Paramount Animation

Paramount Animation is an animation film division of Paramount Pictures. It was a joint venture between Paramount & Nickelodeon Movies.
==History==
In July 2011, in the wake of critical and box office success of the 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. 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. In February 2012, Stainton resigned for personal reasons, with Paramount Film Group's president, Adam Goodman, stepping in to directly oversee the studio. It was also announced that SpongeBob SquarePants 2 (a sequel to 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie), based upon the popular Nickelodeon TV show, SpongeBob SquarePants, will be the studio's first movie and will be released on February 13, 2015.
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, Variety reported that Paramount Animation was in the process of starting development of several animated movies with budgets of around USD 100 million. According to Variety, the intellectual property for these films is to be supplied by Nickelodeon among others and is to include Dora the Explorer, The Legend of Korra and Monkey Quest.
==Filmography==
===Feature films===
Released films
Title 	Release date 	Ref(s)	Budget 	Worldwide gross	RT score	MC score
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	February 13, 2015 	 	$74 million 	$325.1 million 	81% 	62
The Little Prince 	July 29, 2015 (France)August 5, 2016 (Netflix US/UK/Aus) 	 	$77.5 million 	$97.5 million 	93% 	70
Anomalisa 	December 30, 2015 	 	$8 million 	$5.7 million 	92% 	88
Monster Trucks 	January 13, 2017 	 	$125 million 	$64.4 million 	32% 	41
Sherlock Gnomes 	March 23, 2018 	 	$59 million 	$90.3 million 	27% 	36
Wonder Park 	March 15, 2019 	 	$80-110 million	$119.6 million 	34% 	45
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run 	August 14, 2020 (Canada)November 5, 2020 (Netflix - overseas)March 4, 2021 (US)	 	$60 million 	$4.8 million 	67% 	65%
Rumble 	December 15, 2021 	 	TBA 	N/A 	43% 	48
Upcoming films
Title 	Release date 	Ref(s)
Under the Boardwalk 	TBA 2022 	
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 	August 4, 2023 	
Untitled Spongebob Squarepants spin-off film	TBA 2023 	
The Tiger's Apprentice 	January 19, 2024 	
Untitled Transformers animated film 	July 19, 2024 	
The Smurfs Movie 	February 14, 2025	
Untitled fourth Spongebob Squarepants film 	May 23, 2025 	
Untitled Avatar: The Last Airbender film 	October 10, 2025 	
Films in development
Title 	Ref(s)
The New Kid	
Shedd 	
Related productions
Title 	Release date 	Ref(s)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 	November 19, 2004 	
Rango 	March 4, 2011 	
Sonic the Hedgehog 	February 14, 2020 	
PAW Patrol: The Movie 	August 20, 2021 	
The Loud House Movie 	August 20, 2021 	
My Little Pony: A New Generation	September 24, 2021	
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 	April 8, 2022 	
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank	July 15, 2022 	
Luck 	August 5, 2022 	
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie 	October 13, 2023 	
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 	December 20, 2024 	
==References==
==See also==
*Paramount Pictures
*Rango (2011 film)
*SpongeBob SquarePants
*Nickelodeon Movies
==External links==
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Category:American animation studios
Category:Paramount Pictures
Category:Joint ventures
Category:DTV companies