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Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
Warner Bros. Pictures Unveils Release Date For Chinese Co-Production ‘Tom And Jerry: Forbidden Compass'
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Pictures will release Chinese co-produced animated feature Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass on August 9 in China. The film is set to make its world premiere at the ongoing Shanghai International Film Festival. More from Deadline 'Legend of Mecha Scholars' Gets Global Distribution In Ad Astra, DRock Cultural Exchange Initiative Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan Films Among Kung Fu Classics Set For AI Restorations Donald Trump Extends Deadline For TikTok Divestiture Again - Update Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass follows the iconic cat-and-mouse duo as they accidentally travel through time in a museum. Along their journey, they meet a group of intriguing new companions and become involved in a final showdown with mysterious forces. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures in China, Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass will be distributed in the country by Wu Zhou Film Distribution Co. Ltd. Chinese director Zhang Gang helmed the project, after previously co-directing Kuiba 3. Zhang also worked on the animation for No.7 Cherry Lane, which won the Best Screenplay Award in the main competition section at the Venice International Film Festival in 2019. This is not the first time that Warner Bros. has adapted the Tom and Jerry IP into a localized version for an Asian market. In 2023, WBD made its first-ever localized version of Tom and Jerry, set in Singapore. This premiered as a series of shorts on Cartoon Network and HBO Go across various Asian territories, before a global rollout. Another series of Tom and Jerry shorts was also made for Japanese audiences. This year marks the 85th anniversary of Tom and Jerry, after the duo was first created in 1940 as an animated cartoon series by William Hanna and Joseph of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg
Geek Tyrant
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Trailer For The TOM & JERRY Anime Series TOM AND JERRY GOKKO — GeekTyrant
Tom and Jerry have been through a lot in their 80+ years with exploding kitchens, destroyed pianos, the occasional truce, but now they're heading into new territory… anime. Warner Bros. has dropped the trailer for Tom and Jerry Gokko , an all-new Japanese-produced series that reimagines the classic cat-and-mouse duo through a softer, slice-of-life lens, and it's coming to English-speaking audiences. The series originally aired exclusively in Japan on Cartoon Network Japan starting in November 2022, and just wrapped its latest episode in May 2025. While no firm release date for the English version was announced, Tom and Jerry Gokko will be streaming for free on the WB Kids YouTube channel sometime 'soon.' The show is co-produced by Warner Bros. Japan and draws some of its visual inspiration from the Tom and Jerry: Seven Colors manga. This isn't your typical high-energy, slapstick-fueled rivalry. In Tom and Jerry Gokko , Tom and Jerry are more like playful frenemies than bitter enemies. Sure, the trailer shows them messing with each other here and there, but the tone is gentler, more kid-friendly, and less chaotic than the vintage shorts or even some of the modern adaptations. It's clearly aimed at a younger demographic, with pastel colors, cute designs, and calmer pacing, far from the anvil-dropping chaos we grew up with. It's a strategy that makes sense in the current streaming era where younger audiences live on platforms like YouTube. Plus, with anime continuing to dominate global pop culture, fusing the Tom and Jerry brand with that visual language is a smart move by Warner Bros. Yeah, longtime fans might miss the classic cartoon carnage, but Gokko isn't trying to replace the original mayhem, it's just a new angle on two characters that have been around longer than most of us. We'll just have to wait and see whether it lands with nostalgic fans or clicks with preschoolers.
