{"id":925435,"date":"2026-10-12T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:08:09","slug":"gnome-alone-sequel-game-of-gnomes-coming-from-nut-job-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925435\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gnome Alone&#8217; Sequel &#8216;Game Of Gnomes&#8217; Coming From &#8216;Nut Job&#8217; Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: SC Films International has started production on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gnome-alone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gnome-alone\" data-tag=\"gnome-alone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gnome Alone<\/a>: Game of Gnomes, the sequel to its animated family movie from 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPeter Lepeniotis (The Nut Job) is returning to write and direct. SC Films is producing and will launch worldwide sales at the American Film Market next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film marks the first collaboration under a multi-picture, multi-year deal between SC Films International, SiXiTZ Studios and Magieva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the sequel, \u201cChloe and Liam travel back in time to save mankind from warring families and the dreaded Troggs, with their gnome allies Quicksilver, Zook and Zamfeer at their side\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSimon Crowe and Matthew Joynes produce for SC Films alongside Lepeniotis, Kevin Hicks, Nathaniel Hunter and Euan Macdonald. Production is being split between California and Toronto. Animation is being produced by SiXiTZ Studios, the animation and media studio founded and led by Macdonald, using workflows and technologies built in partnership with Magieva. Hunter and Macdonald have built film and animation pipelines for Disney, Lucasfilm and Apple, and won an Emmy together in 2022 for the animation studio they co-founded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe original Gnome Alone played theatrically worldwide, with Netflix taking North America. The Nut Job grossed $120M worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cGnome Alone is one of our most successful titles, and we\u2019ve always wanted a sequel,\u201d said Crowe. \u201cPeter has built a whole new world full of great characters, fun and action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis time we\u2019re sending Chloe and the gnomes back in time,\u201d said Lepeniotis. \u201cIt\u2019s the biggest canvas this world has had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSC Films\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/afm\/\" id=\"auto-tag_afm\" data-tag=\"afm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFM<\/a> slate also includes the animated features Girl in the Clouds and Zsazsa Zaturnnah, and the live-action features Breeder (IFC) and Cotton Eye Joe (in post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: SC Films International has started production on Gnome Alone: Game of Gnomes, the sequel to its animated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[137694,64,63,134,493079,493080,344],"class_list":["post-925435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-afm","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-gnome-alone","tag-gnome-alone-game-of-gnomes","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925435","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=925435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}