Popular streaming service Netflix is gearing up to release not one nor two but six animated movies next year and beyond. The streaming giant plans to release six original animated movies per year.
That's three times the amount that even giants such as Disney and Pixar release. For instance, Pixar released Onward earlier this year and are set to drop Soul on December 25th — more on that here.
Netflix has had such successes with their original animated movies as Klaus, which was nominated for the "Best Animated Feature" Academy Award, and The Willoughbys.
With the latter of those animated movies having released back in April and another, Over the Moon, coming later this year; 2020 will have birthed a total of two Netflix original animated movies. It's believe that the streaming service will accomplish their goal of six movies per year by 2022 at the latest.
Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO, provided a statement to Variety on the matter.
Our animation ambition right now is not just to step up and be as big as someone who’s doing it today. We’re on a path to be releasing six animated features a year, which no major studio has ever done, on top of the very healthy slate of animated series.
The way we think about those things is not to say, ‘Well, how do we do it like someone else has done it?’ Because no one’s ever really done most of these functions at the scale that we’re doing, and the only way you could do that is to have a really trusted team, who will make decisions and take them seriously and own them.