Playmobil Is Getting A Movie Because Of Course — cinemablend.com

The German toy company Playmobil couldn’t just let its Danish rivals dominate the toy figurine movie market without a fight. ON Entertainment, Wild Bunch and Pathe have now combined to invest $80 million in an animated Playmobil feature film, which they hope will benefit from the financial triumph of the awesome 2014 animated comedy extravaganza. According to Variety, Bob Persichetti, a Dreamworks veteran who has previously worked on Shrek 2 and Monsters vs. Aliens, has been placed in charge of developing the project. We can likely expect the finished product to have at least some similarity to the upcoming 2015 feature film adaptation of The Little Prince, which has the same animated creative team behind it.

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