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Feb 22, 2024 · The Annapurna Pictures founder picked up the animated feature after Disney balked at its LGBTQ themes and closed its studio, Blue Sky Animation, in 2021. Now the Netflix movie is an Oscar...
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 needed a lifeline.
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.
Dec 13, 2023 · “Megan Ellison picked it up and said, ‘What do you want to do?’ because she felt this was the movie that she needed when she was a kid,” he recalled. “Then Netflix picked us up, and they were...
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.
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.
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“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 animated storyboards for Nimona, as Disney prepared to announce its intent to close Blue Sky Studios, acquired during the Fox merger, in February of 2021.
