Films

The films based on both the television series and characters from Hasbro's My Little Pony. Produced by Hasbro Studios, MGM, and Hollowfox Entertainment. The special direct-to-video films will be known in Japan as Cinematic OVA's (Original Video Animation) with Aniplex distributing on behalf of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2015-2019) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (2020-present).

Pilot Film: Welcome to Canterlot High
The animated series project will start with an 115-minute pilot film called "Welcome to Canterlot High", the telefilm is directed by Juno Lee, Ishi Rudell, Hiroyuki Imaishi & Jayson Thiessen, written by Greg Weisman, Aaron Montalvo, Joss Whedon & Rob Renzetti and it will be airing on AM-Pony in April 2015 in North America and Japan, and Internationally in May. The film is licensed by Ivanna Hollowfox Motion Pictures Distribution with distribution by Kadokawa, MGM Studios, Entertainment One and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Prequel Film: Secret Origins of a Day Princess
The origin story about the life of a younger Celestia and Luna, as they live their lives facing High School in Dream Valley Academy, Celestia's crush on Prince Sombra, and other stuff growing up that might lead her to face her own sister and her life before she became principal of Canterlot High School.

Years ago it was confirmed that a prequel special film is in development for a release around 2016 and 2017. In Comic-Con 2016, a trailer was revealed for a Celestia & Luna centered prequel film set for a Fall 2016 limited release in theatres and simultaneously on home video with MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment distributing with Hasbro Studios, Aniplex, Arad Productions, Ivanna The Movie Premiere and K/O Paper Products producing the film with animation by Trigger, Titmouse, Production I.G and Rough Draft Korea. Emilie-Claire Barlow is voicing a younger Celestia, with Tabitha St. Germain reprising her role as Luna and Nolan Gerard Funk voicing a young Prince Sombra.

Neverfree 2: Reckoning of Gaea
A direct-to-video special film, known as a sequel to the episode "Neverfree" is in development. It will be set in Camp Everfree and it will feature characters such as Gloriosa Daisy and Timber Spruce.

Drew Goddard will write the film alongside Aaron Montalvo, Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers and Scott Sonneborn and Shaun Cashman will direct the film. The film is released on July 1st, then worldwide on August 18.

The Peninsula Project
A beach/peninsula themed ECS direct-to-video film is set for an Early 2018 release with Stephen Sandoval, LeSean Thomas, Juno Lee and Asaph Fipke and Akira Amemiya directing. Kristin Chenoweth, Zoe Saldana and Uzo Aduba will reprise their roles as Skystar, Captain Celaeno and Novo from the 2017 My Little Pony feature film. Steven Yeun is added to the cast as a new character, Sparrow Cloud, son of Celaeno.

Sacred Awakening of Magic
Fox, Hasbro and MGM announced at SXSW 2016 that the sequel to the first film, following the past seasons, will be a theatrical feature film with Aaron Montalvo, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Josh Feldman, Avi Arad, Bobby Cohen, Dan Harmon, Dino Stamatopoulos, Maki Terashima-Furuta and Hideki "Henry" Goto as producers for the theatrical film. Co-developer Greg Weisman will be an executive producer alongside Michael Vogel and Jayson Thiessen among others including Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis.

Allspark Pictures and Ivanna The Movie will be the main production of the movie alongside Arad Productions and K/O Paper Products while Trigger, Titmouse, Production I.G., Boulder Media and Rough Draft Studios will animate the movie. Series' supervising director Hiroyuki Imaishi will direct the movie alongside David Silverman, as they announced that he will mainly direct the movie. Asaph Fipke will also direct the movie alongside Silverman and Imaishi. The film will take place during and between Season 3 and 4.

Montalvo said that there will be movie-exclusive characters, such as Athena (voiced by Natalia Dyer), Blaze (voiced by Zach Callison) and Necromanthys (voiced by TC Carson). Taye Diggs (Empire, My Little Pony: The Movie), Michael Fassbender (X-Men, Assassin's Creed) and Ian McShane (Kung Fu Panda, Game of Thrones) will make their appearances in the film as Light Strife, Cervas and Capper. Later, Sia reprises her role as Songbird Serenade from the 2017 MLP film alongside the addition of Ariana Grande as Starling Bravura, a new character. The film is rated R and is released on June 28, 2018.

Series Finale Film: Equestria Campus Alumnus' Ever After Picture Show
Alongside the upcoming spin-off, a standalone "extended finale" feature film is in development. The extended finale will take place during the miniseason's final episode's events, expanding on the time skip and introducing to the EqG-esque versions of Cozy Glow and Grogar.

Aaron Montalvo, Greg Weisman, Kevin Hopps, Dan Sterling, Erica Rivinoja, Adam Stein and Alex Kurtzman are set to write the film from a story by Montalvo, Kurtzman, Weisman, and Dan Harmon with Jayson Thiessen returning to the series as the finale film's director alongside Hiroyuki Imaishi and Chris Prynoski. A key visual teaser has been revealed alongside a Q3 2021 release date on Comic-Con @ Home. It was later pushed back to the fourth quarter of the year with the announcement of Montalvo Releasing assisting UAR and MGM for future Humanoidverse films on December 31, 2020.

Like its previous films, distribution in North America will be handled by United Artists Releasing and Montalvo Releasing and internationally by Hasbro's Entertainment One under its distribution label of the same name with other countries co-operating with Universal Pictures (with the exception of Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom, where eOne will self-distribute the film).

It was originally set to be adopted by Netflix due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Netflix and Hollowfox Entertainment reenvisioned the deal to make it a one-time-only occasion for both the spin-off film and the Blythe X film only for 2020 before ceding the distribution rights to future Humanoidverse films back to UAR and eOne as theatres reopen and the pandemic slows down.

Spin-off Film: Honey-Blood-Moon
On WonderCon 2019, Montalvo brought a trailer for a Crystal family-centric spin-off film set for a February 2020 release through United Artists Releasing (Americas) and Entertainment One (Worldwide) with Annapurna Pictures, MGM, Allspark Animation and Hollowfox Toonimation Workshop producing. It will be directed by Atsushi Nishigori, Charlie Kaufman and Shaun Cashman and written by Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe, Erica Rivinoja, David X. Cohen, Aaron Ehasz, Justin Richmond and Kevin Hopps from a story by Carbiener, Rosbe and Montalvo.

The film will have Andrew Francis, Britt McKillip and Tabitha St. Germain reprise their roles as Cadance, Shining Armor and Flurry Heart while new characters join the roster with Dwayne Johnson, Esme Bianco, Hannah John-Kamen and Lance Henriksen voicing them.

In April 2019, due to the creator's mentality on 2D animation not being "hot" for theatrical releases (with My Little Pony: The Movie and Teen Titans Go! To The Movies) due to them not having successful runs at the box office (leading to the former not having a sequel and the latter having a crossover with Teen Titans instead of a sixth season of the aforementioned series) as well as the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic concerns, MGM, Hasbro, eOne and Hollowfox negotiated with Netflix in order to release not only this, but also future Humanoidverse feature films to the streaming service with some skipping theatrical releases (like this one), and Netflix seals the deal with the Humanoidverse Project team. Marking it a Netflix original film. UAR will co-distribute it with Netflix and eOne. The new release date will be in June 2020.

Anthro Bunraku X Equestria Girls X Equestria Campus Supremacy: Triple Threat Hoofdown
In Wondercon, a special crossover film featuring the Equestria Girls and Anthro Bunraku, culminating the EG/AB crossover trilogy has been confirmed for a November 2016 release. The film is directed by Rob Boutilier and Takafumi Hori with a screenplay by Montalvo, Alex Hirsch, David Slack, Chris Savino, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein.

Worlds Collide Again: Equestria Campus Supremacy vs. Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X, Part Deux
Drew Goddard, Adam Beechen and Greg Weisman are set to write the film with Trigger, Wit Studio, and Titmouse animating the film with Boulder Media. The crossover movie is set to be a sequel to ECS Season 3's/LPSBX Season 1's 3-parter as the film will take place during Season 5 of ECS and Season 4 of Blythe X.

Development started in 2017 but now it has surprisingly decided to state that development has been finished in 2018 and production has been finished after two years, with the film being complete for a June 26, 2020 release (alongside Honey-Blood-Moon) with Netflix co-distributing the film alongside Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Entertainment One, releasing it as a Netflix film, with home video release under Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

ECS x Transformers: The Allspark of CrossAnthrophy
An ECS/Transformers crossover film is announced, as a tie-in to Transformers: CrossAnthrophy. Series' executive producers and writers Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci will write the film with Montalvo, Jordan Roberts and Greg Weisman. Steven Spielberg will be the executive consultant for the film.

The film is set for an April 24, 2020 release in television and May 1st on streaming (through Netflix and HCN+) and June 8, 2020 on home video from Fox, MGM and Aniplex of America. Asaph Fipke (Storm Hawks), Miki Brewster (Steven Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) and Shigetaka Ikeda (Future Card Buddyfight) are set to direct the film, marking Brewster's directorial debut. Roberts, Kurtzman & Orci, alongside Montalvo and Weisman will be story writers with Weisman, Kevin Hopps, Jose Molina, G.M. Berrow and Tim Hedrick as writers.

Hiroyuki Imaishi and Shaun Cashman will be directorial supervisors and will be animated at Studio Trigger, Titmouse and Production I.G. With CGI co-developed at Sanzigen and Boulder Media.

Humanoid Squad
On WonderCon 2019, an anime/cartoon hybrid crossover film is in development at Trigger and Production I.G. (with Studio Mir co-operating). It will have characters from ECS teaming up with CrossAnthrophy and Blythe X Characters, as well as Barbie Mason and including Hanazuki. It will follow the events of three shows and will be inspired by Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Initially, it was supposed to be a two-parter series with the notion of ending the predecessor's story. However, in 2020, it has been expanded into a trilogy acting like a three-parter.

The crossover event will commemorate the Humanoidverse franchise's tenth anniversary. Later in 2021, it has been announced that the three-parter event will be released from late 2022 to late 2023 and The Russo Brothers will team-up as producers for the films, with their sister Angela Russo-Otstot, as well as their storytelling partners Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely joining Greg Weisman, Todd Casey, Brent Friedman and Jose Molina writing from a story by Markus, McFeely, Weisman and Montalvo with Emi Yonemura and Shaun Cashman set to direct all three.

Cinematic OVA Series: Magical Shards Saga
The series "Magical Shards" project is set to be an anime OVA miniseries, until as of May 2016, the series has been retooled as an OVA film series consisted of two trilogies based on the television series starting with the "Crimson Cross Arc" and its first part releasing around 2017 and 2018.

Atsushi Nishigori will be helming the film series as supervising director, main character designer, key animation supervisor and co-writer. Masahiko Otsuka will be in charge of the scripts written by Nishigori and Yasuyuki Muto based on a story concept by Montalvo, who will also be the film series' executive producer, and music by Yuki Kajiura, Hiroyuki Sawano and TeddyLoid, with Sawano producing the music. The film's planning supervisors are Hiroyuki Imaishi, Kora Kosicka, Jayson Thiessen, Rob Renzetti and Greg Weisman.

The film is part of the Anime Showcase of the Humanoidverse alongside the Anthro Bunraku anime film, Aegis Resort.