Netflix has unveiled its upcoming slate of animation films and shows and we couldn’t be more excited. From films, anime, adult series, family series to preschool, there’s something for everyone. According to Netflix, 130 million households watch animation every month on the global streaming giant. Without any ado let’s get started.
FILMS
Ultraman: Rising
14th June, 2024
With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle of Ultraman. But the titanic superhero meets his match when he reluctantly adopts a 35-foot-tall, fire-breathing baby kaiju. Sato must rise above his ego to balance work and parenthood while protecting the baby from forces bent on exploiting her for their own dark plans. In partnership with Netflix, Tsuburaya Productions, and Industrial Light & Magic, ‘Ultraman: Rising’ is written by Shannon Tindle and Marc Haimes, directed by Shannon Tindle, and co-directed by John Aoshima.
Cast
Christopher Sean, Gedde Watanabe, Tamlyn Tomita, Keone Young, Julia Harriman
The Imaginary
5th July, 2024
Studio Ponoc’s ‘The Imaginary’ portrays the depths of humanity and creativity through the eyes of young Amanda and her imaginary companion, Rudger, a boy no one can see imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger, suddenly alone, arrives at The Town of Imaginaries, where forgotten Imaginaries live and find work, he faces a mysterious threat. Directed by renowned animator Yoshiyuki Momose (‘Spirited Away’), ‘The Imaginary’ is an unforgettable adventure of love, loss, and the healing power of imagination.
Cast
Louie Rudge-Buchanan, Evie Kiszel, Hayley Atwell, Sky Katz, Jeremy Swift, Kal Penn, LeVar Burton, Jane Singer, Ruby Barnhill, Roger Craig Smith, Courtenay Taylor, Miles Nibbe
Saving Bikini Bottoms: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
2nd August, 2024
When Bikini Bottom and all its denizens are suddenly scooped out of the ocean, Sandy Cheeks and SpongeBob SquarePants journey to Texas to save the town from a villainous plot.
Based on the series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by Stephen Hillenburg.
Cast
Carolyn Lawrence, Tom Kenny, Wanda Sykes, Clancy Brown, Bill Fagerbakke, Mr. Lawrence, Rodger Bumpass, Johnny Knoxville, Craig Robinson, Grey Griffin, Ilia Isorelys Paulino, Matty Cardarople
Director
Liza Johnson
Spellbound
22nd November, 2024
Spellbound follows the adventures of Ellian, the tenacious young daughter of the rulers of Lumbria who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters.
Cast
Rachel Zegler, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Tituss Burgess, Nathan Lane, Javier Bardem, Nicole Kidman
Director
Vicky Jenson
That Christmas
December 2024
Based on the charming trilogy of children’s books by beloved award-winning writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Yesterday), That Christmas follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a big mistake.
Cast
Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, Lolly Adefope, Alex Macqueen, Katherine Parkinson, Sindhu Vee, India Brown, Zazie Hayhurst, Sienna Sayer, Jack Wisniewski, Rosie Cavaliero, Paul Kaye, Guz Khan, Andy Nyman, Kuhu Agarwal, Bronte Smith, Freddie Spry, Ava Talbot, with Bill Nighy and Rhys Darby.
Director
Simon Otto
In Your Dreams
2025
In Your Dreams is a comedy adventure about 12-year-old Stevie and her little brother, 8-year-old Elliot, who journey into the absurd landscape of their own dreams. If the siblings can withstand a snarky stuffed giraffe, zombie breakfast foods, and the queen of nightmares, the Sandman will grant them their ultimate dream come true … the perfect family.
Cast
Simu Liu, Craig Robinson
Director
Alex Woo
K-Pop Demon Hunters (Working Title)
2025
K-Pop: Demon Hunters is a musical action adventure that follows the story of a world-renowned K-pop girl group, as its members balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as badass demon hunters. It’s all set against a colorful backdrop of fashion, food, style, and the most popular music movement of this generation.
Directors
Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
Plankton: The Movie
2025
Plankton’s world is flipped upside down when his plan for world domination is thwarted.
Based on the series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by Stephen Hillenburg.
Cast
Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass
Director
Dave Needham
Pookoo
2025
Pookoo is a buddy comedy about a small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of The Valley, who set off on the adventure of a lifetime.
Director
Nathan Greno
The Twits
2025
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits’ beloved tricks –– from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times, about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy.
Cast
Margo Martindale, Johnny Vegas, Natalie Portman, Emilia Clarke
Director
Phil Johnston
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
This Winter
Aardman’s four-time Academy Award–winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award–nominated Merlin Crossingham return with a brand-new epic adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. In this next installment, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master … or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
Cast
Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith, Diane Morgan, Adjoa Andoh, Muzz Khan, Lenny Henry
Directors
Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
ANIME
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie
Part 1 / Part 2
22nd August, 2024
This film covers the Shadow Galactica arc, which is the final chapter of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series. Sailor Moon must stand up and fight once again when a new enemy called Shadow Galactica, an organization bent on destroying everything and ruling the universe, begins eliminating her friends one by one. Her task requires her to persevere when solitude threatens to overwhelm her. Will she be able to protect those she loves? What awaits her beyond the battle? Sailor Moon fights on despite the pressure of her self-imposed mission as the final chapter of the beautiful and strong Sailor Guardians begins.
Director
Tomoya Takahashi
Tokyo Override
2024
In AI-optimized Tokyo 100 years in the future, an orphan teenage hacker blends in until a favor for her only friend inadvertently draws her into a benevolent gang of outcast motorcyclists, uncovering the seemingly utopian city’s sinister underbelly through a murder investigation linked to a drug syndicate. The series is directed by Yusuke Fukada and Veerapatra Jinanavin in collaboration with Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Directors
Yuske Fukada, Veerapatra Jinanavin
Leviathan
2025
In 1914, on the eve of war, a fugitive prince and a girl in disguise meet aboard a bioengineered airship, the HMS Leviathan, and change the course of history. Based on Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, illustrated by Keith Thompson.
Director
Christophe Ferreira
ADULT SERIES
Exploding Kittens
12th July, 2024
Earth sucks, so God (Tom Ellis) gets fired and sent to Earth to reconnect with humanity. The catch? He’s trapped in the body of a chubby house cat. As part of his rehabilitation, he moves in with a dysfunctional family and tries to solve their problems, but ends up spending a lot of time chasing laser pointers. And to top it off, Godcat’s next-door neighbor, who is also a cat, turns out to be none other than his nemesis, the Antichrist. The result is the ultimate fight between good versus evil … except, Godcat (Ellis) is distracted by a pigeon he saw in the yard and Devilcat (Sasheer Zamata) is busy napping on someone’s laptop.
Cast
Tom Ellis, Sasheer Zamata, Suzy Nakamura, Mark Proksch, Ally Maki, Kenny Yates
Show runners
Shane Kosakowski, Matthew Inman
Terminator Zero
29th August, 2024
2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity.
Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.
Show runner
Mattson Tomlin
Director
Masashi Kudo
Twilight of the Gods
Fall 2024
The animated series brings Zack Snyder’s daring and spectacular vision of ancient Norse mythology to life, and features the voices of Sylvia Hoeks, Stuart Martin, Pilou Asbaek, John Noble, Paterson Joseph, Rahul Kohli, Jamie Clayton, Kristopher Hivju, Peter Stormare, Jamie Chung, Lauren Cohan, and Corey Stoll, among others.
Created By
Zack Snyder, Jay Olivia, Eric Carrasco
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
10th October, 2024
The animated series ‘Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft’ picks up after the events of the highly successful Tomb Raider video game Survivor trilogy (Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider), and will chart the globe-trotting heroine’s next chapter as the iconic adventurer. More than 25 years after her first appearance, Lara Croft (voiced by Hayley Atwell) continues to explore ancient mysteries and uncover lost truths across breathtaking and dangerous destinations.
W
Hayley Atwell, Allen Maldonado, Earl Baylon
Show runner and Executive Producer
Tasha Huo
Arcane Season 2
November 2024
The award-winning animated series returns.
Cast
Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell
Created By
Christian Linke, Alex Yee
Big Mouth
Season 8 (Final Season)
2025
‘Big Mouth’ is the critically acclaimed and Emmy-winning adult animated comedy about the glorious nightmare that is puberty. Inspired by Kroll and Goldberg’s childhoods, it follows a group of friends and their hormone monsters as they navigate adolescence, human sexuality, and coming of age. The final season, which will air in 2025, will make Big Mouth the longest running series in Netflix history, outside of Kids and Family programming.
Cast
Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Ayo Edebiri, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Andrew Rannells, Jordan Peele
Co-Creators
Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
The Undervale
Coming soon
A single mother of two struggles to run a haunted hotel with the help of her estranged brother, who is now one of the ghosts haunting the hotel and thinks the other ghosts have some pretty good ideas.
Creator
Matt Roller
FAMILY SERIES
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Season 2
Fall 2024
Set six years after the events at Camp Cretaceous, members of “The Nublar Six” are struggling to find their footing off the islands, navigating a world now filled with dinosaurs and people who want to hurt them. Reunited in the wake of a tragedy, the group comes together only to find themselves on the run and catapulted into a global adventure to unravel a conspiracy that threatens dinosaurs and humankind alike and finally learn the truth about what happened to one of their own.
Cast
Paul-Mikél Williams, Sean Giambrone, Darren Barnet, Raini Rodriguez, Kausar Mohammed
Show runners
Scott Kreamer, Aaron Hammersley
Executive Producers
Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow, Frank Marshall
Jentry Chau vs the Underworld
2024
The series follows Jentry Chau (voiced by Ali Wong), a Chinese-American teen living in a small Texas town, who finds out a demon king is hunting her for the supernatural powers she’s been working her whole life to repress. With the help of her weapons expert great-aunt and a millennia-old jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampire), Jentry must now fight an entire underworld’s worth of monsters while balancing the horrors of high school.
Cast
Ali Wong, Bowen Yang, Lori Tan Chinn, Lucy Liu, Jimmy O. Yang, Sheng Wang, Woosung Kim
Creator
Echo Wu
Motel Transylvania
2025
Motel Transylvania is open for business, as Drac and Mavis take a break from their Transylvanian haunts to set up a brand new resort for humans and monsters in the California desert. Vampires and sunshine … what can go wrong!? Motel Transylvania will be coming to Netflix next year.
Wolf King
2025
Based on the Wereworld books by Curtis Jobling, ‘Wolf King’ is an epic fantasy adventure series that follows Drew Ferran, as he comes of age and discovers he’s the last of a long line of Werewolves, and rightful (yet reluctant) ruler of a land governed by Werelords. Drew must fight to abolish the tyranny of the Lion lords and reclaim the throne. The series is directed by Tom Brass for Jellyfish Pictures and produced by Angelo Abela, Tim Compton, Curtis Jobling, and Barry Quinn for Lime Pictures.
Director
Tom Brass
Ghostbusters (working title)
Coming soon
Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation are developing an animated series based on the beloved Ghostbusters IP, which will be debuted exclusively on Netflix. The high-end series is part of the streamer’s elevated family animation lineup, delivering irreverent supernatural comedy and thrilling visual spectacle.
Executive Producers
Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan
Minecraft
Coming soon
Netflix and Mojang Studios are in development on an animated series based on one of the most significant and popular games of all time, Minecraft. The series will debut exclusively on Netflix and will feature an original story with new characters, showing the world of ‘Minecraft’ in a new light. The new CG-animated Minecraft series is in development with WildBrain, the talented studio behind such popular animated Netflix shows as Sonic Prime, Ninjago: Dragons Rising, and Carmen Sandiego.
PRESCHOOL
Gabby’s Dollhouse
Season 10
5th August, 2024
Gabby and Pandy are excited to get tiny and give a cat-tastic Dollhouse welcome to their newest kitty friend, Marty the Party Cat! Marty and his a-meow-zing new home in the Dollhouse, the Party Room, are filled with endless surprises, and with a wave of his magical “party tail” the Party Room can transform into any celebration you could imagine! A visit from wise Grandma CatRat, a magical wishing well, and Gabby’s birthday party lead to sprinkle-riffic adventures and whoopsies along the way in Gabby’s Dollhouse — where there’s always a reason to celebrate!
Cast
Laila Lockhart Kraner, Logan Bailey, Darren Criss, Tara Strong, Donovan Patton, Juliet Donenfeld, Maggie Lowe, Secunda Wood, Sainty Nelsen, Eduardo Franco, Carla Tassara
Creators and Executive Producers
Traci Paige Johnson, Jennifer Twomey
CoComelon Lane
19th August, 2024
From the team behind the beloved Netflix series CoComelon Lane comes CoComelon Lane: The Nursery Rhyme Musical, premiering on Netflix Aug. 19. In the 30-minute special episode, Cece and her friends want to do something special to celebrate their teacher, so they put on a musical based on all of their favorite classic nursery rhymes!
Show runners
Guy Toubes, Brandon Violette
Hot Wheels Let’s Race
Season 2
Fall 2024
Based on the No. 1 selling toy in the world, Hot Wheels Let’s Race is a high-octane series that ignites and unlocks the challenger spirit within every racer! The series follows the newest generation of racers as they experience mind-blowing races, extreme stunt contests, and thrill-seeking challenges.
Developed By
Rob David, Melanie Shannon, Jordan Gershowitz