While Kayla gets a tour of the hotel, Jerry steals food and items to ramp up his new lifestyle, and Tom plans various strategies to enter the hotel and pursue Jerry. Kayla presents a stolen resume as her own and is hired to help set up a high-profile wedding. Down on her luck, Kayla wants to prove her capabilities, by looking for a position at New York's fanciest hotel, the Royal Gate, where Jerry takes refuge in. A fight for money has them down on their luck, and an ensuing chase causes Tom to bump into a young woman named Kayla Forester, who loses her job, as a result. While, his longtime rival, Jerry Mouse, is in search of a new home. In Manhattan, Tom Cat, who dreams of becoming a pianist, plays in Central Park. It received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the human characters and screenplay, but credited the film for its sense of nostalgia. Pictures in the United States on Febru(along with a one-month simultaneous streaming release on HBO Max), grossing over $132 million on a $79 million budget. Tom & Jerry was theatrically released by Warner Bros.

The film again became a live-action/animated hybrid in 2018, with animation produced by the Warner Animation Group, and filming beginning in 2019. Plans eventually shifted to producing an entirely animated film, in 2015. Originally announced as a live-action/computer-animated film in 2009, the film languished in development hell for several years. The titular characters are voiced by William Hanna via archival recordings, with additional vocals from Kaiji Tang and André Sogliuzzo (though the characters are listed as themselves in the credits). It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Pallavi Sharda, Jordan Bolger, Patsy Ferran, and Ken Jeong in live-action roles, with Nicky Jam, Bobby Cannavale, and Lil Rel Howery in voice roles.

The film is directed by Tim Story and written by Kevin Costello. The film's story follows Tom and Jerry's cat-and-mouse battle threatening New York City's fanciest hotel and its important wedding set to take place on the hotel grounds. It is the second theatrical film based on the characters following 1992's Tom and Jerry: The Movie. Tom & Jerry (marketed as Tom & Jerry: The Movie) is a 2021 American live-action/ computer-animated slapstick comedy film based on the titular cartoon characters of the same name created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by the Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros.

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