Warner Bros. Animation is the animation subsidary of Warner Bros. Pictures that has produced such successful franchises as Looney Tunes, Batman, Superman and others. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Looney Tunes: Back in Action The Bugs Bunny Show Batman: the Animated Series Superman: the Animated Series The Looney Tunes Show A Miser Broters' Christmas Bah Humduck: a Looney Tunes Christmas Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman Tweety's High Flying Adventure Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Countless Tom and Jerry entries Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected.CGIFeature Film ‘Storks’ Trailer Reveals Plenty of New Characters In a year crowded with an unusually large number of animated features starring animals, Warner Bros. has its work cut out with its new film Storks, which will launch in the U.S. on September 23.
Extensive clips from the film were shown publicly for the first time in Annecy last week, and this new trailer was released around the same time: Co-directed by Pixar veteran Doug Sweetland (Presto) and Nicholas Stoller (director of Neighbors, Get Him to the Greek, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall), the latter of whom also wrote the script, Storks is a modern-day twist on the mythologic concept of storks delivering babies. Art and animation in the trailer look solid if uninspired, but the trailer does little to make a viewer interested in the idea or the characters. Not going to be harsh on the film itself, because one never knows if it’s simply bad editing on the studio’s part or something else, but this is a weak trailer that can’t decide what kind of a film it’s selling. The humor is perplexing and all over the map, and whoever decided that it was a good idea to introduce around 20 characters in a two-and-a-half-minute promo is nuts. Working in Storks’ favor is its September launch date.
September has been a good slot for Sony, and in the past few years they’ve successfully launched Hotel Transylvania 2 and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 during that month. Warner Bros. might be able to do the same with Storks, especially with no other major studio animation releases during the month this year. Looking past Storks, Warner Animation Group [WAG], which is being run by a creative ‘think tank’, is ramping up their feature animation program in a big way. They’ve got at least five other films in the pipeline including The Lego Batman Movie (February 10, 2017); Lego Ninjago (September 22, 2017); Smallfoot (spring 2018), a flip on the mythological Yeti, in which the creature becomes convinced that humans exist; The Lego Movie Sequel; and the Hanna-Barbera reboot S.C.O.O.B.. The goal of WAG is “to borrow on Warner Bros. legacy and its history of animation and also on their tone and feel,” Christopher deFaria, Warner Bros. Pictures’ president of animation, digital production, and vfx, is quoted as saying in Variety.
“That was the biggest accomplishment of The Lego Movie. It felt like a Warner Bros. movie, distilling and channeling Looney Tunes and the sensibility the studio was famous for. It gives us a place to distinguish ourselves in what is otherwise a very crowded marketplace of incredible quality films.” The Lego Movie Sequel is an upcoming computer-animated movie [2] and a sequel to the 2014 film The Lego Movie. It will be the fourth film in the franchise, set to follow the releases of both of the first film's spin-off films, The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie set to be released in 2017. It is being directed by Mike Mitchell,[1] with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, writers and directors of the first film, returning as producers and co-writers. After it became clear that the first film would become a blockbuster success, a sequel was already in the works even before its release. However, Warner Bros. did not invite Village Roadshow Pictures, the first film's Australian production partner, to participate in the making of the sequel.
The film is set to be released on February 8, 2019 in 2D, 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D through Warner Bros. Pictures. To date, there has been no indication as to whether any cast members from the original film, such as Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman, will reprise their roles in the sequel. Even before the critical acclaim and blockbuster success of The Lego Movie, plans for a sequel had already been set in motion. On February 3, 2014, Jared Stern was hired to write the sequel, along with Michelle Morgan.[3] On March 12, 2014, Deadline reported that animation co-director Chris McKay will direct the sequel with Lord and Miller as producers.[4] Warner Bros. did not invite co-producer Village Roadshow Pictures to return as a participant in the sequel.[5] On April 10, 2014, it was reported that McKay wanted to have more women in the sequel than men.[6] On July 28, 2014, it was reported that Chris Pratt wants to return to reprise his role as Emmet.
It was also reported that Will Arnett might return to reprise his role as Batman, but has not decided yet.[7] However, he has reprised his role as Batman in The Lego Batman Movie. In October 2014, Warner Bros. scheduled The Lego Batman Movie for 2017, and The Lego Movie 2 for 2018.[9] On October 25, 2014, it was reported that Lord and Miller had signed on to write The Lego Movie 2.[10] On October 30, it was announced that Australia-based animation studio Animal Logic was in talks to produce the next three Lego films (though the deal was not finalized at the time) and the New South Wales government would make financial contributions to all the films.[11] On November 12, during an interview with BBC News, Lord and Miller revealed that there would be more female characters featuring in the film. On February 24, 2015, the sequel was officially titled The Lego Movie Sequel and Rob Schrab was officially announced as the film's director, replacing McKay as director as he was scheduled to direct The Lego Batman Movie instead.