The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Nimona’ and ‘Chicken Run 2’ to be Featured on Netflix

– Netflix showcased upcoming animated projects at the Annecy International Animation Festival, including the world premiere of Nimona, an adaptation of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel.– Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the anticipated sequel to 2000’s Chicken Run, will be released on December 15.– A new clip from Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget introduced Molly, the daughter of Ginger and Rocky, who is captured and taken to a new farm. The characters devise a rescue plan.– Netflix’s upcoming projects also include Leo, a fall release about the last year of elementary school through the eyes of a talking lizard named Leo, voiced by Adam Sandler.

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NIMONA – (L to R) Ballister Boldheart (voice of Riz Ahmed) and Nimona (voice of Chloë Grace Moretz).

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As part of Netflix’s appearance this week at the Annecy International Animation Festival, the streaming service hosted a sneak peek at upcoming work and the world premiere of Nimona, the anticipated adaptation of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel coming to the platform on June 30. Additionally, the studio announced that Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Aardman Animations’ anticipated sequel to 2000’s Chicken Run — will get a Dec. 15 release.

In a new clip from the sequel to Chicken Run — from the Oscar-winning studio behind Wallace and Gromit and Shawn the Sheep — the Annecy audience was introduced to Molly (Bella Ramsey), the daughter of Chicken Run‘s Ginger (Thandiwe Newton) and Rocky (Zachary Levi). Molly is among those captured and placed in a truck carting chickens to a new fortress-like farm. After a classic Aardman chase — with Ginger, Rocky and others in hot pursuit of the truck — they begin to devise a rescue plan. Director Sam Fell (Flushed Away), producer Leyla Hobart and exec producer and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord led the presentation.

Netflix’s string of upcoming projects includes fall release Leo, described as a coming-of-age animated musical comedy about the last year of elementary school through the eyes of Leo, a 74-year-old lizard (and class pet) voiced by Adam Sandler. In the clip, a surprised girl hears her pet Leo talk for the first time. The story was written by Robert Smigel (who directed with Robert Marianetti and David Wachtenheim), Adam Sandler and Paul Sado.