Netflix buys animated film about Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee
Variety reports that Netflix has put down nearly $20 million at the Cannes Film Festival for the worldwide rights to Bubbles, a stop-motion animated film about Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee.
The film was co-directed by Taika Waititi (The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok) and Mark Gustafson (The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), from a script by unknown screenwriter Isaac Adamson that ranked near the top of Hollywood’s 2015 Black List.
Bubbles was produced by Dan Harmon’s Starburns Industries, which also financed the stop-motion dramedy Anomalisa — a Best Animated Feature nominee at the 2015 Academy Awards.
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