Pip Ahoy!: The Movie

Pip Ahoy!: The Movie is an upcoming 2024 animated musical adventure film based on children's television series "Pip Ahoy!". The film was produced by Lionsgate Animation and Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick Entertainment, using traditional animation created with Toon Boom Harmony and outsourced to South Korea at NE4U. It premiered in the United States on July 19, 2024 by Paramount and in United Kingdom by StudioCanal.

Premise
When Pip and friends have mission to saves Salty Cove and help the Mice Pirates to find the treasure!

Cast

 * Teresa Gallagher as Pip (UK Dub), Aubrey Snail, Aisha and Amir
 * Emma Tate as Alba (UK Dub) and Billy
 * David Jason as Skipper (UK Dub) and Pasty
 * Jimmy Hibbert as Hopper and Shelvis
 * Jason Alexander as Morris Maurice
 * Amanda Root as Mrs. Twitcher
 * Lena Headey as Madame Eclair
 * Christian Bale, Andy Serkis and Benedict Cumberbatch as The Mice Pirates
 * Kerry Shale as Giant Grasshopper
 * Alec Baldwin as Alan
 * Julia Roberts as Professor Evie
 * Robby Benson and Julie Nathanson as Mr. and Mrs. Snail
 * Stacey Solomon as Fuchsia
 * Brian Trueman as Rocktopus
 * Wallace Shawn, Gilbert Gottfried and Cheech Marin as Kevin, Cyril and Percy
 * Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Pip (US Dub) and Alba (US Dub)
 * David Kaye as Skipper (US Dub)

Production
Pip Ahoy!: The Movie was first conceived in 2019, When Brian Cosgrove meet John Offord for the offer to make an Animated Musical Film Based on Pip Ahoy!. StudioCanal agreed to finance the film in 2020, putting their finances into script development and model design. Paramount officially came on board in 2021. Paramount beat out studios like Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. and largely won due to the perseverance of Paramount Animation chairman Connor Sentance. Sentance explained that he had "been chasing these guys for five or six years, ever since I first saw Pip Ahoy!." Paramount secured the distribution in all territories except Europe, which StudioCanal handled. The two studios co-financed the film. Paramount also retains rights to worldwide merchandising.

This film was the first Pip Ahoy! media to use traditional animation created with Toon Boom Harmony, rather than the Flash animation used in the show, and blended Cel Shaded CGI with 2D animation. The film was produced in a widescreen 2.40:1 aspect ratio, to distinguish it from the look of the television series and colored with the largest palette the animators ever had available to them. A lot of the animation was produced using Wacom Cintiq tablets, which allowed images to be drawn directly onto a computer monitor to facilitate production. Animation production work was done by NE4U in Seoul, South Korea. As with the television series, the storyboarding, characters, background layout, and animatic parts of production, were done in the United Kingdom. NE4U completed the inbetweening, digital ink and paint, and rendered the animation to tape before being shipped back to the United Kingdom.

Two songs were cut from the film during production mainly because Sentance Felt Like it would cause the Movie to have its G Rating be changed to a PG. The first revolves around Skipper in a nightmare sequence where The Mice Pirates criticizes his sailing career through a song. The second is a Version of Copacabana sang by Pip.

Music
''See page: Pip Ahoy! The Movie/Soundtrack''

Release Dates
''See page: Pip Ahoy! The Movie/Release Dates''

In Theaters

 * July 19, 2024 (International)

Trivia

 * This is Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick's first animated feature film.