‘Hello Kitty’ Movie Finds Directors in ‘Moana 2’ and ‘Ultraman: Rising’ Filmmakers
The upcoming 'Hello Kitty' movie has secured directors David Derrick Jr. and John Aoshima. The film will be produced by Ramsey Naito and Beau Flynn, with a release date set for July 21, 2028. This marks Hello Kitty's Hollywood theatrical debut, following years of development.
- ▪David Derrick Jr. and John Aoshima will direct the 'Hello Kitty' movie.
- ▪Ramsey Naito and Beau Flynn are producing the film.
- ▪The movie is set to be released on July 21, 2028.
Variety files mainly under film tv. We currently carry 661 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Variety |
| Canonical URL | https://variety.com/2026/film/news/hello-kitty-movie-directors-1236752660/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 17:20:43 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T17:34:56.718Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T17:34:56.718Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | BI6TZaTkhD3x |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Home Film News May 18, 2026 10:20am PT ‘Hello Kitty’ Movie Finds Directors in ‘Moana 2’ and ‘Ultraman: Rising’ Filmmakers By Jazz Tangcay Plus Icon Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor @jazzt Latest NBCU Unveils Unscripted Pitch Accelerator Initiative in Search for Company’s Next Hit Franchises (EXCLUSIVE) 1 hour ago Lady Gaga Submits to Emmys With ‘Wednesday’ Original Song ‘The Dead Dance’ (EXCLUSIVE) 4 hours ago ‘Sonic 4’ Wraps Shooting; First Look at Metal Sonic Revealed 3 days ago See All The upcoming “Hello Kitty” movie has found its directors. David Derrick Jr. (“Moana 2”) and John Aoshima (“Ultraman: Rising”) will helm the film. Former president of Paramount Animation Ramsey Naito (“The Boss Baby”) will produce the film alongside Beau Flynn.Shelby Thomas is overseeing for FlynnPictureCo.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Variety.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Variety
