{"id":47916,"date":"2026-03-19T07:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/labubus-wide-toothy-grin-is-coming-to-the-silver-screen\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:11:17","slug":"labubus-wide-toothy-grin-is-coming-to-the-silver-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/labubus-wide-toothy-grin-is-coming-to-the-silver-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Labubu&#8217;s wide, toothy grin is coming to the silver screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69bb5f73d387710cb9e46180?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Kasing Lung and Paul King.\"\/><figcaption>Labubu will be making its way to Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Pop Mart<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Pop Mart and Sony Pictures are bringing Labubu to the big screens.<\/li>\n<li>Fans can look forward to a &quot;live\u2011action and CGI hybrid&quot; Labubu movie, produced by big-name Hollywood talent.<\/li>\n<li>Pop Mart is working hard to maintain Labubu&#039;s staying power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labubu&#039;s toothy grin will soon be magnified for all to see on the big screens.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese toymaker Pop Mart, the company behind the viral &quot;The Monsters&quot; IP, announced on Thursday that it was creating a Labubu movie with Sony Pictures Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The film, still in early development, will be a live\u2011action and CGI hybrid bringing LABUBU&#039;s whimsical world to the big screen,&quot; the companies said in a joint press release.<\/p>\n<p>The film brings together big names in Hollywood. It will be produced and directed by Paul King, the filmmaker behind &quot;Wonka&quot; and &quot;Paddington,&quot; per the release.<\/p>\n<p>The screenplay will be done by Kasing Lung, the creator of the Labubu character, and Steven Levenson, known for his work in &quot;Dear Evan Hansen,&quot; and &quot;Tick, Tick&#8230; Boom!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The movie was announced during the Paris stop of &quot;The Monsters&#039;&quot; exhibition tour, celebrating the IP&#039;s 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The release did not specify when the movie would be released.<\/p>\n<p>Labubu has enjoyed more than a year of viral success, with its toys highly sought after. Per a Pop Mart earnings report in September, &quot;The Monsters&quot; IP generated $700 million in half-year revenue, accounting for nearly half of the company&#039;s IP sales.<\/p>\n<p>The movie announcement comes as Pop Mart works hard to maintain Labubu&#039;s staying power and extend its lifespan. Last week, the company launched a collection with Sanrio, the brand behind Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Cinnamoroll.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Pop Mart&#039;s operations chief, Si De, said to Reuters that Pop Mart had &quot;learned from Disney for a long time,&quot; and said Disney&#039;s value was in its ability to keep its IP relevant over a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p>He said that learning from Disney, Pop Mart is thinking about how to invest in &quot;better products, finding better collaborations, developing content, theme parks, store displays&quot; first for Labubu, followed by its other popular IP characters.<\/p>\n<p>Pop Mart has a theme park in Beijing called Popland.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labubu will be making its way to Hollywood. Pop Mart Pop Mart and Sony Pictures are bringing Labubu to the big screens. Fans can look forward to a &quot;live\u2011action and CGI hybrid&quot; Labubu movie, produced by big-name Hollywood talent. Pop Mart is working hard to maintain Labubu&#039;s staying power. Labubu&#039;s toothy grin will soon be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}