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. As of, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation has released 10 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 Bros. Pictures Animation 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 , followed in 2020, they released Scoob!, followed in 2021, they released Tom & Jerry and , and followed in 2022, they released DC League of Super-Pets.
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's upcoming slate of films includes The Cat in the Hat, Thing One and Thing Two (both 2026), Bad Fairies, Margie Claus, Oh, the Places You'll Go! (all 2027), and Toto and Meet the Flintstones, both without a release date.
Eight films are currently in development.
| Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Composer(s) | Co-production with | Animation Services | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story | Screenplay | ||||||||
| Under Warner Animation Group | |||||||||
| The Lego Movie | Phil Lord & Christopher Miller | Dan, Kevin Hageman, Lord, & Miller | Lord & Miller | Dan Lin & Roy Lee | Mark Mothersbaugh | Village Roadshow Pictures Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lin Pictures | Animal Logic | ||
| Storks | Nicholas Stoller & Doug Sweetland | Stoller | Brad Lewis & Stoller | Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna | RatPac-Dune Entertainment Stoller Global Solutions (uncredited) | Sony Pictures Imageworks | |||
| The Lego Batman Movie | Chris McKay | Seth Grahame-Smith | Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern, & John Whittington | Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, & Roy Lee | 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 | 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 | Mark Mothersbaugh[2] | RatPac-Dune Entertainment Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lord Miller Productions Lin Pictures | |||
| Smallfoot | Karey Kirkpatrick Jason Reisig | Kirkpatrick & Clare Sera | Bonne Radford, Ficarra, & Requa | Heitor Pereira (score)----K. & Wayne Kirkpatrick (songs) | Zaftig Films | Sony Pictures Imageworks | |||
| Mike Mitchell | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, & Matthew Fogel | Lord & Miller | Dan Lin, Lord, Miller, Roy Lee, & Jinko Gotoh | Mark Mothersbaugh (score)----Jon Lajoie (songs) | Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment Lord Miller Productions Rideback | Animal Logic | |||
| Scoob! | Tony Cervone | Matt Lieberman, Eyal Podell & Jonathon E. Stewart | Adam Sztykiel, Jack Donaldson, Derek Elliott & Lieberman | Pam Coats & Allison Abbate | Tom Holkenborg | 1492 Pictures (uncredited) | Reel FX Creative Studios | ||
| Tom & Jerry | [3] | Tim Story | Kevin Costello | Christopher DeFaria | Christopher Lennertz | The Story Company Turner Entertainment Co. | Framestore | ||
| Malcolm D. Lee | Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler, & Terence Nance | Taylor, Rettenmaier, Coogler, Nance, Jesse Gordon, & Celeste Ballard[4] | Ryan Coogler, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, & Duncan Henderson | Kris Bowers | Proximity Media SpringHill Company | Industrial Light & Magic Luma Pictures Cinesite[5] Company 3 Animation Tonic DNA House of Moves Day For Nite Studio D Virtuos | |||
| DC League of Super-Pets | Jared Stern Sam Levine | Stern & John Whittington | Patricia Hicks, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, & Stern | Steve Jablonsky | DC Entertainment Seven Bucks Productions | Animal Logic | |||
| Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Composer(s) | Co-production with | Animation Services | Production Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story | Screenplay | |||||||||
| Coyote vs. Acme[6] [7] [8] [9] < | -- This film was initially shelved by Warner Bros., but its cancellation was reversed due to backlash, and will be released by another distributor. Do not remove. --> | Dave Green | James Gunn, Jeremy Slater, & Samy Burch | Burch | Christopher DeFaria & Gunn | Steven Price[10] | Two Monkeys, a Goat, and Another, Dead, Monkey | DNEG Duncan Studio (2D animation) | Completed | |
| Under Warner Bros. Pictures Animation | ||||||||||
| The Cat in the Hat[11] [12] | [13] | Alessandro Carloni & Erica Rivinoja | Jared Stern & Daniela Mazzucato | Dr. Seuss Enterprises | DNEG Animation | Pre-production | ||||
| Thing One and Thing Two | 2026 | In development | ||||||||
| Bad Fairies[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] | [19] | Megan Nicole Dong | Deborah Frances-White | Carolyn Soper | Isabella Summers (score)----Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss (songs) | Locksmith Animation | DNEG Animation | |||
| Margie Claus | Ben Falcone & Damon Jones | Melissa McCarthy, Falcone & Pilar Flynn | On the Day Productions | rowspan="2" | ||||||
| Oh, the Places You'll Go! | 2027 | Jon M. Chu Jill Culton[20] | Rob Lieber | J. J. Abrams & Hannah Minghella | Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (songs) | Dr. Seuss Enterprises Bad Robot Productions | ||||
| Toto[21] [22] | Alex Timbers | John August | Derek Frey[23] | Turner Entertainment Co. | Animal Logic | |||||
| Meet the Flintstones[24] | Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic | colspan="5" | ||||||||
| Title | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Funko | [25] [26] | |
| The Ice Dragon | [27] | |
| The Jurassic League | Co production with DC Studios[28] | |
| The Lunar Chronicles | Co-production with Locksmith Animation | |
| Meerkat Manor | Co-production with The Green Room, Oxford Scientific Films and ITV Studios[29] | |
| Wed Wabbit | Co-production with Locksmith Animation[30] | |
| Zero | Co-production with Imagine Entertainment[31] | |
| Potential Batman Beyond film |
See also: List of unproduced Warner Bros. Animation projects.
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| That Christmas | A co-production with Locksmith Animation as part of a deal between Warner Bros. Pictures Animation 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. |
| Scoob! Holiday Haunt | Prequel to Scoob! directed by Paul Dini and to be released on HBO Max. Despite production being 95% complete, the film was cancelled after the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. to form Warner Bros. Discovery by CEO David Zaslav in August 2022. |
| width=330 | Title | width=150 | Release date | width=150 | Release with | width=120 | Type of short |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enter the Ninjago | The Lego Movie | Direct-to-video short | |||||
| 4D attraction | |||||||
| The Master | Storks | Theatrical short | |||||
| Pigeon Toady's Guide to Your New Baby | Direct-to-video short | ||||||
| Dark Hoser | 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?" | The Lego Ninjago Movie | ||||||
| Zane's Stand Up Promo | |||||||
| Turkish Airlines: Safety Video with The LEGO Movie Characters | Internet short | ||||||
| Emmet's Holiday Party | Internet short and Direct-to-video short | ||||||
| Super Soozie | Smallfoot | Direct-to-video short | |||||
| "Everything is Awesome" Dance Together Music Video | Internet short | ||||||
| Turkish Airlines: Safety Video with The LEGO Movie 2 Characters | |||||||
| Critical | Public | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore | ||
| Storks | 65% (139 reviews)[32] | 56 (31 reviews)[33] | ||
| Smallfoot | 76% (129 reviews)[34] | 60 (25 reviews)[35] | [36] | |
| Scoob! | 48% (152 reviews)[37] | 43 (33 reviews)[38] | ||
| Tom & Jerry | 30% (130 reviews)[39] | 32 (20 reviews)[40] | [41] | |
| Space Jam: A New Legacy | 25% (229 reviews)[42] | 36 (46 reviews)[43] | [44] | |
| DC League of Super-Pets | 72% (150 reviews)[45] | 56 (28 reviews)[46] | [47] |
| Film | Budget | North America | Overseas gross | Worldwide gross (unadjusted) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening | Gross (unadjusted) | ||||||
| The Lego Movie | $60–65 million | $69,050,279 | $257,760,692 | $210,300,000 | $468,060,692 | [48] | |
| Storks | $70 million | $21,311,407 | $72,679,278 | $110,709,675 | $183,388,953 | [49] | |
| The Lego Batman Movie | $80 million | $53,003,468 | $175,750,384 | $136,200,000 | $311,950,384 | [50] | |
| The Lego Ninjago Movie | $70 million | $20,433,071 | $59,281,555 | $63,800,000 | $123,081,555 | [51] | |
| Smallfoot | $80 million | $23,045,635 | $83,240,103 | $130,800,000 | $214,040,103 | [52] | |
| The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | $99 million | $34,115,335 | $105,956,290 | $93,646,912 | $199,603,202 | [53] | |
| Scoob | $90 million | $850,000 | $2,188,425 | $26,370,740 | $28,559,165 | [54] | |
| Tom & Jerry | $79 million | $14,112,629 | $46,536,687 | $89,960,850 | $136,497,537 | [55] | |
| Space Jam: A New Legacy | $150 million | $31,053,362 | $70,592,228 | $93,100,000 | $163,692,228 | [56] | |
| DC League of Super-Pets | $90 million | $23,000,000 | $93,657,117 | $113,900,000 | $207,557,117 | [57] | |
See also: Annie Awards.
| Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Animated Feature | data-sort-value="Lego Movie, The" | The Lego Movie | [59] | |
| Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production | data-sort-value="Danappal, Jayandera; Ebb, Matt; Hernandez, Christian Epunan; Brooks, Danielle; and Gadot, Raphael" | Jayandera Danappal, Matt Ebb, Christian Epunan Hernandez, Danielle Brooks, and Raphael Gadot | ||||
| Outstanding Achievement for Directing in a Feature Production | data-sort-value="Lord, Phil; Miller, Christopher; and McKay, Chris;" | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Chris McKay | ||||
| Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | data-sort-value="Freckelton, Grant" | Grant Freckelton | ||||
| Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production | data-sort-value="Lord, Phil and Miller, Christopher" | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | ||||
| Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in a Feature Production | data-sort-value="Burrows, David; Hansen; Todd; Nicholas, Doug; Tappin, Jonathan; and O'Brien-Brown, Courtney | David Burrows, Todd Hansen, Doug Nicholas, Jonathan Tappin, and Courtney O'Brien-Brown | ||||
| 2016 | Storks | Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Katie Crown | [60] | ||
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Directing in a Feature Production | Chris McKay | [61] | ||
| Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Zach Galifianakis | |||||
| Editorial in an Animated Feature Production | David Burrows, Matt Villa and John Venzon | |||||
| 2018 | Smallfoot | [62] | ||||
See also: British Academy Film Awards.
See also: Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
| Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Animated Feature | The Lego Movie | [64] | |
| Best Song | data-sort-value="Everything Is Awesome" | "Everything Is Awesome" |
See also: Golden Raspberry Awards.
| Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Tom & Jerry | Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | |||
| Worst Screen Combo | Tom & Jerry (aka Itchy & Scratchy) | ||||
| Worst Picture | Maverick Carter, Ryan Coogler, Duncan Henderson, and LeBron James | ||||
| Worst Actor | LeBron James as himself | ||||
| Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | |||||
| Worst Screen Combo | LeBron James & any Warner cartoon character (or Time-Warner product) he dribbles on | ||||
See also: Satellite Awards.
| Year | Film | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Best Motion Picture Animated or Mixed Media | data-sort-value="Lego Movie, The" | The Lego Movie | [65] | |
| Best Original Screenplay | data-sort-value="Lord, Phil and Miller, Christopher" | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | ||||
| Best Original Song | data-sort-value="Everything Is Awesome" | "Everything Is Awesome" | ||||
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | The Lego Batman Movie | [66] |
See also: Saturn Awards.
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