Variety: Gkids picks up Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Julián,’ mermaid dreams and all

Variety reports that Gkids has acquired U.S. rights to ‘Julián’ and set a March 26, 2027 theatrical release. Directed by Louise Bagnall and executive produced by Zoe Saldaña, the Cartoon Saloon film adapts Jessica Love’s ‘Julián Is a Mermaid.’ It follows a seven-year-old spending a summer with his grandmother in Brooklyn. His big ambition: becoming a mermaid.