Tom & Jerry was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Starting with a live-action film in 2009, to an animated film in 2015, and to the Warner Animation Group producing a hybrid film blending classic animation and live-action in 2018, with filming beginning in 2019, the film languished in development hell, due to the studio spending years to search for a writer to pen the most faithful take on the characters for a feature film. The titular characters are voiced by William Hanna via archival recordings, with additional vocals from Kaiji Tang and André Sogliuzzo (though the characters are listed as themselves in the credits). It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Pallavi Sharda, Jordan Bolger, Patsy Ferran, and Ken Jeong in live-action roles, with Nicky Jam, Bobby Cannavale, and Lil Rel Howery in voice roles. The film is directed by Tim Story and written by Kevin Costello. The film's story follows Tom enlisted to catch Jerry, before his presence ruins New York City's fanciest hotel and its planned wedding.
It is the second theatrical film based on the characters, following Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992), and the third to animate them in the contemporary real world with humans, following Anchors Aweigh (1945) and Dangerous When Wet (1953), like the original cartoons. Pictures, and Warner Animation Group, and distributed by Warner Bros.
Tom & Jerry (marketed as Tom & Jerry: The Movie) is a 2021 American live-action/computer-animated slapstick comedy film based on the titular cartoon characters of the same name created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Warner Bros.