Untitled ''Puyo Puyo: The Movie'' reboot

Five years ago, Rockville Worldwide Studios fell into despair until New Year's Eve 2023, and Carbuncle Films was founded in 2017 to produce future Puyo Puyo theatrical features. Another five years ago, a film adaptation of Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary was released by 20th Century Fox, and was completely panned by critics, as well as becoming a box office failure. This caused Puyo Puyo's theatrical filmography to suffer a 10-year hiatus. Although the filmography is still on hiatus, Carbuncle Films is planning a new animated feature film, but this feature film is a reboot of the 2007 feature film Puyo Puyo, produced by Halfbrick Animation Studios and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The 2007 feature film is also based entirely on the Puyo Puyo video game series and is therefore a parallel to Peter Pan. The feature film is scheduled for release in 2018 or 2019, before its release is announced on May 31. 2019 (which was taken over by Godzilla: King of the Monsters), before being delayed until June 2, 2023 (also according to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ), and will eventually be removed from the calendar. 
Mike Disa was considered as director, with David Wachtenheim as co-director, but they were dropped from the project and the film was put on hold. Finally, Sega Sammy Group, in 2020, released Sonic the Hedgehog and embarked on its foray into the feature film and television industry, which included feature films. Based on video games and franchises. Sega Sammy's other foray is to also advance in the animation industry to compete with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Blue Sky Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, Paramount Animation and Warner Animation Group. In addition to producing feature films, which will be revealed to be live-action only, Sega of America saw interests in also developing animated productions, as well as including the idea for the original film. And so Puyo Puyo's new return to feature film arose. 
In early 2020, Sega re-conceived everything about the new Puyo Puyo feature film, which would then be announced on December 20, 2020. And there's David Bowers, the director behind Flushed Away and Astro Boy, including sequels to the live-action film series Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Bowers directed the feature film. Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, co-writers of A Dog's Purpose, signed on to write the film's script. The feature films mark the reunion of the three after collaborating on Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days in 2012. Sonic the Hedgehog co-producers Takeshi Ito, Toru Nakahara and Toby Ascher would later return as producers along with the 2020 film's co-producer Karina Rahardja, with Mireille Soria signed on as producer, plus Chris Jenkins and Suzanne Buirgy. The three have previously co-produced DreamWorks Animation's Home. The first three and the last three would later co-produce the array of early Sega Sammy Group animated films, beginning with Tama. Additionally, Sega Sammy Group would later begin co-producing the first four animated shorts to be released, including The Wibberlies, although a couple of them would be produced by Marza Animation Planet. 
TMS Entertainment was approved to produce the Puyo Puyo feature film. The best would come with the founding of the third and final core company of the Disneyverse, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, incorporated in 2021 in Redmond, Washington, and launched in February 2021, with 175 projects in development, therefore rotating adaptations to the entire Super Smash Bros. franchise, upon the relations of the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 1, 2021, Sega Sammy Animation was founded by Ito, Nakahara, Ascher and Sonic the Hedgehog associate producer Dan Jevons to produce hit animated feature films to attract audiences by Sega Sammy. 
The following month, Puyo Puyo Quest Studios was established in an effort to generate creativity beyond the Puyo Puyo Quest franchise, as well as including animated feature films conceived by Sega Networks in late 2020. Rita Lichtwardt, who was an additional story artist for Illumination's Despicable Me, was cast as the creative manager of Puyo Puyo Quest Studios and served as executive producer of the feature film.
Paramount Pictures officially signed a 6-year deal with Sega Sammy Group, whose newly formed film unit is Sega Motion Pictures, to co-produce, co-finance and co-distribute a variety of films, leading a deal of $16 billion to encompass Sega's "world of epic feature films." This marks Sega's first foray into feature films and television, following feature films tied to these video games. Paramount Pictures and Netflix were considered to acquire distribution rights to the film, whose working titles included "Puyo Puyo" and/or "The Puyo Puyo Movie", before being refused distribution. The final distributor of the film is Lionsgate (the now brand of The Onward Company), whose Canadian investment company Bendon co-finances Lionsgate's selection of films under its Bendon Releasing label. 
The latter, Netflix, would be acquired by The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company during 2023. At the time, the Sega Sammy Animation staff consists of the story artists from Sony Pictures Animation, including the visual development team from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Croods. Karina McBeth, Diana Kidlaied, Miguel Jiron, Denise Nagisa Koyama and Jihyun Park lead the company's core story team. The main cast of actors and actresses from the Puyo Puyo franchise, including Cassandra Lee Morris, Erica Mendez, Christine Marie Cabanos, Wendee Lee, Ben Lipley, Ben Diskin, Spike Spencer, and Kira Buckland, reprized their roles. The film's cast is joined by actors and actresses such as Shameik Moore, Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Meghan Trainor, Bebe Rexha, Fazouzia, David Guetta and Christian Convery, with some additional vocals. 
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, co-writers of Disney's Frozen, would return to co-write the songs for Puyo Puyo: The Movie, making it his first non-Disney related production. Mark Mothersbaugh returned as composer of the score, written by orchestrators and music producers Henri Wilkinson, Edward Trybek and Jonathan Beard through their banner Tutti Music Partners . Mothersbaugh, the Disneyverse's leading composer, became the most successful composer, behind hits like The Lego Movie and Thor: Ragnarok. Mothersbaugh's core works included Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania franchise, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Ramona and Beezus and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. Mothersbaugh recorded the musical score for it in Los Angeles, marking his return after his main production from The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part to The Willoughbys. This plus also marks Mothersbaugh's first major work as a conductor after Hotel Transylvania 2 and Thor: Ragnarok, after which Davies conducted the scores for The Mitchells vs. The Machines and Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. The film began production in June 2021 as announced by Sega Sammy Group, and two months later, its final title was revealed as "Puyo Puyo: The Movie", after which Bowers referred to the Japanese translation, meaning "Puyo Puyo: Movie". At the time, the film's working title was still "The Puyo Puyo Movie." 
"Puyo Puyo: The Movie" was originally scheduled for release on September 23, 2022, but was later delayed until release on November 4, 2022, effectively swapping release dates with the live-action superhero film adaptation of the video game Yakuza, which is produced jointly with Sony Pictures Entertainment through their Columbia Pictures label. Mothersbaugh is also the composer of Yakuza, and Yakuza was his first work as a director, marking Puyo Puyo: The Movie as his second work as a director. Disney often recorded both musical scores for "Yakuza" and "Puyo Puyo: The Movie", performed by ensembles of 90 to 110 musicians from the American Federation of Musicians, at the same time, from June to August 2021. The co-recording of the music took place over a period of three months, in addition to the release of Yakuza on September 23, 2022 in the US by Sony Pictures Releasing through their Columbia Pictures label. Its theatrical release in the United States was also preceded by "The Wibberlies", while its theatrical release in Japan was released two weeks earlier. 
Puyo Puyo: The Movie, on the other hand, was released on November 4, 2022 in the US by Lionsgate and received widespread critical acclaim, as well as becoming the highest-grossing film ever in 2022. It surpassed other high-grossing feature films such as Minions: The Rise of Gru, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Avatar: The Way of Water. Four months before the film's release, Sega Sammy Animation will restructure as Sega Animation Studios, making Puyo Puyo: The Movie the first feature film produced. As of late 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it would be moving forward with the franchise, including possible spin-offs, entries, and planned feature films. Finally, on January 17, 2023, the company announced the sequel to Puyo Puyo: The Movie, which is in development. The sequel features the return of Nakahara and Ascher as producers, but featured the lack of involvement of Bowers, Ito, Soria and Wolodarsky, due to Bowers working on the Netflix animated feature called The Amazing Dinosaur Adventure, slated for its release on March 22, 2024. 
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 producer Hitoshi Okuno returned as producer, in addition to Sonic Prime producer Denise Tanchanco. Gina Shay served as a producer on the sequel. Matt Braly, creator of the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia, will direct the film and will make his directorial debut with the film. David Callaham signed on to write the film's script, and also teamed up with Paul Fisher, who wrote scripts for the DreamWorks Animation feature films The Croods: A New Age and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The feature film is also scheduled for release in late 2026.
However, back in April 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that the Puyo Puyo multimedia franchise will be discontinued effectively 2025, in favor of the new Puyo Puyo: Puzzle Pop animated series, meaning that several planned Puyo Puyo projects were cancelled as a result of this. Sega Animation Studios and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios are set to be merged into Sega Sammy Animation Television for the latter studio's expansion, while several projects produced at the former studios would moving development and production to SSAT itself, with The Beach World Movie and The Happily Adventures of Ringo & Amitie considered the final projects to be produced by PPQS. 
Later, on July 14, 2024, Braly confirmed that the sequel has been cancelled due to the company no longer producing any American adaptations to the franchise, coming from this lacking of American propositions, even success of Sony Music Animation Group with the recent release of Sword Art Online: The Movie. The film was reworked into a potential reboot to Puyo Puyo: The Movie, and it was pushed back later to December 24, 2027, and will feature new plot summary, while an Puyo Puyo anime film is in developmnt and is scheduled for its release in Japan first on March 6, 2026.