Zany Malik | 10 Lives

• Directed by: Chris Jenkins
• Screenplay by: Chris Jenkins, Karen Wengrod, Ken Cinnamon
• Story by: Karen Wengrod, Ken Cinnamon, Ash Brannon, Ernesto Matamoros, Leland Cox
• Produced by: Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz, Guy Collins, Sean Feeney, Valerie d'Auteuil, Andre Rouleau, Yann Zenou
• Starring: Mo Gilligan, Simone Ashley, Sophie Okonedo, Zayn Malik, Dylan Llewellyn, Jeremy Swift, Tabitha Cross, Bill Nighy
• Cinematography: Olaf Skjenna
• Edited by: Mirenda Ouellet
• Music by: Tom Howe, Geoff Zanelli
• Production companies: GFM Animation, Align, Caramel Films, L'Atelier Animation
• Distributed by: Sky Cinema, NOW
• Release dates: April 5, 2024
• Running time: 88 minutes

As a kitten, Beckett is adopted by Rose, a student specialised in bees. Later, Rose receives the visit of Larry, her ex-boyfriend, who helps her find a solution to the problem of the recent death of numerous bees. Beckett is jealous and tries to make Larry leave the house but the cat loses his ninth life. Beckett pleads Grace, responsible for the afterlife of animals, to be allowed to return to his former life: the Gatekeeper allows him to return to earth with a new set of lives, but in a variety of different forms: badger, rat, cockroach, parrot, fish, dog and horse. Meanwhile, Professor Craven, Rose's lab director, tries to sabotage her studies so that he can sell his drone-bees universally. He repeatedly sends two thugs to destroy her bees and replace her vaccine samples. Eventually he sets a public presentation, during which he hopes Rose will prove her research was led in vain. But, this time as a bee, and subsequently as himself, Beckett manages to make Craven's evil intentions clear and save the bees. He saves Rose, attacked by drone-bees, from drowning but loses his last life and is sent to Heaven. Years pass and Beckett appears to eventually come back as a kitten, to be adopted by Larry and Rose's young daughter named Beatrice.