Just Shapes and Beats: The Movie

"It's Just Shapes and Beats"

- Slogan

Just Shapes & Beats: The Movie is a 2027  computer-animated adventure musical film produced by Netflix Animation, Reel FX Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks with animation services provided by Pearl Studios while distributed by Netflix. The film is based on the popular action rhythm video game of the same name, developed and published by the Canadian indie game studio, Berzerk Studio association with too. Now following the big blue Cube, simply named Cube and the main character, Blue Squre, who named Cyan for the film.

The movie had a limited theatrical release on May 31, 2027, in honor of Just Shapes and Beats anniversary, prior to streaming on Netflix on April 16th. It received generally positive reviews and receptions from critics and audiences around the world and with was a success at the box office. A possible sequel or TV series is currently in the works as said by Berezerk Studio, though it unknown whether or not if Netflix will greenlight the idea.

Synopsis
In Paradise, a world filled with shapely people who love their music, A cube named Cyan, was created from the tree of life to protect the lands from any kind of threats. But after a triangle stabs a plant, causing it to make a giant corruption named "Blixer", resulting in it terrorizing and corrupting Paradise, it up to the cube and its friends to stop Blixer and the corruption, before it takes over their world, as troubles started to get into their paths.

Development
On January 5th, 2026 Berzerk Studio announced on a blog post that Neftlix would write and direct a brand new animated film based on their hit indie game, action rhythm Just Shapes and Beats, with the title being known as 'Just Shapes & Beats: The Movie' with Cube along with Cyan designs for the movie.

3 weeks later, Netflix officially announced it on their Twitter that they will make a movie based on the Just Shapes and Beats game. . Then they said that they will team up with Reel FX Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks with Pearl Studios setting to help the animation services.

Animation and Designs
The film was animated by Reel FX Animation in Dallas and Sony Pictures Imageworks of Vancover. The usage of 3D and CGI animation was used, but the character designs are more different from the games, loosely based off the ones in Pink Corruption, a fan comic and animated fan series by Brittany Robinson (formerly known as LucasTheDubber), while the comic was created by QuadragonX. Making them have actual bodies, rather than being simple shapes. This is mostly because this allowed for the characters to have more personalities extended from the games according to Netflix.

Release
A teaser of the film premiered at PAX 2026, New York Comic Con of 2026 before being uploaded to Netflix official channel on February 18th, 2027 as well as Berzerk Studios on February 21th, 2027. Before it was released in select theatres on May 31, 2027, before its Netflix debut on April 26th. Unlike the streaming release however, the theatrical release was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, rather than Netflix.

Home Media
Other than Netflix, the movie was released on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on June 30th, 2027, with the distribution done by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It was also broadcast in ABC Me in October 2027 and ABC Iview in Australia as well as Great! Movies in the UK and Cartoon Network Canadian counterpart in November, 2027, similarly distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.