{"id":19563,"date":"2022-07-19T22:39:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netflix-is-acquiring-animal-logic-the-animation-studio-behind-the-lego-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:39:40","slug":"netflix-is-acquiring-animal-logic-the-animation-studio-behind-the-lego-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netflix-is-acquiring-animal-logic-the-animation-studio-behind-the-lego-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix is \u200b\u200bacquiring Animal Logic, the animation studio behind The Lego Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"19VoqI\">Netflix plans to acquire the animation studio Animal Logic, which is known for making hits like <em>happy feet <\/em>and <em>The Lego Movie<\/em>the streaming company announced on Tuesday alongside its Q2 2022 earnings. <\/p>\n<p id=\"EzgOb2\">\u201cToday, we announced that we will be acquiring leading animation studio Animal Logic, with ~800 amazing people mostly in Sydney and Vancouver, which will help us accelerate the development of our animation production capabilities and reinforces our commitment to build a world-class animation studio,\u201d Netflix wrote in its Q2 2022 shareholder letter (pdf).<\/p>\n<p id=\"rFnaLv\">The two companies are already partnering on <em>The Magician&#8217;s Elephant<\/em> (set for a 2023 release) and Ron Howard&#8217;s first animated movie, <em>The Shrinking of Treehorn<\/em>.  The acquisition is expected to close this year, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p id=\"nvnX3y\">Netflix has continued to build out its animated programming, including a recently announced series based on the <em>Exploding Kittens <\/em>card game that&#8217;s set for next year.  But in May, it also laid off 70 part-time jobs in its animation studio and dropped some animated projects, <em>variety<\/em> report.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"Z2Dj63\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix plans to acquire the animation studio Animal Logic, which is known for making hits like happy feet and The Lego Moviethe streaming company announced on Tuesday alongside its Q2 2022 earnings. \u201cToday, we announced that we will be acquiring leading animation studio Animal Logic, with ~800 amazing people mostly in Sydney and Vancouver, which &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netflix-is-acquiring-animal-logic-the-animation-studio-behind-the-lego-movie\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Netflix is \u200b\u200bacquiring Animal Logic, the animation studio behind The Lego Movie<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20124,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netflix-has-acquired-animation-studio-animal-logic\/","url_meta":{"origin":19563,"position":0},"title":"Netflix Has Acquired Animation Studio Animal Logic","date":"July 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, Netflix has announced it has acquired Animal Logic, an animation studio with credits on films and shows such as Captain Marvel, The Lego Movie 2, Peter Rabbit, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and more.The Australian studio has been in the business since its debut in 1994 on Little Women,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19523,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netflix-acquires-animation-studio-animal-logic-deadline\/","url_meta":{"origin":19563,"position":1},"title":"Netflix Acquires Animation Studio Animal Logic \u2013 Deadline","date":"July 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Netflix is \u200b\u200bmoving further into the world of animation with the acquisition of Australian studio Animal Logic. 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