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Paramount Animation
Company typeDivision
IndustryAnimation
Motion pictures
FoundedJuly 6, 2011; 13 years ago (July 6, 2011)
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
United States
Key people
Mireille Soria
(President)[1]
Ramsey Naito
(Executive Vice President)[2]
ProductsAnimated films
Animated television shows
OwnerViacom
Number of employees
10 (2017)[3]
ParentParamount Pictures

Paramount Animation is the animation studio division of Paramount Pictures.[4] The division was founded in response to the success of Rango and DreamWorks Animation's departure from Paramount in 2012. Its first animated film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water was released on February 6, 2015,[5] and its latest release Sherlock Gnomes was released on March 23, 2018.

History

In July 2011, in the wake of critical and box office success of their animated feature, Rango and the departure of DreamWorks Animation upon completion of their distribution contract in 2012, Paramount announced the formation of a new division, devoted to the creation of animated productions.[4] It marks Paramount's return to having its own animated division for the first time since 1967, when Paramount Cartoon Studios shut down (it was formerly Famous Studios until 1956).

In October 2011, Paramount named a former president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, David Stainton, president of Paramount Animation.[6] In February 2012, Stainton resigned for personal reasons, with Paramount Film Group's president, Adam Goodman, stepping in to directly oversee the studio.[7] It was also announced that The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, a standalone sequel to 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and based upon the popular Nickelodeon TV show, SpongeBob SquarePants, is the studio's first film and was released on February 6, 2015.[5]

In August 2012, in the same month that DreamWorks Animation confirmed that it will be working with 20th Century Fox as distributor beginning in 2013,[8] Variety reported that Paramount Animation was in the process of starting development of several animated films with budgets of around US$100 million.[9]

On May 2016, Paramount Pictures announced that they had signed a deal with UK-based Locksmith Animation to co-develop and co-produce a series of animated projects to be released under the Paramount Animation label (with animation produced by Double Negative).[10] The following year, however, Paramount ended its deal with Locksmith when Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey was replaced by Jim Gianopulos, who decided that their projects did not fit in with Paramount’s other upcoming releases. Locksmith formed a multi-year production deal with 20th Century Fox four months later.[11][12]

In July 2017, Paramount Pictures named former DreamWorks Animation co-president Mireille Soria as the president of the studio.[13]

In April 2018, Paramount Pictures named former Blue Sky Studios and Nickelodeon Movies producer Ramsey Naito as the executive vice president of the studio.[14]

Process

Similar to Warner Animation Group and Sony Pictures Animation, Paramount Animation relies on other animation studios and VFX companies to provide the animation on their films, with the main studio only having about 10 employees working there.[3] This includes Nickelodeon Animation Studio (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge), Mr. X and Moving Picture Company (Monster Trucks), Mikros Image (Sherlock Gnomes), and Ilion Animation Studios (Wonder Park).

Some films, such as Sonic the Hedgehog (Marza Animation Planet & Blur Studio), Luck (Skydance Media and Ilion Animation Studios), and Monster on the Hill (Reel FX Creative Studios) are created outside of Paramount Animation, although they will be released under the studio's label.[15][16]

Filmography

Feature films

Released films

# Title Release date Co-production with Animation service(s) Directors Composers Budget Gross RT MC
1 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water[S] February 6, 2015 Nickelodeon Movies
United Plankton Pictures		 Rough Draft Studios
Iloura		 Paul Tibbitt John Debney $74 million $323.4 million[17] 80% 63
2 Monster Trucks[S] January 13, 2017 Disruption Entertainment
Nickelodeon Movies		 Mr. X
Moving Picture Company		 Chris Wedge Dave Sardy $125 million $64.5 million[18] 32% 41
3 Sherlock Gnomes March 23, 2018 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Rocket Pictures		 Mikros Image
(London and Paris)
Reel FX Creative Studios		 John Stevenson Chris Bacon $59 million $87.5 million[19] 29% 36

Upcoming films

# Title Release date Ref(s) Co-production with Animation service(s) Directors Composers
4 Wonder Park March 15, 2019 [20][21][22][23][24] Nickelodeon Movies Ilion Animation Studios David Feiss Steven Price
5 Sonic the Hedgehog[S][R] November 15, 2019 [25][26] Original Film
Sega		 Marza Animation Planet
Blur Studio		 Jeff Fowler TBA
6 Untitled animated film May 15, 2020 [27] TBA
7 The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge[S] July 22, 2020 [28][29][30] Nickelodeon Movies
United Plankton Pictures		 Rough Draft Studios Tim Hill
8 Monster on the Hill[R] 2020 [31][32] Walden Media Reel FX Creative Studios Bradley Raymond
9 Luck[R] March 19, 2021 [33][34] Skydance Media Ilion Animation Studios Alessandro Carloni
S Combines live-action with animation.
R Not produced, but released by Paramount Animation under its label.

Films in development

Title Ref(s)
Giant Monsters Attack Japan [35]
Untitled Sci-fi Project [36]
The Flamingo Affair [37]

Television series

Title Premiere date Network Co-production with
Wonder Park[38] 2019 Nickelodeon Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Ilion Animation Studios

Accolades

Annie Awards

Year Film Category Winner/Nominee(s) Result
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Animated Effects in an Animated Production Brice Mallier, Paul Buckley, Brent Droog, Alex Whyte and Jonothan Freisler Nominated
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Tom Kenny

Kids' Choice Awards

Year Film Category Winner/Nominee(s) Result
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Favorite Animated Movie Nominated

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