List of Warner Animation Group productions
This is a list of productions from the Warner Animation Group, an American animation studio based in Burbank, California, United States. As of 2021, Warner Animation Group has released 9 feature films, which were all released under the Warner Bros. Pictures banner. The company produced its first feature-length film, The Lego Movie, in 2014. Their second production, Storks, was released in 2016, followed by their first spin-off, The Lego Batman Movie, followed in 2017. Warner Animation Group had two releases in a single year twice: The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie followed in 2018, they released Smallfoot, followed in 2019, they released The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, followed in 2020, they released Scoob!, and followed in 2021, they released Tom & Jerry, and Space Jam: A New Legacy.
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Warner Animation Group's upcoming slate of films includes DC League of Super-Pets and Scoob! Holiday Haunt (both 2022), Toto (2024), and Coyote vs. Acme (TBA).
Feature films
Released
# | Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Executive Producer(s) | Editor(s) | Composer(s) | Co-production with | Animation Services | |
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Story | Screenplay | ||||||||||
1 | The Lego Movie | February 7, 2014 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | Dan, Kevin Hageman, Lord, & Miller | Lord & Miller | Dan Lin & Roy Lee | Jill Wilfert, Matthew Ashton, Kathleen Fleming, Allison Abbate, Zareh Nalbandian, Jon Burton, Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Seanne Winslow, James Packer, Steven Mnuchin, Matt Skiena, & Bruce Berman | David Burrows & Chris McKay | Mark Mothersbaugh | Village Roadshow Pictures Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lin Pictures |
Animal Logic |
2 | Storks | September 23, 2016 | Nicholas Stoller & Doug Sweetland | Stoller | Brad Lewis & Stoller | Glenn Ficarra, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, John Requa, Jared Stern, & Steven Mnuchin | John Venzon | Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna | RatPac-Dune Entertainment Stoller Global Solutions (uncredited) |
Sony Pictures Imageworks | |
3 | The Lego Batman Movie | February 10, 2017 | Chris McKay | Seth Grahame-Smith | Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern, & John Whittington | Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, & Roy Lee | Jill Wilfert, Matthew Ashton, Will Allegra, Brad Lewis, Zareh Nalbandian, & Steven Mnuchin | David Burrows, Matt Villa & John Venzon | Lorne Balfe[1] | DC Entertainment RatPac-Dune Entertainment Lego System A/S Lord Miller Productions Vertigo Entertainment Lin Pictures |
Animal Logic |
4 | The Lego Ninjago Movie | September 22, 2017 | Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher, & Bob Logan | Hilary Winston, Logan, Fisher, William, Tom Wheeler, Dan & Kevin Hageman | Logan, Fisher, W., T. Wheeler, Jared Stern, & John Whittington | Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Chris McKay, Maryann Garger, & Roy Lee | Jill Wilfert, Keith Malone, Simon Lucas, Chris Leahy, Seth Grahame-Smith, Zareh Nalbandian, & Brett Ratner | Julie Rogers, Garret Elkins, Ryan Folsey, John Venzon, David Burrows | Mark Mothersbaugh[2] | RatPac-Dune Entertainment Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lord Miller Productions Lin Pictures | |
5 | Smallfoot | September 28, 2018 | Karey Kirkpatrick Co-Director: Jason Reisig |
Story by : John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, & Kirkpatrick Original story by : Sergio Pablos |
Kirkpatrick, & Clare Sera | Bonne Radford, Ficarra, & Requa | Nicholas Stoller, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Jared Stern, Kirkpatrick, Pablos, Courtenay Valenti, & Allison Abbate | Peter Ettinger | Heitor Pereira (score) K. and Wayne Kirkpatrick (songs) |
Zaftig Films | Sony Pictures Imageworks |
6 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | February 8, 2019 | Mike Mitchell | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, & Matthew Fogel | Lord & Miller | Dan Lin, Lord, Miller, Roy Lee, & Jinko Gotoh | Jill Wilfert, Keith Malone, Matthew Ashton, Chris McKay, Zareh Nalbandian, Ryan Halprin, Will Allegra, & Chris Leahy | Clare Knight | Mark Mothersbaugh | Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lord Miller Productions Rideback |
Animal Logic |
7 | Scoob! | May 15, 2020[nb 1] | Tony Cervone | Matt Lieberman, Eyal Podell & Jonathon E. Stewart | Adam Sztykiel, Jack Donaldson, Derek Elliott & Lieberman | Pam Coats & Allison Abbate | Sztykiel, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Jesse Ehrman, Dan Povenmire, & Chris Columbus | Ryan Folsey & Vanara Taing | Tom Holkenborg | N/A | Reel FX Creative Studios |
8 | Tom & Jerry | February 26, 2021[6] | Tim Story | Kevin Costello | Christopher DeFaria | Story, Adam Goodman, Steven Harding, Sam Register, Jesse Ehrman, & Allison Abbate | Peter S. Elliot | Christopher Lennertz | Turner Entertainment (uncredited) The Story Company |
Framestore | |
9 | Space Jam: A New Legacy | July 16, 2021 | Malcolm D. Lee | Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler & Terence Nance | Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler, Terence Nance, Jesse Gordon & Celeste Ballard[7] | Ryan Coogler, LeBron James, Maverick Carter & Duncan Henderson | Sev Ohanian, Zinzi Coogler, Allison Abbate, Jesse Ehrman, Jamal Henderson, Spencer Beighley, Justin Lin, Nance, & Ivan Reitman | Bob Ducsay | Kris Bowers | Proximity Media SpringHill Company |
Industrial Light & Magic Luma Pictures Cinesite[8] Company 3 Animation Tonic DNA House of Moves Day For Nite Studio D Virtuos |
- Released on Premium VOD in the United States and Canada on this date,[3] and later released in theaters in select countries with relaxed COVID-19 restrictions beginning July 8, 2020.[4][5]
Upcoming
# | Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Executive Producer(s) | Editor(s) | Composer(s) | Co-production with | Animation Services | |
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Story | Screenplay | ||||||||||
10 | DC League of Super-Pets | July 29, 2022 | Jared Stern Co-Director: Sam Levine |
Stern and John Whittington | Patricia Hicks, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia and Stern | John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, Nicholas Stoller, Allison Abbate, Chris Leahy, Sharon Taylor and Courtenay Valenti[9] | David Egan & Jhoanne Reyes | Steve Jablonsky | DC Entertainment Seven Bucks Productions |
Animal Logic | |
11 | Scoob! Holiday Haunt | 2022[10] | Michael Kurinsky & Bill Haller | Paul Dini and Tony Cervone | Cervone and Mitchell Ferm | Allison Abbate | TBA | N/A | Reel FX Creative Studios | ||
12 | Toto | February 2, 2024[11] | Alex Timbers | John August | Derek Frey | TBA | Animal Logic | ||||
13 | Coyote vs. Acme | TBA[12][13] | Dave Green | Samy Burch, Jon & Josh Silberman, Jeremy Slater, and James Gunn[12] | Chris DeFaria and Gunn[12] | Two Monkeys, A Goat and Another, Dead, Monkey | DNEG |
Films in development
Title | Notes |
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The Cat in the Hat | co-production with Dr. Seuss Enterprises[14] |
Thing One and Thing Two | |
Oh, the Places You'll Go! | co-production with Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Bad Robot Productions[15] |
The Flintstones | [16] |
Funko[S] | [17][18] |
The Ice Dragon | [19] |
Wacky Races | [16] |
Zero | Co-production with Imagine Entertainment[20] |
That Christmas | Co-production with Locksmith Animation[21][22][23] |
Untitled Locksmith Animation original musical-comedy film | |
Wed Wabbit[S] | |
Untitled Scoob! sequel | [24] |
Untitled third Space Jam film[S] | [25] |
Metal Men | Co-production with DC Entertainment[26] |
Short films
# | Title | Release date | Type of short |
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1 | Enter the Ninjago | June 17, 2014 | Direct-to-video short |
2 | The Lego Movie: 4D - A New Adventure | January 29, 2016 | 4D attraction |
3 | The Master | September 23, 2016 | Theatrical short |
4 | Pigeon Toady's Guide to Your New Baby | December 6, 2016 | Direct-to-video short |
5 | Dark Hoser | June 13, 2017 | |
6 | Batman is Just Not That Into You | ||
7 | Cooking with Alfred | ||
8 | Movie Sound Effects: How Do They Do That? | ||
9 | Shark E. Shark in "Which Way to the Ocean?" | December 19, 2017 | |
10 | Zane's Stand Up Promo | ||
11 | Turkish Airlines: Safety Video with The LEGO Movie Characters | August 1, 2018 | Internet short |
12 | Emmet's Holiday Party | December 10, 2018 | |
13 | Super Soozie | December 11, 2018 | Direct-to-video short |
14 | "Everything is Awesome" Dance Together Music Video | January 8, 2019 | Internet short |
Reception
Critical and public reception
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore[27] |
---|---|---|---|
The Lego Movie | 96%[28] | 83/100[29] | A |
Storks | 66%[30] | 56/100[31] | A− |
The Lego Batman Movie | 90%[32] | 75/100[33] | |
The Lego Ninjago Movie | 56%[34] | 55/100[35] | B+ |
Smallfoot | 76%[36] | 60/100[37] | A− |
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | 84%[38] | 65/100[39] | |
Scoob! | 48%[40] | 43/100[41] | N/A |
Tom & Jerry | 31%[42] | 32/100[43] | A− |
Space Jam: A New Legacy | 26%[44] | 36/100[45] |
Box office performance
Film | Budget | North America | Overseas
gross |
Worldwide gross (unadjusted) | Ref(s) | |
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Opening | Gross (unadjusted) | |||||
The Lego Movie | $60–65 million | $69,050,279 | $257,760,692 | $210,300,000 | $468,060,692 | [46] |
Storks | $70 million | $21,311,407 | $72,679,278 | $110,709,675 | $183,388,953 | [47] |
The Lego Batman Movie | $80 million | $53,003,468 | $175,750,384 | $136,200,000 | $311,950,384 | [48] |
The Lego Ninjago Movie | $70 million | $20,433,071 | $59,281,555 | $63,800,000 | $123,081,555 | [49] |
Smallfoot | $80 million | $23,045,635 | $83,240,103 | $130,800,000 | $214,040,103 | [50] |
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | $99 million | $34,115,335 | $105,806,508 | $86,500,000 | $192,456,290 | [51] |
Scoob! | $90 million | $850,000 | $2,188,425 | $24,900,000 | $27,088,425 | [52] |
Tom & Jerry | $79 million | $14,112,629 | $46,536,687 | $86,800,000 | $133,336,687 | [53] |
Space Jam: A New Legacy | $150 million | $31,053,362 | $70,592,228 | $92,300,000 | $162,892,228 | [54] |
Accolades
Academy Awards
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Original Song | "Everything Is Awesome" written and lyrics by Shawn Patterson | Nominated |
Golden Raspberry Awards
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Tom & Jerry | Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | Nominated | |
Worst Screen Combo | Tom & Jerry (aka Itchy & Scratchy) | Nominated | ||
Space Jam: A New Legacy | Worst Picture | Maverick Carter, Ryan Coogler, Duncan Henderson, and LeBron James | Nominated | |
Worst Actor | LeBron James as Himself | Won | ||
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | Won | |||
Worst Screen Combo | LeBron James & any Warner cartoon character (or Time-Warner product) he dribbles on | Won | ||
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