**Key Points:**
🔵 A combined Paramount and Warner Bros. studio will need to bolster its animation slate to compete at the box office.
🔵 In the last decade Paramount and Warner Bros. have each released eight animated features, meanwhile Disney has released 21 and Universal has launched 23.
🔵 In the last two years, family-friendly fare with a PG rating has won at the box office, outperforming PG-13 and R rated films.
by AGOTFAN
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Oh, WB
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Three words: Lola Bunny movie /s
This is not going to happen
Paramount has moved thier big animated film to P+ whiles WB tax wrote most of there animation library away
They better PRAY The Cat in the Hat does numbers
Neither Paramount nor Warner Bros care about animation. Just look at how they’ve treated *Avatar: Aang, the Last Airbender* and the likes of *The Day The Earth Blew Up*, respectively.
They’re going to need a lot of everything and a miracle
I can’t see this working out at all.
Most of Paramount’s 2020s animated slate got dumped onto Paramount+ and the few that did get theatrical releases (Transformers One, Smurfs and SpongeBob 4) didn’t do that great financially. I don’t count the PAW Patrol movies because Paramount only has the distribution rights, as they aren’t even front and center in terms of production for these films. But still, not great results. And ever since Paramount Animation was founded, they only had one true box-office success and that was eleven years ago.
Even though WB had a good track record with their theatrical animation division, they took a long break after the WBD merger and while on the way, they scrapped Scoob! Holiday Haunt and originally Coyote vs. Acme (which had DC head James Gunn involved) before Ketchup acquired it. Backlash was so bad for the latter when it got cancelled that it was put on the market for distributors. They have since made a comeback with Cat in the Hat coming in November and more coming up through the rest of the decade. But if the merger is even closed, Bill Damaschke will probably step down as he and Ellison never got along well when the former was running Skydance’s animation unit before the John Lasseter hire.
Yeah that is not going to happen these two are not animation theatrical power houses and we already have 5 studios which is enough for the market.
What these two need to do is do what the others aren’t and not try to copy them.
Yeah no this isn’t happening, Considering how Paramount treated TF One and the Marketing for that movie and the fact that WB hasn’t had a good popular well-received movie since the Lego Batman movie, dont expect it (Disney, Universal and Sony, maybe even Netflix would be the big 4 for animation)Â
WB has Cat in the Hat, Bad Fairies and Margie Claus coming out in 2026 and 2027 plus Dynamic Duo for 2028, Paramount has Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2 and The Angry Birds Movie 3 for 2026 and 2027.
So they’re getting a little bit better at releasing a consistent amount of animated movies.