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Netflix has unveiled a new slate of animated films commissioned from content creators across Europe.
The announcement comes ahead of next week’s 61st annual Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The new films include Ember, Sergio Pablos’ follow-up to the BAFTA award-winning Klaus; animated musical Scrooge: A Christmas Carol featuring songs by acclaimed Academy Award winner Leslie Bricusse; That Christmas based on the children’s books by BAFTA winner Richard Curtis; as well as an untitled animated film by Wallace & Gromit animator, Steve Box. On the series side,
Netflix will welcome three brand new original productions including Bad Dinosaurs from Snafu Pictures and Able & Baker, Mermaid Magic from Rainbow, The Seven Bears from Folivari, as well as Wereworld from Lime Pictures, which is based on the series of fantasy novels by Curtis Jobling.
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From the UK, Stephen Donnelly’s version of the Dickens’ classic creates a supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story; Richard Curtis’ That Christmas follows a series of entwined tales about love and loneliness, family and friends, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys.
Spain’s Sergio Pablos has created Logline an epic adventure tale of humankind’s quest for fire told through the eyes of young Dikika who embarks on an impossible race to a distant volcano to retrieve the precious spark that will save her tribe. Unlike the other commissions, Logline has been hand drawn.
The projects join a growing list of European animation on the streamer join a growing list of animated titles from Europe including My Father’s Dragon from Cartoon Saloon and Academy Award nominated Director Nora Twomey and will debut on Netflix this autumn, as well as Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and an untitled Wallace & Gromit project from the beloved four-time Academy Award winning Bristol-based animation studio Aardman.
