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**Anaya Animation** is an Marcanese-American animation studio owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Anaya Company. Located in Houston, Texas with facilities on Gulfton, Marco Island and Galveston, Texas; the studio focuses on animated movies, animated shorts, and TV shows based on their movies. Most of their films were critically-acclaimed, most notably the Marco franchise. They were also box office hits; the highest-grossing so far being *Marco 4* and *Joaquin & Emiliano: The Movie.*

Most of Anaya Animation's films are distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Columbia Pictures label in North America; while The Anaya Company releases the films overseas & on Marco Island. Marc from *The BeachBallHeads* is the studio's mascot.

## Anaya Animation

### Headquarters

Houston, Texas, United StatesGulfton, Marco Island

### Key People

Marcus Joshua-LinusAnthony Samuel

Carla Lebedev

### Products

Feature filmsTelevision shows

Short films

## History

Anaya Animation was founded on April 27, 1995 by Marcus Joshua-Linus, a executive director at The Anaya Company, as a successor to Anaya Feature Animation Studios. The new animation studio started producing short films for animated movies done by Imageworks Entertainment (another animation studio) as well as a few live-action films by Columbia Pictures & The Anaya Company. Following the success of their 1999 short *Brothers*, Anaya Animation made their first feature-length animated film *Nearlyweds* in 2003. Despite having a modest box office, *Nearlyweds* received positive reviews from critics. On January 2004, they created their first computer-animated/stop motion film *Good Ol' Mr. Abner* to universal acclaim, although the film was a modest box office success. At that same time, The Anaya Company established Actors 3D Entertainment; and on February 2004, Anaya Animation decided to join Actors 3D to help develop their first completely CGI-animated film, *Marco*.

A year later, *Marco* was released to theaters on February 16, 2005 to positive reviews from critics; who acclaimed its realistic-looking animation, humor, characters, voice acting, soundtrack, action, and most of all its surprising emotional depth. *Marco* was also a huge box office hit, grossing $983 million over a $67 million budget. It also became the highest-grossing animated film of 2005, the 2nd highest-grossing film of 2005, and one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time. *Marco* went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2005 on Marco Island; and on United States got nominated for it. *Marco* later spawned three sequels and a spinoff film starring Marco's cousins in *Joaquin & Emiliano: The Movie.*

In 2007, Anaya Animation released two films: *The BeachBallHeads Movie,* based on the hit television series of the same name; and *Timmy's Family Reunion,* a direct-to-video & television traditionally animated film based on the TV show of the same name that got mixed-to-high ratings on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. In September 2009, Anaya Animation (along with Ion Animation Studios) releases *Food Town,* which was a modest box office hit and recieved generally favorable reviews from critics. In October 2010, the studio, after four years of troubled production, released cult favorite *Hotel Cloudylandia,* which got mixed-to-positive reviews from critics & audiences and later spawned a successful franchise. In 2012, the studio released the 2DCG animated superhero action thriller *Agent Cyberlink,* which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature that year and also spawn a series in 2014. On November 2013, Anaya again teamed up with Actors 3D to develop *Marco 2,* the long-awaited sequel to the beloved classic spy film. Two years later, *Marco 3* was released in theaters July 2015 with Universal's help. On May 2016, *The Actors Movie* debuted in theaters and recieved critical acclaim and was a box office success. Later, in 2017, Actors 3D and Anaya Animation returned to produce *Marco 4.* Anaya Animation went on to work with Palenton Films (another animation studio owned by TAC) to make *Ay Dingo!: The Movie* in 2018*,* distributed by Lionsgate Films and 20th Century Fox. *Dingo* was both a commercial and critical hit at the movies, and won the Best Animated Feature award. Also in 2018, Anaya and Actors 3D produced *Los* *Beibis,* an animated version of the hugely successful & profitable TV show/franchise of the same name, and *Joaquin & Emiliano: The Movie. Los Beibis,* unfortunately, received a 57% on Rotten Tomatoes; making it the first "Rotten" film for Anaya and the third one for Actors 3D. *Joaquin & Emiliano: The Movie* was a critical success and became the highest-grossing animated film of all time. It got nominated for Best Animated Feature, but lost to *Ay Dingo!: The Movie. Actors 2* was released in 2019 and, just like its predecessor, got positive reviews and did well at the box office. In January 2020, Anaya and Palenton released *Dingo 2. Marco 5* was slated for a August 2020 release, but Anaya (along with Imageworks Entertainment) released *Mr. Indifferent*, based on the 2018 short of the same name, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and production issues with *Marco 5,* which got shifted for a February 2022 release in favor of *Joaquin & Emiliano: The Rise of Marco* for summer 2021; and later in December 2020, released *The Story Of Jesus* with Actors 3D Entertainment; both films were given a limited theatrical/streaming release and received universal acclaim. In February 2021, Paramount Pictures and Viacom make a deal with Anaya to release *Animated,* which spawned a series of its own a month later.

## List of Anaya Animation films

The following list are films produced by Anaya Animation, whether it´s theatrically released, direct-to-video, made for television, etc.

Anaya Animation's upcoming films are: *Joaquin & Emiliano: The Rise of Marco* (2021), *Reflection* (2021), *Los Beibis 2* (2021), *Marco 5* (2022), *Marcus The Kid* (2022), *Hotel Cloudylandia 3* (2022), and *Divo* (2023).

## Short Films

The following short films are from Anaya Animation

Cloudylandia Shorts
 *Cloudy Trouble* | 2010
 *Babysitter For A Day* | 2015
 *The Legend Of The Shadow Man* | 2015

## Television Shows

These TV shows are from Anaya Animation

Anaya TV Shows
 *The Marco Show* | 2005-2013
 *The Adventures of Joaquin & Emiliano* | 2013-present
 *The Cloudylandia Show* | 2012-2019