‘Ellie and the Christmas Creep’ Animated Feature Heads to Market With All Rights Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)

Paris- Hong Kong- and Los Angeles-based film sales company All Rights Entertainment has picked up worldwide distribution duties on “Ellie and the Christmas Creep,” a 3D animated comedy adventure. The company will begin marketing the film at the upcoming American Film Market, which has relocated this year from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and runs Nov. 5-10.

“Ellie and the Christmas Creep” is co-directed by Caroline Origier (“Tally Ho!,” “My Fairy Troublemaker”), David Freedman (“Yakari,” “Inspector Sun”) and Jules de Jongh, from a script by Freedman himself.

Production is by Luxembourg-based Fabrique d’Images (“Luis and the Aliens,” “Tally Ho!”) with France’s Fantabulous and Belgium’s Freaks Factory as co-producers.

The family adventure film will formally enter production later this year with budget of €10 million ($10.9 million). It has a planned delivery in the third quarter of 2026.

According to a supplied synopsis, “Christmas magic is dying out while Santa is becoming addicted to his fame. A determined elf girl is convinced that it’s all because of a mysterious creep. She will fight to bring back the real magic of Christmas.”

The project is one of three titles being produced by Fabrique d’Images and backed by All Rights Entertainment. The two others, “Dudley” and “The Defects,” are both previously announced and now in-production.

All Rights has a long track record of representing independently-produced animated features from Europe and Asia. Earlier this year, it landed rights animated children and family feature “Out of the Nest,” which was structured as a rare Thai-Chinese co-production. The film had its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Festival and was a hit on commercial release in China over the summer.

The company’s other past credits include “Lendarys,” “Gulliver Returns,” “Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape,” and Chinese titles “New Gods: Yang Jian,” “White Snake,” “Cats and Peachtopia.”