Netflix used its Annecy International Animation Film Festival platform on Wednesday to unveil a slate of high-profile projects, led by a first look at Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn and new details on its upcoming Ghostbusters series. The streamer also confirmed December release dates for Ray Gunn and its Cannes animation acquisition In Waves, positioning both as potential Oscar contenders.
Ray Gunn, Bird’s long-gestating noir sci-fi film, will debut globally on Netflix on December 18. The film, set in an alternate 1939 Metropia, follows private eye Raymond Gunn as he investigates a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova. Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits lead the voice cast, with Skydance Animation producing. Netflix revealed new images and Ray Gunn concept art at its presentation.
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Netflix also revealed a first look of Ghostbusters: Night Shift, a new animated TV series set in 1994, on the Ghostbusters timeline between Ivan Reitman’s original films from the 1980s and the 2020s sequels, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), directed by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan. Reitman, Kenan and Dan Aykroyd are executive producing the new series. Netflix unveiled concept art for the series, which promises a more gritty, retro aesthetic and a mix of franchise-specific humor and supernatural scares. Ghostbusters: Night Shift is set to deliver in 2027.
