Aardman

Aardman returns to the top-10 producers list, capping off a busy year that saw it launch new series The Very Small Creatures on Sky Kids, as well as The Flight Before Christmas on Netflix and the BBC. The British studio also produced the short Our Planet Now Winning, based on a child’s idea, which it premiered for world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26. This is in addition to taking home a British Animation Award for its Netflix movie Robin, Robin and lining up a new feature film with Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha.

DreamWorks had a lot to celebrate last year. Its feature The Bad Guys was a hit, earning more than US$250 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. (The film was also the first project greenlit by new president Margie Cohn, who stepped into the role in 2019.) In TV news, Netflix has ordered six seasons of its popular preschool series Gabby’s Dollhouse. And on Madagascar: A Little Wild, the studio brought in ASL and deaf representation experts, and featured a voice actor who is hearing-impaired.