In 2024, Get ready for a blast of animated fun! With upcoming movies featuring your favourite characters and exciting new stories, this year’s line-up promises to delight audiences of all ages. From laughter to heart-warming moments, get set to be swept away by the magic of animation like never before. It’s going to be a year of pure joy and entertainment with these upcoming animated movies!
Kung Fu Panda 4 [Release Date: 8th march]
The fourth installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise is here. The martial arts comedy film is going to follow Po (Jack Black) as he attempts to find inner peace and become the spiritual leader of the Valley Of Peace and search for a successor and train them to be the Dragon Warrior while confronting a new foe sets her eyes on his Staff of Wisdom called âThe Chameleonâ (Viola Davis) a shapeshifting sorceress who possesses the ability to resurrect POâs formidable foeâs from the past and take their martial arts ability for herself.
Action
Adventure
Animation
Martial Arts
Starring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, Awkwafina, Viola Davis, Ke Huye Quan, Ian Mcshane.
Director: Mike Mitchell.
Producer: Rebecca Huntley,
Music: Hans Zimmer.
Release Details: The movie is scheduled to be theatrically released by Universal Pictures in the United States on 8th March and 29th March in India.
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Despicable Me 4 [Release Date: 3rd July]
The Despicable Me franchise is back at it to make us laugh with its fourth movie installment. The movie follows Gru (Steve Carell), the worldâs favourite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League agent, who returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem, alongside his wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig), their three adopted girls Margo, Edith and Agnes and the newest member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. The family is forced to go on the run when they become targeted by escaped criminal Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Sofia Vergara).
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Starring: Steve Carell, Kristen Wigg, Will Ferrell, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Madison Polan, Sofia Vergara, Joey King, Stephan Colbert, Chloe Fineman, Pierre Coffin, Steve Coogen.
Directors: Chris Renaud, Patrick Delage.
Producers: Chris Meledandri, Brett Hoffman.
Release Details: The movie is scheduled to be theatrically released by Universal Pictures in the United States on 3rd July.
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The Garfield Movie 2024 [Release Date: 24th May]
The Garfield Movie is based on a comic strip of the same name created by Jim Davis in 1978; it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog.
Garfield (Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father a scruffy street cat Vic (Samuel L. Jackson) Garfield and his canine friend Odie (Harvey Guillén) are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Family
Starring: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang.
Director: Mark Dindal
Producers: Namit Malhotra, John Cohen, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Steven P. Wegner, Craig Sost.
Music: John Debney
Release Details: The movie is scheduled to be theatrically released by Sony Pictures in the United States on 24th May.
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Inside Out 2 [Release Date: 14th June]
The sequel to the critically acclaimed movie Inside Out is here, now with even more complex emotions to tackle in a growing teenager.
Inside Out 2 follows Riley now a newly minted teenager just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Family
Drama
Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Maya Hawke.
Director: Kelsey Mann.
Producer: Mark Nielsen.
Release Details: The movie is scheduled to be released in theatres by Walt Disney Pictures in United States on 14th June.
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IF (Imaginary Friends) [Release Date: 17th May]
IF follows a young girl named Bea (Cailey Fleming) who goes through a difficult experience and gains the ability to see people’s imaginary friends, referred to as “IFs” for short, who have been abandoned by the kids they helped who have now grown up. Bea then discovers that her neighbour, The Man Upstairs (Ryan Reynolds), has the same ability. So Bea takes it upon herself to find new homes for the kooky creatures.
Comedy
Drama
Family
Fantasy
Starring: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Awkwafina, Louis Gossett Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, Liza ColĂłn-Zayas, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Stewart, Vince Vaughn.
Director: John Krasinski.
Producers: John Krasinski, Allyson Seeger, Andrew Form, Ryan Reynolds.
Music: Michael Giacchino.
Released Details: IF is scheduled to be released in theatres by Paramount Pictures on 17th May.
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That wraps up our list Of- Upcoming Animation Movies of 2024.