Tom Ellis) gets fired and sent to Earth to reconnect with humanity. The catch? He’s trapped in the body of a chubby house cat. As part of his rehabilitation, he moves in with a dysfunctional family and tries to solve their problems, but ends up spending a lot of time chasing laser pointers. And to top it off, Godcat’s next-door neighbor, who is also a cat, turns out to be none other than his nemesis, the Antichrist. The result is the ultimate fight between good versus evil … except, Godcat (Ellis) is distracted by a pigeon he saw in the yard and Devilcat (Sasheer Zamata) is busy napping on someone’s laptop.
Terminator Zero – AUG. 29, 2024
2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity. Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.
Twilight of the Gods – FALL 2024
The animated series brings Zack Snyder’s daring and spectacular vision of ancient Norse mythology to life, and features the voices of Sylvia Hoeks, Stuart Martin, Pilou Asbaek, John Noble, Paterson Joseph, Rahul Kohli, Jamie Clayton, Kristopher Hivju, Peter Stormare, Jamie Chung, Lauren Cohan, and Corey Stoll, among others.
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft – OCT. 10, 2024
The animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft picks up after the events of the highly successful Tomb Raider video game Survivor trilogy (Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider), and will chart the globe-trotting heroine’s next chapter as the iconic adventurer. More than 25 years after her first appearance, Lara Croft (voiced by Hayley Atwell) continues to explore ancient mysteries and uncover lost truths across breathtaking and dangerous destinations.
Big Mouth Season 8 (Final Season) – 2025
Big Mouth is the critically acclaimed and Emmy-winning adult animated comedy about the glorious nightmare that is puberty. Inspired by Kroll and Goldberg’s childhoods, it follows a group of friends and their hormone monsters as they navigate adolescence, human sexuality, and coming of age. The final season, which will air in 2025, will make Big Mouth the longest running series in Netflix history, outside of Kids and Family programming.
The Undervale – COMING SOON
A single mother of two struggles to run a haunted hotel with the help of her estranged brother, who is now one of the ghosts haunting the hotel and thinks the other ghosts have some pretty good ideas.
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