‘My Little Pony’ Movie Heading Straight To Netflix Instead Of Playing In Theaters
By Ben Pearson/Feb. 12, 2021 10:30 am EST
The animated family film was once slated to hit theaters on September 24, 2021, but it will now debut on Netflix instead. It’s unclear if the film will begin streaming on that same date, but the assumption is that it will still arrive on Netflix at some point this year. It sounds like the only country in which fans will still be able to see this movie in theaters as originally intended is China.
Variety reports that Hasbro’s entertainment studio Entertainment One, which produced the new My Little Pony movie, has sold the rights to Netflix everywhere except China, where eOne will retain distribution rights.My Little Pony began as a toy line and has since spun out into a full-fledged media franchise, with multiple animated series, direct-to-video movies, and even a theatrical feature called My Little Pony: The Movie that was released in 2017.
Weirdly, though, there are practically zero details about this new movie anywhere online. Variety says the new film is directed by Robb Cullen, Jose Ucha, and Mark Fattibene, with Cecil Kramer and Peter Lewis serving as producers. But the project is not listed on any of their IMDb pages, and Lewis doesn’t even have an IMDb page. The film is not mentioned on Wikipedia, which seems especially odd for a franchise with such a huge fan base. Does this movie actually exist, or are we all caught in an elaborate Argo scenario in which the United States is trying to trick a foreign government into thinking this film is happening so we can pull off some sort of international espionage? The answer seems obvious to me, but you can draw your own conclusions.
