According to speculations, the next Gore Verbinski film, Cattywumpus is currently being shopped around to various studios instead of being released on Netflix as originally intended. Situations like these are common in animated films; examples include Soul and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World by Pixar and DreamWorks Animation. What studios Verbinski would contact with his new project and how far along it is in the production process are both unknown at this moment. Cats will be found in space in Verbinski’s second animated film, Cattywumpus, which follows the Oscar-winning Rango from 2012.
Netflix is thought to have granted Verbinski the go-ahead to shop the movie around due to the continuously changing pace of their animated division. The animation group accounted for over half of the 150 employees that the well-known streamer eliminated in May. When queried about the issue by Deadline, Netflix replied, “Slowing revenue growth implies we are also needing to decrease our spending growth as a company.”
Unexpectedly, Netflix has established itself as a leading animation studio. The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Back to the Outback, The Sea Beast, and The House are recent releases from the streamer. Several Netflix animated movies have won awards and received great recognition, including The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ nomination for an Academy Award and If Anything Happens, I Love You’s victory. In addition, Netflix developed the animated shows Battle Kitty, Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, and the upcoming Bee and Puppycat. Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, Wendell & Wild by Henry Selick, Thelma the Unicorn, Nimona, Ultraman, I, Chihuahua, and My Father’s Dragon are some of the upcoming animated movies on Netflix.
The cumulative box office receipts for all of director Paul Verbinski’s works is $3.76 billion. The commercial hits Mouse Hunt, The Mexican, and The Ring, all of which made over $100 million at the box office, are among Verbinski’s early works. The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, and At World’s End, three films in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, may have been Verbinski’s most lucrative cinematic venture. The box financial failures of Verbinski’s most recent two releases, The Lone Ranger and A Cure for Wellness, suggested that Cattywumpus would mark his comeback.
