Cartoon Network Movies (British film studio)

Cartoon Network Movies, founded and formerly known as Cartoon Network Theatrical Studios until 2006, was a British motion picture production studio and the film division of Cartoon Network, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio was founded on May 18, 1998 by Russian-American animator Genndy Tartakovsky and was known for producing and releasing feature-length motion pictures based on existing Cartoon Network properties, with their film library including Dexter's Laboratory: Chemical Chaos (1999), The Marvelous Johnny Bravo Movie (2001), The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002), The Ed, Edd n Eddy Movie (2004), The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Movie (2006), The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Movie (2007), The Powerpuff Girls (2008), The Amazing Movie of Gumball (2016), and much more.

On April 8, 2022, amidst the WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. merger, Cartoon Network Movies shut down, with Cartoon Network Studios succeeding for any further motion picture adaptations of their intellectual properties.

1998-2000; Founding, initial success
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2001-2006; Box office plummets, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, comeback, company re-name
In July 2001, The Marvelous Johnny Bravo Movie, a movie based on the animated series Johnny Bravo, was released in theatres. While it was positively received critically, it was a financial failure, with a box office return of $62.7 million against its budget of $20-30 million. The main aspect to why it underperformed was because of the poor marketing attempts by Warner Bros. Pictures, the distributor for the film. Reviewers criticized the marketing campaigns, with many calling it "unconvincing" and "misleading".

In July 2002, a year after The Marvelous Johnny Bravo Movie, Cartoon Network released its fourth theatrical motion picture titled The Powerpuff Girls Movie. Like the Johnny Bravo movie, it underperformed at the box office, with a return of $16.4 million against its budget of $11 million. While the marketing was at least an improvement over Johnny Bravo 's marketing, critics gave criticism toward the film's plot and runtime, which made it drag. Cartoon Network Theatrical Studios was on the verge of going bankrupt, with the studio planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2004. But all of what happened changed with The Ed, Edd n Eddy Movie, a 2004 adventure film based on the series Ed, Edd n Eddy. To positive reviews, the film became a smash hit at the box office, with a worldwide gross of $348 million against its budget of $18-22 million.

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2007-2015; Continued success, expansion of business
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2016-2022; Last productions, WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. merger, closure
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