Hollywood Animal

Hollywood Animal is a studio-management game in which you run a movie company and make decisions across the filmmaking process, from developing plots to distributing films in theaters. You choose what kind of studio to build, make films while keeping the business afloat, and navigate the personal conflicts and wider pressures surrounding the industry.

Build your studio

You can grow a multi-billion-dollar studio producing formula-driven blockbusters, create a boutique company aiming for festival success with avant-garde directors, or make deliberately provocative films. The game gives you room to choose your approach, with building, resource management and upgrades as part of running the studio. Rather than focusing on decorating the grounds, you decide which characters and themes may capture audiences, invest in technology and negotiate contracts with stars.

Make films and manage people

You take part in each stage of filmmaking, from coming up with plots to arranging theater distribution. Your choices shape the human stories within the studio, where employees have whims, prejudices, addictions and secrets. Casting can involve deciding how far to go to persuade an actor to accept a role, such as the lead in a Civil War epic.

Work the system

The film industry sits within a wider world of war, social upheaval, censorship, corruption, strained relations with authorities and criminal disputes. You make moves behind the scenes, form alliances, lie and betray as you adapt and negotiate. You can follow the law or cultivate the mayor's favor, raise a screenwriter's salary or use a secret you helped cover up as leverage, and delay a film's release or turn to mafia contacts to clear the release calendar.