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Feb 22, 2024 · In January of 2021, Megan Ellison got a call from Erik Lomis, the former head of distribution at her company, Annapurna Pictures, asking if she’d like to take a look at a movie whose filmmakers...
Feb 22, 2024 · “I had never seen a character like Nimona in a film, let alone an animated family movie,” Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures’ founder, told the Hollywood Reporter about her first reaction to...
- Who Is Nimona?
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Troy Quane and Nick Bruno, the directors behind Spies in Disguise who would turn Nimonainto an animated feature film, remember why the original webcomic, which was later published by HarperCollins as a graphic novel, made such an impact. "It was this really funny, irreverent love letter to anybody who's ever felt misunderstood and different within ...
Quane and Bruno first heard about Nimona, the movie, while working at Blue Sky, the now-shuttered animation studio behind Ice Ageand the first home for the film. It wasn't something they could ignore. Everyone seemed to be talking about it after the studio acquired it. "We were both working on Spies in Disguise," Quane remembers. "They put together...
Nimona, it turns out, wasn't down for the count. Stevenson had heard the film was about 10 months away from being fully completed at the time of Blue Sky's closure, which meant they had actual footage they could show around town. It was Megan Ellison at Annapurna who saw said footage and vowed to keep the project alive. By April 2022, streaming gia...
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Dec 13, 2023 · Support, said Bruno, came from Annapurna founder Megan Ellison and later from producers at Netflix. “Megan Ellison picked it up and said, ‘What do you want to do?’ because she felt this was ...
Feb 29, 2024 · The film production had to deal with a director change after Patrick Osborne left the project over creative differences, a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic (Covid-19), a merger, and studio pushback. Netflix expressed interest in the film but wanted a partner.
Mar 6, 2024 · When Ellison picked up this Disney cast-off and partnered with Netflix, the movie got an Oscar nomination and she launched Annapurna Animation.
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Mar 8, 2024 · After Nimona’s original studio, Blue Sky, was closed during the Fox-Disney merger, the project found a new home at Annapurna Animation and Netflix, defying all odds.
