Mattel Films
Film division and subsidiary of Mattel
Follow Mattel Films on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| July 21 2023 | Barbie film released in theaters worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, grossing over $1.4 billion and becoming the #1 highest-grossing movie in Warner Bros. Pictures' 100-year history. |
| July 2022 | Mattel Films and Skydance announced the development of a live-action movie based on Matchbox die-cast toy vehicles. |
| December 16 2021 | Mattel Films announced its first project based on outside intellectual property: Christmas Balloon, a film about a young girl trying to send a Christmas message to Santa via a balloon. |
| June 24 2021 | Mattel Films and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer agree to work on a live-action Polly Pocket film. |
| April 19 2021 | Mattel Films partnered with Universal Pictures and Vin Diesel's One Race Films for live-action adaptations of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Barney, and Polly Pocket. |
| October 2020 | Mattel Films announces a live-action animated Thomas & Friends film in development, to be directed by Marc Forster. |
| July 16 2020 | Mattel Films teams up with Universal Pictures for a Wishbone film adaptation. |
| January 29 2019 | Mattel Films shopped the Hot Wheels film rights to Warner Bros. after the option with Legendary Entertainment expired. |
| January 7 2019 | Announced that Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling would star in the Barbie film, to be co-produced with Warner Bros. Pictures and LuckyChap Entertainment. |
| September 6 2018 | Mattel Films is officially revived and reformed, reestablishing the company's film production capabilities. |
| October 20 2016 | The live-action Max Steel film critically and commercially failed, leading to Mattel Playground Productions being absorbed into Mattel Creations. |
| June 20 2016 | Ever After High web series concludes its run. |
| April 3 2016 | Monster High animated shorts and web series concluded. |
| March 31 2016 | Mattel places the film production division within the newly created Mattel Creations division and absorbs its original operations. |
| January 2016 | David Voss leaves PGP division for Loot Crate subscription service. |
| October 16 2014 | Barbie and the Secret Door CGI-animated film released by Rainmaker Entertainment. |
| June 7 2014 | Team Hot Wheels animated series launched, including a 22-minute origin story and 11 two-minute shorts. |
| March 17 2014 | Mattel PGP launched an online short form series WWE Slam City in collaboration with WWE. |
| October 26 2013 | Mattel launched Playground Productions (PGP) as its in-house film studio, with its first animated project being Team Hot Wheels: The Origin of Awesome!. |
| October 20 2013 | First Monster High animated shorts and web series released on YouTube. |
| October 16 2013 | Mattel Playground Productions is initially formed as part of Mattel Global Brands, establishing the company's first dedicated film production division. |
| May 30 2013 | Mattel Playground Productions begins the Ever After High web series with the first 'Legacy Day' 15-minute special. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Mattel Films, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.