Animal Friends

2025 American film

Kevin Burrows
Matt Mider

Produced by

Ryan Reynolds
Cale Boyter
Namit Malhotra

Starring

Ryan Reynolds
Jason Momoa
Vince Vaughn
Aubrey Plaza
Addison Rae
Dan Levy
Lil Rel Howery

CinematographyMagdalena GórkaEdited byDavid Heinz

Production
companies

Columbia Pictures
Legendary Pictures
Maximum Effort
Prime Focus

Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing

Release date

August 15, 2025 (2025-08-15)

CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Animal Friends is an upcoming American live-action/animated action comedy film directed by Peter Atencio and with a screenplay by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn, Aubrey Plaza, Addison Rae, Dan Levy and Lil Rel Howery.

The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 15, 2025.

Cast

Production

The project was announced in April 2023, with Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn and Aubrey Plaza announced to star, and Peter Atencio set to direct.^[1] Addison Rae would join the cast the following month.^[2] Dan Levy joined the cast in February 2024.^[3] Lil Rel Howery and Ellie Bamber would join the cast in the following months.^[4]^[5]

DNEG announced the film had entered production in June 2023.^[6]

Release

Animal Friends is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 15, 2025.^[7]

References

^ Grobar, Matt (April 18, 2023). "Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn & Aubrey Plaza Set For Legendary's Live-Action/Animation Hybrid Animal Friends; Peter Atencio Directing R-Rated Road Trip Adventure Pic". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
^ Kroll, Justin (May 12, 2023). "Addison Rae Joins Ryan Reynolds In Legendary's Animal Friends". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
^ Kroll, Justin (February 22, 2024). "Daniel Levy Joins Legendary's Animal Friends". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ "Lil Rel Howery Joins Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa in Legendary's 'Animal Friends' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. March 27, 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
^ Kroll, Justin (April 18, 2024). "Willow Star Ellie Bamber Joins Legendary's Animal Friends". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
^ "Animal Friends and The Gorge in production at DNEG". DNEG. June 30, 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 26, 2024). "'Kraven The Hunter' Heads To December, 'Karate Kid' To Chop Next Summer: Sony Release Date Changes". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 27, 2024. Retrieved April 26, 2024.

External links

Animal Friends at the Internet Movie Database

Sony theatrical animated features

Sony Pictures Animation

Open Season (2006) Surf's Up (2007) Open Season 2 (2008) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Open Season 3 (2010) The Smurfs (2011) Arthur Christmas (2011) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Hotel Transylvania (2012) The Smurfs 2 (2013) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) Goosebumps (2015) Open Season: Scared Silly (2015) Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) The Emoji Movie (2017) The Star (2017) Peter Rabbit (2018) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) Wish Dragon (2021) Vivo (2021) Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Upcoming	Fixed (TBA)

Open Season (2006)
Surf's Up (2007)
Open Season 2 (2008)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Open Season 3 (2010)
The Smurfs (2011)
Arthur Christmas (2011)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
The Smurfs 2 (2013)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
Goosebumps (2015)
Open Season: Scared Silly (2015)
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
The Emoji Movie (2017)
The Star (2017)
Peter Rabbit (2018)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
Wish Dragon (2021)
Vivo (2021)
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Upcoming

Fixed (TBA)

Madhouse

Memories (1995)
Metropolis (2001)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Paprika (2006)
Iron Man: Rise of Technovore (2013)
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)

Aniplex /
Funimation /
Crunchyroll

Rurouni Kenshin: The Motion Picture (1997)
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
Your Name (2016)
Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017)
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2018)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
Sing a Bit of Harmony (2021)
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night (2021)
Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village (2022)
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
One Piece Film: Red (2022)
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends (2022)
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie – Scarlet Bond (2023)
Suzume (2023)
Psycho-Pass Providence (2023)

Live-action/
animated

Stuart Little (1999) Stuart Little 2 (2002) Pixels (2015) Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)
Upcoming	Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) Animal Friends (2025)

Co-productions

1001 Arabian Nights (1959) The Magic World of Topo Gigio (1961) The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963) Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (1964) The Man Called Flintstone (1966) Jack and the Beanstalk (1974) American Pop (1981) Heavy Metal (1981) Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986) Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988) The Swan Princess (1994) Manuelita (1999) Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Eight Crazy Nights (2002) The Triplets of Belleville (2003) Steamboy (2004) Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) Monster House (2006) Persepolis (2007) The Sky Crawlers (2008) Waltz with Bashir (2008) Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) First Squad: The Moment of Truth (2009) Planet 51 (2009) The Illusionist (2010) Legend of the Millennium Dragon (2011) The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Zambezia (2012) Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) Resident Evil: Damnation (2012) The Angry Birds Movie (2016) Sausage Party (2016) The Red Turtle (2016) Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017) Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017) Ruben Brandt, Collector (2019) Tabaluga (2019) The Barkers: Mind the Cats! (2020) Secret Magic Control Agency (2021) Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022) Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)
Upcoming	The Garfield Movie (2024)