Episode 9 (Finale) Trailer & Theatrical release!

Final episode of Digital Circus drops 19th June on YouTube and Netflix. It will be an hour long.

ALSO TADC: THE LAST ACT, an early movie screening airs from 4th June! TIX: https://digitalcircus.movie/

Hey guys! We’re going to the big screen for the very first time!! This is a CRAZY leap of faith we’re taking for indie animation, and we couldn't be more excited. The hour-long grand final episode of TADC will be combined with Episode 8 and shown EARLY at hundreds of cinemas around the world from June 4th.

We’re furiously contacting theatres to get this out to as many places as possible. If it's not in a movie theatre in your location, respectfully call your local movie theatre and ask them to air! It might just work.

Also, a note from Kevin Lerdwichagul on the two-week gap between the theatrical and public releases:

Hey everyone,

Kevin, CEO of GLITCH here. I wanted to jump in and talk directly about the theatrical release of the Digital Circus finale, and it being two weeks before its YouTube release.

The reason we're pushing for this at all is because this one event has the potential to change how the entire industry views indie animation. If this works, if we get a YouTube animated series into thousands of theatres globally, it opens the door not just for us, but for many creators, many projects, and the future of original, creator-led storytelling.

To be blunt, getting to this point has been a massive uphill battle. The traditional film industry has never really done something like this before at global scale. Like a lot of the bets we've taken over the last 8 years of running GLITCH, it takes a bit of a risk to truly push into new territory, but we really believe it's worth it.

The two-week gap came out of a lot of back and forth. Theaters were originally asking for a minimum of a month. I pushed hard to get it down to just one week or less, but they weren't willing to budge that far. Two weeks was where we finally landed, and even that was apparently "unheard of" for them.

I get that it's not ideal for everyone, and I genuinely hear the frustration. But if this works, it changes the game for us and for a lot of other independant creators down the line.

I also hear those of you who are frustrated because there isn't a theater near you yet. We are working around the clock to fix that. We're currently in active talks with several theatre chains in many countries around the world. We're pushing for more screenings and more locations every single day. Also, we REALLY want to get into theatres in our home, Australia, trust me we do - we're just waiting for someone to respond to us.

For those of you who have been respectfully reaching out to your local cinemas, thank you. It is actually working. Those emails are the best leverage we have to show theaters that there is a massive audience waiting for this.

We're doing everything in our power to make this as accessible as possible while still trying to move the needle for indie animation as a whole. Thanks for sticking with us.

Kevin Lerdwichagul,CEO