Synopsis: Seu Badú is a taxidermist with questionable taste who is madly in love with his nearsighted, absent-minded neighbor, the owner of a poor cat on the brink of starvation.
Directed by Gabriel Nóbrega. Co-Directed by Lucas René. Written by Rúbia Sproesser and Pedro Paulo de Andrade.
Release date: September 27, 2024.
Synopsis: Based on Peter Brown’s #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot follows the journey of a robot named Roz that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Robot stars Lupita Nyong’o as robot Roz; Pedro Pascal as fox Fink; Catherine O’Hara as opossum Pinktail; Bill Nighy as goose Longneck; Kit Connor as gosling Brightbill and Stephanie Hsu as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.
The film also features the voice talents of Mark Hamill, Matt Berry and Ving Rhames.
The Wild Robot is written and directed by three-time Oscar nominee Chris Sanders, the writer-director of How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Lilo & Stitch.
Release date: August 6, 2024 on Netflix.
Synopsis: Golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy’s Japan team take on gifted young golfers from the U.K. and U.S. schools in the coveted Camelot Cup.
Over the course of two seasons, this series follows the growth of third-grader Gawain Nanaumi as he encounters the sport of golf and competes with his rivals.
Rising Impact, the first serialized manga by Nakaba Suzuki, author of hit series The Seven Deadly Sins, began its run in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998.
Release date: September 13, 2024 on Paramount+.
Synopsis: In the second season, Dora and her best monkey friend, Boots, encounter new challenges, overcome tricky obstacles, and explore new fantastical territories. Kids will join Dora on her journey as she meets new friends and helps others, learning inspiring lessons through catchy songs and nonstop laughter.
Release date: September 3, 2024 on Disney Jr., with 10 episodes premiering the following day on Disney+.
Synopsis: Kindergarten: The Musical follows 5-year-old Berti who, along with her new friends, is navigating all the exciting and emotional experiences that come with starting school for the very first time.
The series takes place in a kindergarten classroom at Porter Elementary and features fantastical Broadway-style song and dance numbers that help the kids express their big feelings and provide a peek into their incredible imaginations.
Release date: January 11, 2025 on Netflix.
Synopsis: Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He’s running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can’t refuse: return to the assassin world or die!
Synopsis: Eviah, a young and timid kid on the brink of puberty, and his best friend, Tsuf, sneak into the Black Slide, the most terrifying ride in Aqua Fun. There, he will gain insight to prepare him for events about to unfold back home.
Written and directed by Uri Lotan.
Synopsis: Ever get caught drifting off mid-conversation and then asked what planet you went to? I’ve Been Thinking is a love note to those daily random streams of consciousness about what-ifs. It depicts that dreamy internal state of mind where ideas merge from one memory or imagination and form into an ethereal world.
A short film by Aran Quinn. Music Composition and Sound Design by Niall Rogers.
Release date: August 29, 2024 on Netflix.
Synopsis: 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.
Voice cast:
Timothy Olyphant (Terminator)
André Holland (Malcolm Lee)
Rosario Dawson (Eiko)
Ann Dowd (The Prophet)
Sonoya Mizuno (Kokoro)
Created and executive produced by Mattson Tomlin. Directed by Masashi Kudo. Animated by Production I.G.
Release date: November 22, 2024 on Netflix.
Synopsis: Spellbound follows a tenacious young princess who must go on a daring quest to save her family and their kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters.
Synopsis: Alone In The Darkness is about exactly what the title suggests — how everyone, at one point or another, has to face demons within that only they can see. People can try to run from what torments them, but eventually, they have to confront their fears and anxieties head-on or risk being puppeted by their demons for their entire lives.
Siamés is an Argentine electropop group founded by Guillermo Stölzing (vocals and guitar) and Juan Manuel Kokollo (keyboard and synthesizer).
Directed by Danny Robashkin. A MAKE Originals production.
Siamés kicks off their latest tour in Brazil on September 21, 2024.
Release date: August 12, 2024 on Hulu.
Synopsis: Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens who are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome.
Korvo (Dan Stevens) and Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone) only see the pollution, crass consumerism, and human frailty while Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse (Mary Mack) love TV, junk food and fun stuff.
On season 5, now that alien mission partners Terry and Korvo are married, the whole Solar Opposites team are focused on family values.
Release date: December 5, 2024 on HBO Max.
Synopsis: Creature Commandos tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails… they’re your last, worst option.
Voice cast:
Steve Agee as Economos
Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana
Anya Chalotra as Circe
Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky
Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr.
Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel
David Harbour as Frankenstein
Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus
Indira Varma as The Bride
Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
Written and executive produced by James Gunn.
Release date: October 17, 2024 on Netflix.
Synopsis: Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance is composed of six 30-minute episodes focusing on the European front of the One Year War, which was the setting of the first Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam.
The series is written by Gavin Hignight, who wrote the animated series Tekken: Bloodline and Transformers: Cyberverse, as well as the video game Marvel’s Spider-Man and is directed by Erasmus Brosdau, who has worked on the animated series Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness and the video games Star Citizen, Ryse: Son of Rome and Crysis.
Release date: September 20, 2024.
Synopsis: Transformers One is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
Voice cast:
Chris Hemsworth as Optimus Prime
Brian Tyree Henry as Megatron
Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1
Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee
Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion
Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime
Steve Buscemi as Starscream
Isaac C. Singleton Jr. as Darkwing
Vanessa Liguori as Airachnid
Jason Konopisos-Alvarez as Shockwave
Jon Bailey as Soundwave
Evan Michael Lee as Jazz
Directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4). Written by Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man and the Wasp) and Eric Pearson (Godzilla vs. Kong).
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