Amazon MGM Developing Animated Game of Pets Feature — SkimNews
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- Game of Pets is being developed as an animated feature for Amazon MGM Studios by Rideback and Foundation Media Partners.
- The Boy Who Knew Too Much, a New York Times bestseller, debuted at No. 4 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list; in it, 11-year-old Griff learns from talking axolotl Bob that he may be the only one who can save Earth by surviving his well-behaved pets.
- Jonathan Eirich and fellow Rideback co-CEO Michael LoFaso are producing alongside Foundation Media’s Patrick Hughes.
- Aaron Blabey will executive produce alongside Rideback’s Nick Reynolds.
- The Bad Guys books were adapted into a two-film DreamWorks Animation franchise that grossed close to $500 million worldwide; Blabey has more than 60 million books in print globally.
- Rideback produced Lilo & Stitch, the third-highest-grossing movie of 2025, a billion-dollar worldwide take that is already getting a sequel.
- Foundation Media Partners is behind The Bad Guys and Netflix’s Thelma the Unicorn and counts more than 90 million books in print across its partners and clients over the past five years.
Why it matters: For Amazon MGM, the project brings an animated children’s property from an author whose two-picture Bad Guys adaptation grossed close to $500 million worldwide. It also pairs Foundation Media Partners’ franchise work on The Bad Guys with Rideback’s production record on 2025’s third-highest-grossing film, Lilo & Stitch.
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