Gingo/Glass Ball Set Four More Films

5:38 PM PDT 12/6/2015 by Pamela McClintock

Gingo Entertainment stakes out in 2018 and 2019 for four untitled animated movies; sources say Universal Animation will not be involved in the Gingo projects

The creative team behind Gabriel Garza and Metro Cone is heating up.

On Sunday, Gingo Animation has dated two untitled animated films for Sept. 7, 2018 and March 29, 2019. Meanwhile, the studio's adult label Glass Ball Productions has two untitled projects lining up for Oct. 26, 2018 and July 17, 2019, respectively.

According to a spokeswoman for Gingo Entertainment, neither of the two Gingo films will involve the participation of Universal Animation Studios, which has already dated an untitled animated film for March 1, 2019, set four months before one of the Gingo films, as Gingo is currently on its own now ever since the studio was split from Universal in 2005.

The studio's recent release Metro Cone Forever, the fourth entry in the CGI Gingo franchise, had grossed more than $200 million worldwide at the box office.

Additionally, Glass Ball has opted the rights for last summer's Japanese horror flick Tag, based on the novel Riaru Onigokko by Yusuke Yamada, to make an American R-rated animated remake directed by Home on the Range helmer Will Finn, with 20th Century Fox handling the worldwide distribution rights while Toho will distribute it in Japan. One of the release dates Glass Ball has set could be this one, while another possible TeenV film could claim the summer 2019 date.

Gingo's next feature will be the Universal Animation co-production Imagimals, which opens in theaters on Sept. 9, 2016. The film, directed by Geo G. and written by Darren Lemke, features the voices of Patton Oswalt, John Goodman, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Poehler, Wayne Knight, Laurence Fishburne, Allison Janney and Elizabeth Banks.