Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a 2023 American animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. Directed by Kirk DeMicco and written by Brian C. Brown, Elliott DiGuiseppi and Pam Brady, it stars the voices of Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Colman Domingo, and Jane Fonda. The film follows a shy Kraken girl named Ruby Gillman (Condor) who is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High. When she breaks her mother's (Collette) rule by going into the ocean with any would-be friends, she discovers that she is a direct descendant of battle-hardened krakens who have protected the sea from evil mermaids for generations, and is also destined to inherit the throne from her grandmother (Fonda).

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken had its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 15, 2023, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 30. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was a massive box office bomb, grossing $46 million against a $70 million budget, making it DreamWorks' 2nd lowest-grossing film to date, following Spirit Untamed and also the first CGI DreamWorks Animation film to make less that its budget that was released outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.