MrBeast in Royal Woods

MrBeast in Royal Woods is a 2023 American live-action/animated coming-of-age family comedy-drama web film produced by YouTube Premium, Nickelodeon Movies, Legendary Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment, Participant Media, Entertainment One, and Perfect World Pictures and released by YouTube. It features characters from Nickelodeon's multimedia franchise The Loud House created by Chris Savino and stars influential YouTuber MrBeast as a fictionalised version of himself; Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Peyton List, Dumbfoundead, James Rolfe, Daniel Kaluuya, and Robert De Niro star in additional live-action roles, while Tex Hammond, Andre Robinson, Breanna Yde and Jessica DiCicco headline The Loud House voice cast. Directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Kevin Sullivan and a story by Marc Forster, the film follows MrBeast as he helps the animated characters from The Loud House universe, who get stuck in the real world as a result of a rare solar eclipse, come to terms with their insecurities and existential crises while simultaneously contending with a ruthless crime syndicate bent on distorting the spacetime continuum in search for multiversal omnipotence.
On August 23, 2021, MrBeast announced in a video on his YouTube channel that he and YouTube Premium were partnering with Nickelodeon Movies and other companies to develop a crossover flick between his channel and Nickelodeon's animated show The Loud House, with production starting the following week. The full cast and crew, along with the film's release date, were publicly revealed in mid-September that year and was promised to be a gripping, comedic and sometimes emotionally powerful film with a lot to offer; MrBeast himself cited many classics such as Stand By Me and Inside Out as the primary inspirations. A teaser trailer was posted onto MrBeast's channel on September 30, 2022, followed by an official trailer on November 15, 2022 and a final trailer on December 4, 2022, respectively; production wrapped the day after the final trailer was posted. The animation for The Loud House characters and settings was provided by George Lucas' visual effects company Industrial Lights and Magic.
Premiering at the TCL Chinese Theatre on January 5, the film was exclusively released to YouTube Premium on January 10, 2023 after receiving a limited theatrical release three days before. Critics and audiences universally praised the film for its themes, performances, screenplay and particularly for the technical achievements of its flawless, believable intertwining of live-action and animation.