This is a list of productions from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation , previously known as Warner Animation Group, an American animation studio based in Burbank, California, United States.
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's upcoming slate of films includes The Cat in the Hat releasing in March 2026, Bad Fairies and Margie Claus (both in 2027), Oh, the Places You'll Go! and Dynamic Duo (both in 2028) and Toto and Meet the Flintstones , both without a release date. Twelve films are currently in development.
Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Executive Producer(s) | Composer(s) | Co-production with | Animation Service(s) | |
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Story | Screenplay | ||||||||
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The Lego Movie | February 7, 2014 | Phil Lord & 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 | Mark Mothersbaugh | Village Roadshow Pictures Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lin Pictures | Animal Logic |
Storks | September 23, 2016 | Nicholas Stoller & Doug Sweetland | Stoller | Brad Lewis & Stoller | Glenn Ficarra, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, John Requa, Jared Stern, & Steven Mnuchin | Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna | RatPac-Dune Entertainment Stoller Global Solutions (uncredited) | Sony Pictures Imageworks | |
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 | Lorne Balfe [1] | DC Entertainment RatPac-Dune Entertainment Lego System A/S Lord Miller Productions Vertigo Entertainment Lin Pictures | Animal Logic |
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 | Mark Mothersbaugh [2] | RatPac-Dune Entertainment Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lord Miller Productions Lin Pictures | |
Smallfoot | September 24, 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 | Heitor Pereira (score) K. & Wayne Kirkpatrick (songs) | Zaftig Films | Sony Pictures Imageworks |
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 | Mark Mothersbaugh (score) Jon Lajoie (songs) | Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lord Miller Productions Rideback | Animal Logic |
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 | Tom Holkenborg | 1492 Pictures (uncredited) | Reel FX Creative Studios |
Tom & Jerry | February 26, 2021 [6] | Tim Story | Kevin Costello | Christopher DeFaria | Story, Adam Goodman, Steven Harding, Sam Register, Jesse Ehrman, & Allison Abbate | Christopher Lennertz | The Story Company Turner Entertainment Co. | Framestore | |
Space Jam: A New Legacy | July 16, 2021 | Malcolm D. Lee | Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler, & Terence Nance | Taylor, Rettenmaier, Coogler, 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 | 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 |
DC League of Super-Pets | July 29, 2022 | Jared Stern Co-Director: Sam Levine | Stern & John Whittington | Patricia Hicks, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, & Stern | John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, Nicholas Stoller, Allison Abbate, Chris Leahy, Sharon Taylor, & Courtenay Valenti [9] | Steve Jablonsky | DC Entertainment Seven Bucks Productions | Animal Logic |
Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Executive Producer(s) | Composer(s) | Co-production with | Animation Service(s) | Production Status | |
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Story | Screenplay | |||||||||
Under Warner Bros. Pictures Animation | ||||||||||
The Cat in the Hat [10] [11] | March 6, 2026 [12] | Alessandro Carloni & Erica Rivinoja | Jared Stern & Daniela Mazzucato | Bill Hader & Susan Brandt | TBA | Dr. Seuss Enterprises A Stern Talking To | DNEG Animation | In production | ||
Thing One and Thing Two [11] | 2026 | TBA | Dr. Seuss Enterprises | TBA | ||||||
Bad Fairies [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] | July 23, 2027 [18] | Megan Nicole Dong [15] | Deborah Frances-White [15] | Mary Coleman and Carolyn Soper [15] | TBA | Isabella Summers (score) [17] Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (songs) [17] | Locksmith Animation Sketchshark Productions | DNEG Animation [17] | In production | |
Margie Claus [16] | November 5, 2027 | Shane Prigmore | Ben Falcone & Damon Jones | Melissa McCarthy, Falcone & Pilar Flynn | TBA | On the Day Productions | TBA | |||
Oh, the Places You'll Go! [11] | March 17, 2028 [19] | Jon M. Chu Co-Director: Jill Culton [20] | Rob Lieber [20] | J. J. Abrams & Gregg Taylor | Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (songs) [20] | Dr. Seuss Enterprises Bad Robot Productions | In development | |||
Dynamic Duo | June 30, 2028 | Arthur Mintz | Matthew Aldrich | James Gunn, Peter Safran, Matt Reeves, Lynn Harris & Theresa Andersson | Michael E. Uslan | TBA | DC Studios Swaybox 6th & Idaho | In production | ||
Coyote vs. Acme [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] | TBA | Dave Green | James Gunn, Jeremy Slater, & Samy Burch [21] | Burch | Christopher DeFaria & Gunn [21] | TBA | Steven Price [26] | Two Monkeys, a Goat, and Another, Dead, Monkey | DNEG Duncan Studio (2D animation) | Completed |
Toto [27] [28] | Alex Timbers | John August | Derek Frey [29] | Jared Stern | TBA | Turner Entertainment Co. | Animal Logic | In production |
Title | Notes |
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Emily the Strange | Co-production with Bad Robot [30] |
Funko [S] | [31] [32] |
The Ice Dragon | [33] |
The Jurassic League | Co-production with DC Studios [34] |
The Lunar Chronicles | Co-production with Legendary Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures and Locksmith Animation [15] |
Metal Men | Co-production with DC Entertainment [35] |
Meerkat Manor | Co-production with The Green Room and Oxford Scientific Films [36] |
Meet the Flintstones | [37] |
Untitled Looney Tunes film | [38] |
Untitled Tom and Jerry film | [39] |
Zero | Co-production with Imagine Entertainment [40] |
Untitled Bugs Bunny film | [41] |
Title | Description |
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Untitled Adventure Time film | A film based on the Cartoon Network animated series Adventure Time , with creator Pendleton Ward set to write and executive-produce, and Chris McKay and Roy Lee producing. Announced in February 2015, it would have been a collaboration between Warner Animation Group, Cartoon Network Studios, Vertigo Entertainment, and Frederator Films. However, on June 12, 2024, during the Annecy Animation Festival, it was announced that an Adventure Time movie was in development, with Rebecca Sugar, Adam Muto, and Patrick McHale all involved in the project. [42] |
The Billion Brick Race | A Lego Movie spin-off film announced in March 2015, with Jason Segel and Drew Pearce signed on to co-direct and write. Jorge R. Gutierrez had signed on as director in August 2017, with a release date of May 24, 2019. Cancelled after The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part underperformed at the box office and the franchise moved to Universal Pictures in 2019. |
Meet the Beatles | An animated musical film based on the Beatles announced in September 2015, with Paul King in talks to direct. |
Speedy Gonzales | In December 2015, it was reported that an animated film was in development at Warner Bros., under the working title Speedy. [43] In April 2016, it was announced that Eugenio Derbez would voice the character. [44] In April 2024, in an interview, Eugenio Derbez said that he doubts that the movie will happen saying “I feel that the studios are afraid that, nowadays, it's so politically incorrect. I've been telling them constantly that we love Speedy Gonzales in Mexico” [45] |
Fowl Road | Announced in February 2016, with Nicholas Stoller to direct. Would have been a take on the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke. |
Pepé Le Pew: The City of Lights | In 2016, Max Landis told San Diego Comic-Con that he was writing a Pepé Le Pew film. [46] The film’s script has been leaked online. [47] Artists has published concept art for the film. [48] [49] The movie was cancelled due to sexual assault allegations against Landis in 2017, and a report that the character has not yet been planned to appear in future Warner Bros. productions leaves the feature film in doubt. [50] |
Bone | Announced in November 2016; an animated adaptation to be produced by Lin Pictures and Animal Logic, with Mark Osborne set to direct. Netflix eventually picked it up as an animated series, but was later cancelled in April 2022 due to a reorganization of Netflix Animation. |
Lego Superfriends | Sequel to The Lego Batman Movie to be directed by Chris McKay. Cancelled after the Lego Movie franchise went to Universal in 2019 following the box office underperformance of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. |
Contagious and Emmet Amuck | Two additional Lego Movie shorts for theatrical distribution were in production alongside The Master in 2016: Contagious directed by Patrick Osbourne, and Emmet Amuck directed by Jon Saunders and Ross Evans. Both ultimately went unreleased. [51] [52] [53] |
That Christmas | A co-production with Locksmith Animation as part of a deal between Warner Animation Group and Locksmith. Later revealed as part of Netflix's slate of upcoming animated films in June 2022, as the film was transferred to the streaming service for unknown reasons. The movie was released on December 4, 2024 |
Scoob! Holiday Haunt | Prequel to Scoob! directed by Bill Haller and Michael Kurinsky, originally intended for release on HBO Max. Despite production being 95% complete, the film's release was cancelled after the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. to form Warner Bros. Discovery by CEO David Zaslav in August 2022. |
Title | Release date | Release with | Type of short |
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Enter the Ninjago | June 17, 2014 | The Lego Movie | Direct-to-video short |
The Lego Movie: 4D – A New Adventure | January 29, 2016 | 4D attraction | |
The Master | September 23, 2016 | Storks | Theatrical short |
Pigeon Toady's Guide to Your New Baby | December 6, 2016 | Direct-to-video short | |
Dark Hoser | June 13, 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | |
Batman is Just Not That Into You | |||
Cooking with Alfred | |||
Movie Sound Effects: How Do They Do That? | |||
Shark E. Shark in "Which Way to the Ocean?" | December 19, 2017 | The Lego Ninjago Movie | |
Zane's Stand Up Promo | |||
Turkish Airlines: Safety Video with The LEGO Movie Characters | August 1, 2018 | — | Internet short |
Emmet's Holiday Party | December 10, 2018 | Internet short and Direct-to-video short | |
Super Soozie | December 11, 2018 | Smallfoot | Direct-to-video short |
"Everything is Awesome" Dance Together Music Video | January 8, 2019 | — | Internet short |
Turkish Airlines: Safety Video with The LEGO Movie 2 Characters | March 1, 2019 |
Film | Critical | Public | |
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Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore | |
The Lego Movie | 96% (259 reviews) [54] | 83 (43 reviews) [55] | A [56] |
Storks | 65% (139 reviews) [57] | 56 (31 reviews) [58] | A− [59] |
The Lego Batman Movie | 90% (315 reviews) [60] | 75 (48 reviews) [61] | A− [56] |
The Lego Ninjago Movie | 56% (132 reviews) [62] | 55 (33 reviews) [63] | B+ [56] |
Smallfoot | 76% (129 reviews) [64] | 60 (25 reviews) [65] | A− [59] |
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | 84% (300 reviews) [66] | 65 (52 reviews) [67] | A− [56] |
Scoob! | 48% (152 reviews) [68] | 43 (33 reviews) [69] | — |
Tom & Jerry | 30% (130 reviews) [70] | 32 (20 reviews) [71] | A− [72] |
Space Jam: A New Legacy | 25% (229 reviews) [73] | 36 (46 reviews) [74] | A− [75] |
DC League of Super-Pets | 72% (150 reviews) [76] | 56 (28 reviews) [77] | A− [78] |
Film | Budget | North America | Overseas gross | Worldwide gross (unadjusted) | Ref. | |
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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 | [79] |
Storks | $70 million | $21,311,407 | $72,679,278 | $110,709,675 | $183,388,953 | [80] |
The Lego Batman Movie | $80 million | $53,003,468 | $175,750,384 | $136,200,000 | $311,950,384 | [81] |
The Lego Ninjago Movie | $70 million | $20,433,071 | $59,281,555 | $63,800,000 | $123,081,555 | [82] |
Smallfoot | $80 million | $23,045,635 | $83,240,103 | $130,800,000 | $214,040,103 | [83] |
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | $99 million | $34,115,335 | $105,956,290 | $93,646,912 | $199,603,202 | [84] |
Scoob! | $90 million | $850,000 | $2,188,425 | $26,370,740 | $28,559,165 | [85] |
Tom & Jerry | $79 million | $14,112,629 | $46,536,687 | $89,960,850 | $136,497,537 | [86] |
Space Jam: A New Legacy | $150 million | $31,053,362 | $70,592,228 | $93,100,000 | $163,692,228 | [87] |
DC League of Super-Pets | $90 million | $23,000,000 | $93,657,117 | $113,900,000 | $207,557,117 | [88] |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Original Song | "Everything Is Awesome" written and lyrics by Shawn Patterson | Nominated | [89] |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Animated Film | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | Won | [94] |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Animated Feature | The Lego Movie | Won | [95] |
Best Song | "Everything Is Awesome" | Nominated |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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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 | |||
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Motion Picture Animated or Mixed Media | The Lego Movie | Nominated | [96] |
Best Original Screenplay | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | Nominated | |||
Best Original Song | "Everything Is Awesome" | Nominated | |||
2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | The Lego Batman Movie | Nominated | [97] |
Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Animated Film | The Lego Movie | Won | [98] |