Is Mitchells vs the machines only on Netflix?

Netflix says that “The Mitchells Vs. The Machines,” its animated family film, was the streamer’s biggest animated movie it has ever released.

The film that was produced by Sony and originally intended for theatrical release was watched by an estimated 53 million member households in its first 28 days, Netflix said in its earnings report on Tuesday. The film debuted on April 30.

The film has also been highly critically acclaimed, coming from the team behind “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and Nielsen has similarly tracked impressive numbers for the film in its weekly streaming rankings. “The Mitchells” in May became the first movie since “Soul” to lead all streaming movies for a given week, being watched by 853 million viewing minutes at its peak. And it still performs strongly week over week and frequently appears in Netflix’s daily Top 10.

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But “The Mitchells” wasn’t even the biggest movie on Netflix during Q2, with Netflix saying that Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” and the Kevin Hart drama “Fatherhood,” (another Sony title originally), being watched by 75 million and 74 million member households respectively in their first 28 days on the service. That’s strong, but not close to some of the biggest films to ever premiere on Netflix, including films such as the Chris Hemsworth action film “Extraction,” which was watched by 99 million member households in its first four weeks.

“The Mitchells Vs The Machines” (originally titled “Connected”) is the story of a quirky, dysfunctional family looking to unplug for a summer vacation, only to find themselves in the midst of a robot apocalypse in which machines and technology threaten to take over humanity. Netflix acquired the film for release from Sony, and it joins some of the streamer’s other recent animated films, such as “Wish Dragon” or the Oscar nominated “Over the Moon.”

Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe directed the film that was produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. The film features the voice talent of Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Charlyne Yi, Blake Griffin and Conan O’Brien.

The streaming service announced Thursday that it had acquired the rights to Sony's animated film The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an apocalyptic family comedy produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. The film was previously titled Connected and was originally scheduled to hit theaters last September, before the coronavirus pandemic pushed its release date. Now, it'll debut exclusively on Netflix later this year.

Mike Rianda (Gravity Falls) directs the film, which follows an ordinary family as they're swept up into a global uprising of technology. Broad City's Abbi Jacobson voices Katie, a teenager who's accepted to her dream film school on the other side of the country. Her nature-loving father Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) decides that driving Katie to college is the perfect opportunity to bond as a family, so together they pile into the car and set out on a road trip, joined by mom Linda (Maya Rudolph), little brother Aaron (Rianda), and the family's pug Monchi.

Along the way, their journey is derailed by international tech problems, as robots and household appliances around the world start to go haywire.

"This is a very personal movie about my very weird family," Rianda said in a statement. "I'm so grateful to all the incredible artists that poured their love and passion into this project to make it a reality, and to everyone at Sony who believed in us and were on board to make a different kind of animated movie. I'm so thrilled that everyone at Netflix has been totally in sync with us creatively and are just as excited about the movie as we are! Not only because it's an original story with a creative visual style that we're extremely proud of, but also so I can prove to my friends that this five-year journey wasn't an elaborate delusion on my part."

"We are overwhelmed by the enthusiasm Netflix has expressed for this movie with this acquisition and grateful to everyone at Sony for making a great picture with us and finding a big way to bring it to audiences" Lord and Miller added. "We're really proud of the film we all made together, plus we understand our subscription fees are waived in perpetuity as part of the deal? We're not lawyers but it does sound right to us."

EW previously debuted a first look at The Mitchells vs. The Machines, which also features Eric Andre as a tech inventor and Olivia Colman as the voice of a Siri-esque tech assistant.

"I tried to think about the two things that I loved the most," Rianda told EW, "which was my crazy family… and also killer robots."

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