Paramount Animation is an American animation studio, serving as the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Paramount Global.
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14 Facts About Paramount Animation
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The following year, Paramount signed a distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation, which filled the studio's schedule with animated films including Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, the third and fourth installments of the Shrek series and How to Train Your Dragon.
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The success of Rango helped Paramount Animation discover its potential in making successful animated features on its own.
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In July 2011, in the wake of Rango's success, the high hopes for The Adventures of Tintin, and the departure of DreamWorks Animation upon completion of their distribution contract with Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Rise of the Guardians in 2012, Paramount announced the formation of a new animation division.
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Besides the SpongeBob sequel, Paramount Animation considered adapting Dora the Explorer, The Legend of Korra, and Monkey Quest into films.
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The increase in animated film production was due to DreamWorks Paramount Animation being in talks with other studios to distribute their post-2012 animated films.
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That same month, Paramount Animation fired Adam Goodman due to the studio's thin film slate and Goodman greenlighting box office bombs at the studio.
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In November 2015, Paramount Animation officially announced the project as Amusement Park, with former Pixar animator Dylan Brown helming.
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In July 2017, Paramount Pictures named former DreamWorks Animation co-president Mireille Soria as the president of the studio.
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Paramount Animation would look over the completion of Sherlock Gnomes and Wonder Park, which were in production before her arrival.
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Paramount Animation later left the company in order to become the head of animation at Nickelodeon.
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In January 2021, Paramount Animation picked up two new films: an adaption of the upcoming Tom Wheeler book C O S M O S and an original animated film from the Comedy Central star Trevor Noah.
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On September 19,2019, Paramount Animation introduced a new animated logo featuring a character nicknamed "Star Skipper".
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Paramount Animation announced that a television series based on Paramount and Nickelodeon's Wonder Park, titled Adventures in Wonder Park, would debut on Nickelodeon after the film's theatrical release.
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