Netflix will release Adam Sandler’s animated family feature Leo on November 21, but before it begins streaming, the film will be released in 150 US locations on November 11 and 12.
This is an interesting marketing ploy from Netflix. According to Cartoon Brew’s research, 150 theaters is the largest number of locations where a Netflix original animated film has ever been released. Netflix declined to confirm whether this is the case. Furthermore, these performances will be free for theater audiences. Each theater will host two shows over two days.
Interested viewers just need to visit this one website They can reserve up to five tickets, but be aware that most shows are already sold out.
Adam Sandler headlines the film that tells the story of an exhausted 74-year-old lizard who has spent his life as a classroom pet. When Leo learns he only has one year left to live, he decides to run away for one great adventure, but instead finds himself stuck in schoolboy problems.
Leo Featuring animation by Animal Logic in Australia (The Lego Movie, DC Super Pet League), which was acquired by Netflix last year. It’s directed by Saturday Night Live Writer Robert Smigel and directors Robert Marianetti and David Wachenheim, all longtime Sandler collaborators. Smigel, also the creator of the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, was a co-writer on Hotel Transylvania And Hotel Transylvania 2, with Marianetti and Watchtenheim as heads of the final story. All three have worked “Saturday Night Live”and popular “TV Funhouse” animated segments of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The screenplay was written by Smigel, Sandler, and Paul Sado. Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions is producing.
