 The new logo of Locksmith Animation in 2024 | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer animation |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Founder | Sarah Smith Julie Lockhart Elisabeth Murdoch (financial backing)[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | London, England and Los Angeles, California |
Key people | Julie Lockhart (President of Prod.) Natalie Fischer (CEO) Mary Coleman (CCO) Britt Gardiner (COO) Daphne Mather (Head of Culture) Doug Ikeler (CTO/SVP Digital Prod.) Shelley Page (Head of Talent) |
| Products | Feature films |
| Owner | Sister Group |
Number of employees | 60 (2022) |
| Parent | Sister Pictures |
| Website | www |
Locksmith Animation (also known as Locksmith) is an independent computer animation feature film studio owned by Sister Group and based in London, England and Los Angeles, California. Locksmith is best known for producing and developing independent computer-animated feature films for kids and adults of all ages.[2]
Locksmith Animation's first film, Ron's Gone Wrong, was released on 22 October 2021, distributed by 20th Century Studios (which had recently been acquired by Disney two years prior) with positive reviews. Its next films are: That Christmas, a holiday film based on the children's Christmas book trilogy That Christmas and Other Stories by British filmmaker Richard Curtis, to be released by Netflix on 4 December 2024; Bad Fairies, a subversive original musical-comedy film set in contemporary London, to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures on 23 July 2027, and The Lunar Chronicles, an animated feature film adaptation project based on the author Marissa Meyer's four young adult science fiction fantasy novels by the same name.
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