Wish Dragon (2021) is Sony Animation's 9th film to become a franchise theatrically, after The Smurfs (2011), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), Hotel Transylvania (2012), The Angry Birds Movie (2016), Peter Rabbit (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and The Emoji Movie (2017). This does not count Open Season (2006) and Surf's Up (2007) as the sequels to those films were simply released straight-to-dvd.
The Sixth theatrically released animated sequel to have a two-decade gap between a previous installment of a franchise after The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Toy Story 3 (2010), Spirit Untamed (2021), Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nuggets (2023), and Welcome to Emoji City.
The first animated sequel of the 2020s to be produced at 1.85:1
The only Wish Dragon film to not have a co-director.
The only Wish Dragon film that does not feature Mrs. Song,.