CircleCity (film series)

CircleCity is an American animated comedy film series based off the Comedy Central and Vision television program CircleCity, created by IAmBagel. The series is owned by Typewriter Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures (first film), Warner Bros (second and fourth), and Sony Pictures Television (third film). All films feature the main cast, including Nolan North and Rob Paulsen.

The films have had both critical and commercial success, with both released films grossing more than $240 million worldwide.

All films excluding ones that are in production are available on DVD, Bluray, digital download, streaming media (Worldwide is on Hulu, City Vs. World is on Netflix), and Worldwide is also on video on demand.

Two films are in production, A DragonCircle XYZ Adventure (currently finishing the animation), and Turning Square (currently in the production phase, close to animating).

History
During the show's second season, Paramount Pictures, whose parent company Viacom owned Comedy Central (the channel CircleCity was airing on), began negotiating with the show's creators and writing staff on making a theatrical film based on the series. They eventually went into an agreement and Paramount greenlit the film. Production on the film began in November 2002, with the film being titled CircleCity Worldwide, and Paramount later scheduling the film for an April 2004 release.

As Season five of the show began airing on Vision, IAmBagel commented on a potential second film, stating that "there's always huge shit going on in the world that could lead to the basis of a second movie, and the crew would always be up for big tasks such as that". Due to the unexpected ratings of the revival seasons thus far, the second film was confirmed at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, entitled CircleCity: City Vs. World, with its distributor, Warner Bros., scheduling it for a June 3, 2016, release.

After the success of City VS. World, Firebasket Studios wanted to produce their own CircleCity movie and were in talks with IAmBagel and Typewriter Productions. Bagel agreed and production silently began in November of 2016, where Chaos, Hat, and Bagel traveled to Japan to negotiate with anime companies about showcasing their anime in the film.

After the trip, Chaossy posted on Twitter that he was working on something that will be released in the next few years, leading speculation that it would be a new series. But a week after that, Bagel posted that he and Chaos will direct a film that will be released in 2018, and later on it was announced that the film will be delayed until June 2019. Although, as the production process sped up, the film was going to be put forward a few months, to November of 2018.

Production officially started in November 2016 and ended in early September of 2018. After that, Typewriter Productions West did the post-production of the film.

During the springtime of 2017, as animating for DragonCircle was being done, Bagel and Chaos were in talks to develop a fourth film in the franchise, which would be theatrical and be a stand-alone film in the franchise. Bagel didn't want to direct any more movies, so he passed the directorial reigns to Chaossy and Hat. Writing took place during the summer, and a few storyboards were sent to Studio Acesky, to see if the animation would look similar to City Vs. World. Acesky sent back a small film and Chaos liked the short, so he commissioned Acesky to help animate the film with Rough Draft Korea.

Production officially started in October of 2017, with production taking place over the next two and a half years with a release date of early Summer 2020.