{"id":856478,"date":"2026-08-15T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856478\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:28:12","slug":"squishmallows-are-becoming-a-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856478\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Squishmallows&#8221; Are Becoming A Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/squishmallows-are-becoming-a-film.jpg\" data-caption=\"Artwork courtest of JazWares.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/squishmallows-are-becoming-a-film.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"squishmallows-are-becoming-a-film\"\/><\/a>Artwork courtest of JazWares.com<\/p>\n<p>Popular collectible toys Squishmallows are getting their own movie with Amazon MGM Studios reportedly developing a tentpole family film based around the brand.<\/p>\n<p>The studio is teaming with creator Jazwares and veteran film producer Beau Flynn on the project and \u201cwant to create a global-facing, four-quadrant event\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, creative attachments have yet to be revealed, and it\u2019s not even clear if this will be an animated, live-action or hybrid film.<\/p>\n<p>Your moviegoing experience is about to get a lot plusher. Squishmallows, the popular collectible toys known for softness and irreverent personalities, will come to life in a new feature film.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2017, the toys have evolved into a billion-dollar venture across 60 countries, with two of the toys sold per second.<\/p>\n<p>The current Squishmallows universe spans 3,000 original characters ranging from bigfoots and axolotls to even a sentient grilled cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Over 600 million of the toys have been sold to date, with the range also leveraged for licensing in categories like apparel, health and beauty and home d\u00e9cor. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/squishmallows-movie-amazon-mgm-beau-flynn-1236834782\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artwork courtest of JazWares.com Popular collectible toys Squishmallows are getting their own movie with Amazon MGM Studios reportedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-856478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}