Films

Films from the Humanoidverse. Produced by Hasbro Studios / Allspark / Entertainment One / Hasbro Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Hollowfox Entertainment. The special direct-to-video/Montalvo Original films will be known in Japan as Cinematic OVA's (Original Video Animation) with Aniplex distributing on behalf of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment (2012-2020), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (2020-2022) and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2023-Present).

## List of Films

### Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku films

 Aegis Resort
 The Last Great Equestrian War
 The Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku Motion Picture | June 28, 2013
 An AppleSpark Marriage Story | TBA 2025

#### The Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku Motion Picture (2013)

The Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku Motion Picture (or Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku The Movie) is a Japanese-American animated 2013 feature film from Ivanna The Movie and Hasbro Studios, based on the Anthro Bunraku comic book series by Aaron Montalvo as well as the animated TV series adaptation. Despite being non-canon to the comic book, it's written by Aaron Montalvo, making it an original story for the animated series, along with Meghan McCarthy and Joss Whedon.

The movie is produced by Ivanna The Movie, Hasbro Studios, DHX Media, Titmouse Inc., MTV Films, Mutant Enemy Productions, Trigger and Paramount Animation with a co-production by Aniplex, Bandai Visual, Bushiroad Entertainment, Takara Tomy, Kadokawa Pictures, Dentsu Entertainment and diBonaventura Pictures and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The movie is released on June 28th, 2013 in theatres worldwide.

#### Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku - Aegis Resort (2014)

**Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku - Aegis Resort** *(**ハーモニーアンリーシュド：アンズロー文楽 - THE ANIMATION FILM - イージスリゾート**, Hāmonī anrīshudo: Anzurō bunraku Za Animeshon Firumu: Ījisurizōto)* is a Japanese-American anime film based on the graphic novel of the same name produced by Trigger, Liden Films, Bushiroad, Takara Tomy, Aniplex, Hasbro Studios, Hollowfox Entertainment and Bandai Visual, written by Joss Whedon, Shotaro Suga, Rob Renzetti and Aaron Montalvo with a story by Montalvo himself and directed by Yoh Yoshinari set to be released in July 2014 in Digital 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D for a limited time in North America, distributed by Aniplex US and Paramount Vantage.

#### Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku - The Last Great Equestrian War (2015)

**Harmony Unleashed: Anthro Bunraku - The Last Great Equestrian War** *(**ハーモニーアンリーシュド：アンソロ文楽 THE MOVIE - エクエストリア最終大戦**, Hāmonīanrīshudo: Ansoro bunraku Za mūbī - ekuesutoria saishū taisen)* is an upcoming Japanese-American/Canadian animated film directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, Jayson Thiessen & Chris Prynoski, written by Nicole Dubuc, Joss Whedon, Simon Kinberg, Rebecca Sugar & Rob Renzetti adapting Aaron Montalvo's storyline arc in the comic book series of the same name.

The film is considered a full-length series finale film, after Hasbro and Montalvo's decision on making a 4-parter into a telefilm after making the series have a third and final season with 22 episodes and omitting the AppleSpark Redemption miniseries.

The film will air in Summer 2015 on AMtv and AM-Pony soon releasing on Home Video from Shout! Factory and Paramount Home Video. The film is rated TV-MA. In Japan, it is licensed by Kadokawa and gets a Fall 2015 release.

### Harmony Unleashed: Equestria Campus Supremacy films

#### Welcome to Canterlot High (2015)

The animated series project will start with an 115-minute pilot film called "Welcome to Canterlot High", the telefilm is directed by Juno Lee, Ishi Rudell, Hiroyuki Imaishi & Jayson Thiessen, written by Greg Weisman, Aaron Montalvo, Joss Whedon & Rob Renzetti and it will be airing on AM-Pony in April 2015 in North America and Japan, and Internationally in May. The film is licensed by Ivanna Hollowfox Motion Pictures Distribution with distribution by Kadokawa, MGM Studios, Entertainment One and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

#### Secret Origins of a Day Princess (2016)

The origin story about the life of a younger Celestia and Luna, as they live their lives facing High School in Dream Valley Academy, Celestia's crush on Prince Sombra, and other stuff growing up that might lead her to face her own sister and her life before she became principal of Canterlot High School.

Years ago it was confirmed that a prequel special film is in development for a release around 2016 and 2017. In Comic-Con 2016, a trailer was revealed for a Celestia & Luna centered prequel film set for a Fall 2016 limited release in theatres and simultaneously on home video with MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment distributing with Hasbro Studios, Aniplex, Arad Productions, Ivanna The Movie Premiere and K/O Paper Products producing the film with animation by Trigger, Titmouse and Production I.G. Emilie-Claire Barlow is voicing a younger Celestia, with Tabitha St. Germain reprising her role as Luna and Nolan Gerard Funk voicing a young Prince Sombra.

#### Neverfree 2: Reckoning of Gaea (2017)

A direct-to-video special film, known as a sequel to the episode "Neverfree" is in development. It will be set in Camp Everfree and it will feature characters such as Gloriosa Daisy and Timber Spruce.

Drew Goddard will write the film alongside Aaron Montalvo, Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers and Scott Sonneborn and Shaun Cashman will direct the film. The film is released on July 1st, then worldwide on August 18.

#### The Peninsula Project (2018)

A beach/peninsula themed ECS direct-to-video film is set for an Early 2018 release with Stephen Sandoval, LeSean Thomas, Juno Lee and Asaph Fipke and Akira Amemiya directing. Kristin Chenoweth, Zoe Saldana and Uzo Aduba will reprise their roles as Skystar, Captain Celaeno and Novo from the 2017 My Little Pony feature film. Steven Yeun is added to the cast as a new character, Sparrow Cloud, son of Celaeno.

##### Sacred Awakening of Magic (2018)

Fox, Hasbro and MGM announced at SXSW 2016 that the sequel to the first film, following the past seasons, will be a theatrical feature film with Aaron Montalvo, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Josh Feldman, Avi Arad, Bobby Cohen, Dan Harmon, Dino Stamatopoulos, Maki Terashima-Furuta and Hideki "Henry" Goto as producers for the theatrical film. Co-developer Greg Weisman will be an executive producer alongside Michael Vogel and Jayson Thiessen among others including Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis.

Allspark Pictures and Ivanna The Movie will be the main production of the movie alongside Arad Productions and K/O Paper Products while Trigger, Titmouse, Production I.G., Boulder Media and Rough Draft Studios will animate the movie. Series' supervising director Hiroyuki Imaishi will direct the movie alongside David Silverman, as they announced that he will mainly direct the movie. Asaph Fipke will also direct the movie alongside Silverman and Imaishi. The film will take place during and between Season 3 and 4.

Montalvo said that there will be movie-exclusive characters, such as Athena (voiced by Natalia Dyer), Blaze (voiced by Zach Callison) and Necromanthys (voiced by TC Carson). Taye Diggs (Empire, My Little Pony: The Movie), Michael Fassbender (X-Men, Assassin's Creed) and Ian McShane (Kung Fu Panda, Game of Thrones) will make their appearances in the film as Light Strife, Cervas and Capper. Later, Sia reprises her role as Songbird Serenade from the 2017 MLP film alongside the addition of Ariana Grande as Starling Bravura, a new character. The film is rated R and is released on June 28, 2018.

#### Honey-Blood-Moon (2020)

On WonderCon 2019, Montalvo brought a trailer for a Crystal family-centric spin-off film set for a February 2020 release through United Artists Releasing (Americas) and Entertainment One (Worldwide) with Annapurna Pictures, MGM, Allspark Animation and Hollowfox Toonimation Workshop producing. It will be directed by Atsushi Nishigori, Charlie Kaufman and Shaun Cashman and written by Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe, Erica Rivinoja, David X. Cohen, Aaron Ehasz, Justin Richmond and Kevin Hopps from a story by Carbiener, Rosbe and Montalvo.

The film will have Andrew Francis, Britt McKillip and Tabitha St. Germain reprise their roles as Cadance, Shining Armor and Flurry Heart while new characters join the roster with Dwayne Johnson, Esme Bianco, Hannah John-Kamen and Lance Henriksen voicing them.

In April 2019, due to the creator's mentality on 2D animation not being "hot" for theatrical releases (with My Little Pony: The Movie and Teen Titans Go! To The Movies) due to them not having successful runs at the box office (leading to the former not having a sequel and the latter having a crossover with Teen Titans instead of a sixth season of the aforementioned series) as well as the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic concerns, MGM, Hasbro, eOne and Hollowfox negotiated with Netflix in order to release not only this, but also future Humanoidverse feature films to the streaming service with some skipping theatrical releases (like this one), and Netflix seals the deal with the Humanoidverse Project team. Marking it a Netflix original film. UAR will co-distribute it with Netflix and eOne. The new release date will be in June 2020.

#### Equestria Campus Alumnus' Ever After Picture Show (2021)

Alongside the upcoming spin-off, a standalone "extended finale" feature film is in development. The extended finale will take place during the miniseason's final episode's events, expanding on the time skip and introducing to the EqG-esque versions of Cozy Glow and Grogar.

Aaron Montalvo, Greg Weisman, Kevin Hopps, Dan Sterling, Erica Rivinoja, Adam Stein and Alex Kurtzman are set to write the film from a story by Montalvo, Kurtzman, Weisman, and Dan Harmon with Jayson Thiessen returning to the series as the finale film's director alongside Hiroyuki Imaishi and Chris Prynoski. A key visual teaser has been revealed alongside a Q3 2021 release date on Comic-Con @ Home. It was later pushed back to the fourth quarter of the year with the announcement of Montalvo Releasing assisting UAR and MGM for future Humanoidverse films on December 31, 2020.

Like its previous films, distribution in North America will be handled by United Artists Releasing and Montalvo Releasing and internationally by Hasbro's Entertainment One under its distribution label of the same name with other countries co-operating with Universal Pictures (with the exception of Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom, where eOne will self-distribute the film).

It was originally set to be adopted by Netflix due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Netflix and Hollowfox Entertainment reenvisioned the deal to make it a one-time-only occasion for both the spin-off film and the Blythe X film only for 2020 before ceding the distribution rights to future Humanoidverse films back to UAR and eOne as theatres reopen and the pandemic slows down.

### Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X films

 A Date to Dismember | April 9, 2021
 The Trent Idol Project | September 2021
 Animal Instinct: A Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X Movie | September 25, 2020
 A Merged Future: A Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X Movie | March 2022

### Transformers: CrossAnthrophy series

#### Wrecker's Ball (2020)

When Wheeljack, Ironhide, Strongarm and Bulkhead decide to take the mission, they remember moments of unfortunate losses of the Wreckers. Meanwhile, they go head to head with the Dreads as the last of the Wreckers will tackle them in the memory of the fallen.

The first direct-to-video film, directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa and written by Jordan Roberts, Henry Gilroy, Whitney Ralls and Brandon Easton is released on Digital and Home Video from Universal Home Entertainment on September 22, 2020.

#### Bees and Rods (2021)

The second direct-to-video and the first to go direct-to-streaming as a MontalVue Original Film, directed by Atsushi Nishigori, and written by Craig Kyle, Greg Johnson, Todd Casey and Jerome Schwartz, will be streaming on MontalVue and on digital on March 12. 2021 with a Home Video release from Universal Home Entertainment on March 30. 2021.

#### Prime of Quintessence (2021)

The third direct-to-video film, directed by Nobuyuki Kaneko and written by J.R. Orci, Roberto Orci and Steven S. DeKnight will be released first on MontalVue and on digital on August 6, 2021 and soon on home video.

#### Unicromageddon & Unicromageddon Climax (2022)

A 2-parter finale film is set for a theatrical release by Montalvo Releasing and United Artists Releasing in the United States, Entertaiment One in Canada, United Kingdom and Spain, Aniplex and Kadokawa in Japan and Universal Pictures in the rest of the world in 2022 back-to-back. It will be taking place before the events of Humanoid Squad and after the events of the series. It will also be simultaneously streaming on MontalVue through their VIP-OD program in the United States.

## Crossover Films

### Equestria Girls Crossovers (2013)

Main article: My Little Pony: Harmony Unleashed - Anthro Bunraku x Equestria Girls: Mirror Raiders
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Main article: My Little Pony: Harmony Unleashed - Anthro Bunraku x Equestria Girls: Dual Equine Blood
NI97/AR97 Entertainment Studios Inc. and Hasbro Studios proposed an Equestria Girls/Anthro Bunraku crossover media spin-off franchise based on both the graphic novel series and the controversial spin-off film, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, which are both based on the characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, created by Lauren Faust. They started the film series with its first film aired on The Pony Network in North America and later released worldwide in theatres for a limited time. The first film is written by Aaron Montalvo, Nicole Dubuc and Meghan McCarthy, which McCarthy worked prior to her departure to work on Season 4 of the original MLP series.

Later on, after the announcement of the second film, hence written by Aaron Montalvo, Rob Renzetti, Scott Sonneborn and Joss Whedon, they are developing a 5-part miniseries named "Prelude to Blood" that aired in the month of December of 2013 on Hulu and later released worldwide and on Netfilx and releasing on DVD in 2014.

Prior to the mini-series, they have announced that there will be a second film, which includes a third world, despite the title being "Dual" set to be released around 2014.

They are all produced by Trigger, Titmouse, Hasbro Studios, Hollowfox Entertainment, Dentsu, Bushiroad, Takara Tomy, Bandai Visual, Aniplex, Pony Canyon Enterprises, We've, Kadokawa Pictures, Ultra Super Pictures, The Pony Network, DHX Media, ActionFliks Media Group, FremantleMedia Enterprises

### Anthro Bunraku X Equestria Girls X Equestria Campus Supremacy: Triple Threat Hoofdown (2016)

In Wondercon, a special crossover film featuring the Equestria Girls and Anthro Bunraku, culminating the EG/AB crossover trilogy has been confirmed for a November 2016 release. The film is directed by Rob Boutilier and Takafumi Hori with a screenplay by Montalvo, Alex Hirsch, David Slack, Chris Savino, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein.

### Worlds Collide Again: Equestria Campus Supremacy vs. Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X, Part Deux (2020)

Drew Goddard, Adam Beechen and Greg Weisman are set to write the film with Trigger, Wit Studio, and Titmouse animating the film with Boulder Media. The crossover movie is set to be a sequel to ECS Season 3's/LPSBX Season 1's 3-parter as the film will take place during Season 5 of ECS and Season 4 of Blythe X.

Development started in 2017 but now it has surprisingly decided to state that development has been finished in 2018 and production has been finished after two years, with the film being complete for a June 26, 2020 release (alongside Honey-Blood-Moon) with Netflix co-distributing the film alongside Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Entertainment One, releasing it as a Netflix film, with home video release under Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

### ECS x Transformers: The Allspark of CrossAnthrophy (2020)

An ECS/Transformers crossover film is announced, as a tie-in to Transformers: CrossAnthrophy. Series' executive producers and writers Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci will write the film with Montalvo, Jordan Roberts and Greg Weisman. Steven Spielberg will be the executive consultant for the film.

The film is set for an April 24, 2020 release in television and May 1st on streaming (through Netflix and HCN+) and June 8, 2020 on home video from Fox, MGM and Aniplex of America. Asaph Fipke (Storm Hawks), Miki Brewster (Steven Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) and Shigetaka Ikeda (Future Card Buddyfight) are set to direct the film, marking Brewster's directorial debut. Roberts, Kurtzman & Orci, alongside Montalvo and Weisman will be story writers with Weisman, Kevin Hopps, Jose Molina, G.M. Berrow and Tim Hedrick as writers.

Hiroyuki Imaishi and Shaun Cashman will be directorial supervisors and will be animated at Studio Trigger, Titmouse and Production I.G. With CGI co-developed at Sanzigen and Boulder Media.

### Humanoid Squad films (2022-2023)

Main article: Humanoid Squad (film trilogy)