EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Photos will launch Chinese language co-produced animated characteristic Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass on August 9 in China.
The movie is about to make its world premiere on the ongoing Shanghai Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass follows the long-lasting cat-and-mouse duo as they unintentionally journey by way of time in a museum. Alongside their journey, they meet a bunch of intriguing new companions and change into concerned in a closing showdown with mysterious forces.
Produced by Warner Bros. Photos in China, Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass can be distributed within the nation by Wu Zhou Movie Distribution Co. Ltd.
Chinese language director Zhang Gang helmed the mission, after beforehand co-directing Kuiba 3.
Zhang additionally labored on the animation for No.7 Cherry Lane, which gained the Finest Screenplay Award in the primary competitors part on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2019.
This isn’t the primary time that Warner Bros. has tailored the Tom and Jerry IP right into a localized model for an Asian market.
In 2023, WBD made its first-ever localized model of Tom and Jerry, set in Singapore. This premiered as a collection of shorts on Cartoon Community and HBO Go throughout numerous Asian territories, earlier than a world rollout.
One other collection of Tom and Jerry shorts was additionally made for Japanese audiences.
This 12 months marks the eighty fifth anniversary of Tom and Jerry, after the duo was first created in 1940 as an animated cartoon collection by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
