Nelvana Studios

Nelvana Studios

Type	Subsidiary
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Computer animation Motion pictures Television
Predecessors	Blue Sky Studios
Founded 📆	March 17, 2025 (2025-03-17)
Founder 👔	Mireille Soria Carl Ludwig Eugene Troubetzkoy Alison Brown David Brown Michael Ferraro Michael Hirsh
Headquarters 🏙️	, Glendale, California , United States
Area served 🗺️
Key people	Ed Catmull (head of animation) Karen Toliver (president) Melissa Cobb (CCO)
Products 📟	Animation production Animated films
Owner	Universal Animation Studios Paramount Animation Warner Bros. Pictures Animation Sony Pictures Animation 20th Century Animation MGM Animation Studios
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Parent	Corus Entertainment
Divisions	Madrid Glendale Paris Vancouver Berlin London Connecticut
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Nelvana Studios was an American visual effects and computer animation studio based in Glendale, California. It was founded on March 17, 2025, by Mireille Soria, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy. The studio is based in Glendale, California, with offices in Madrid, Spain, Paris, France, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Berlin, Germany, London, England and Greenwich, Connecticut, the Greenwich branch was originally Blue Sky Studios. June announced its first two film Larrikins which opens on April 30, 2026, and James Bond: Licence Renewed on November 25, 2026. On June 27, 2025

History

In March 2025, Nelvana formed a movie studio division and a multi-year partnership with Greenwich, Connecticut-based animation studio Blue Sky Studios. Nelvana Studios hired former DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Animation president Mireille Soria as producer. The following month, long time Walt Disney Animation Studios president Ed Catmull was announced to have joined Nelvana Movies to develop and produce an original animated film for the studio. Robert L. Baird and Andrew Millstein, who previously served as Nelvana's Head of Production, was promoted to the position of president at Nelvana Studios.

Production logo

When Michael Ferraro came to Nelvana Studios, one of the first goals set by Jim Gianopulos was to make a logo for the division. The logo and the character of Polar Bear were designed by Under the Boardwalk production design Shannon Jeffries and Christopher Zibach and animated by Cinesite Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks. The logo's music is the same as the standard Happy Feet which is composed by John Powell.

Process

In a similar fashion to Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Illumination, Sony Pictures Animation, and Paramount Animation, Nelvana Studios outsources its animation production to other animation studios such as Cinesite, DNEG and Sony Pictures Imageworks.

Filmography

Upcoming

• Larrikins (2026) (distributed by Universal Pictures)
• James Bond: Licence Renewed (2026) (distributed by Amazon MGM Studios through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
• Untitled Hoodwinked! film (2027) (distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Flanimals (2027) (distributed by Columbia Pictures)
• Untitled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film (2027) (distributed by Paramount Pictures)

In Development

• Chuck E. Cheese's: The Birth of Fun (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
• Nature Cat: The Movie (distributed by Universal Pictures)
• True and the Rainbow Kingdom: The Movie (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
• Popeye (distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through 20th Century Studios under 20th Century Animation)
• The Bluey Movie (distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Rugrats (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
• Astro Boy: Robot Mayhem (distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Untitled Alvin and the Chimpunks reboot film (distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Untitled Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese film (distributed by Columbia Pictures)
• Untitled Happy Feet film (distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Zodiac (distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
• The ChubbChubbs! (distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through 20th Century Studios under 20th Century Animation)
• The Hanazuki Movie (distributed by Columbia Pictures)
• Stuart Little (distributed by Columbia Pictures)
• The Lalaloopsy Movie (distributed by Columbia Pictures)
• Spooky Jack (distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
• The Wild Forest (distributed by Columbia Pictures)
• The Secrets of Magdalene College: A Bethlehem Story (distributed by Columbia Pictures)
• Journey to Egypt (distributed by Columbia Pictures)

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