Warner Bros. Pictures Animation confirmed a new “Powerpuff Girls” movie is officially in the works, nearly 25 years after the trio last carried their own feature film — though the studio is careful to note nothing is greenlit yet.

Key Points

• The announcement came June 22, 2026, at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, according to Variety.
• Warner Bros. stressed “there’s no deal in place,” and the project remains in early development without a formal greenlight, per Variety’s reporting.
• No director, writer, or voice cast has been attached, and Variety reports very few creative details have been revealed.
• The film will follow Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, created by Professor Utonium’s mix of “sugar, spice and everything nice” plus an accidental dose of Chemical X, according to Variety.
• This marks the franchise’s fourth attempt at reinvention: a 2002 theatrical film that earned solid reviews but only $16 million against an $11 million budget, and a 2016 live-action reboot pilot that drew such negative reception it never aired, per Variety and ComicBook.com.

The original animated series ran on Cartoon Network from 1998 to 2005 across six seasons, becoming one of the network’s signature franchises and a defining piece of the “Girl Power” cartoon moment alongside shows like “Sailor Moon” and “Kim Possible.” Creator Craig McCracken built the show around a deliberately blunt joke — three kindergarten-age superheroes with the emotional range of actual kindergartners, fighting monkey supervillains and monsters in a candy-colored city — and it worked well enough to spawn merchandise lines, video games, and a spin-off comic that’s still running today.

What’s notable here isn’t just that another Powerpuff project got announced — reboots of this franchise have been announced and quietly shelved before. It’s that a studio the size of Warner Bros. is willing to put its name on it publicly at a festival like Annecy, rather than letting the news leak through trade rumors the way the failed live-action pilot did. That’s a different level of commitment, even without a signed deal.

Whether this version actually reaches theaters or joins the pile of scrapped Powerpuff relaunches, the announcement is a reminder of how durable the original show’s aesthetic remains: a saturated color palette, exaggerated proportions, and a theme song most millennials can still hum on command, more than two decades after it first aired.

That staying power is exactly why the franchise keeps getting revival attempts instead of getting quietly retired. A companion reboot series from original creator Craig McCracken has also been in development at Cartoon Network since 2022, though Variety notes no updates on that project have surfaced either — meaning the Powerpuff name currently has two separate comeback attempts sitting in some stage of Hollywood limbo at once.