The Puffin gang is again! Primarily based on the Kidscreen Awards and Royal Tv Award-winning Netflix preschool collection Puffin Rock, Puffin Rock and the New Mates is the primary animated function movie of the franchise. Tune of the Sea and The Breadwinner collaborators WestEnd Movies, Cartoon Saloon, and Canine Ears are teaming up as soon as once more for the primary animated function produced in Northern Eire, which is now in post-production.

New Mates sees Oona, Baba, Might and Mossy return, with new associates Isabelle, Phoenix and Marvin. When the final Little Egg of the season disappears below mysterious circumstances, Oona and her new associates race towards time to deliver the Little Egg house earlier than an enormous storm hits. Chris O’Dowd (My Father’s Dragon) reprises his position as Narrator, with Amy Huberman (Derry Ladies), Beth McCafferty, and Eva Whittaker (Wolfwalkers).

Northern Eire Display CEO, Richard Williams, remarked, “We’re thrilled that the Puffins are migrating to the massive display screen. Northern Eire Display has lengthy been enthusiastic supporters of Canine Ears, they’re a massively proficient and extremely pushed workforce working comfortable alongside main international names in youngsters’s programming. It comes as no shock that they’re behind the primary animated function movie to be made in Northern Eire. This information speaks volumes for the expansion and future potential of the animation sector right here. We want Canine Ears each success as they embark on this thrilling mission.”

The movie is directed by Jeremy Purcell (Joe and Jack, The Secret of Kells), with a script by Puffin Rock’s Sara Daddy. Paul Younger and Tomm Moore produce alongside Nora Twomey from Cartoon Saloon, with John McDaid and Fionnuala Deane from Canine Ears. New Mates is co-funded by Northern Eire Display, Display Eire, RTÉ, and BBC Alba. 

A launch date for the movie has not but been set.