The Atlanta-raised singer is lining up alongside Ludacris and more for a dance-floor cartoon that sounds straight out of a 404 playlist.
The drop
Halle Bailey just signed onto the animated film ‘Groove Tails,’ and she’s not walking into that booth alone — Ludacris is on the call sheet too, turning the project into a sneaky Atlanta crossover in cartoon form.
Halle’s Next Animated Move
Halle Bailey has signed on for the animated feature ‘Groove Tails,’ stepping into a new voice-acting lane alongside a stacked cast as of June 18, 2026. In a June 18, 2026 casting rundown, Variety flagged the Atlanta-raised singer and actress as part of the ensemble, putting her vocals and personality into a dance-driven cartoon world that fits how fans already see her — melodic, expressive, and low-key theatrical.
‘Groove Tails’ is set to pair Halle with Ansel Elgort, Ludacris, and Alan Ritchson, turning the film into a cross-city flex with Atlanta energy all over the call sheet. With Ludacris also attached, the cast reads like an unofficial ATL link-up in animated form, mixing Bailey’s Disney-honed pipes with one of the city’s most famous rap exports plus a couple of Hollywood leading men for extra box-office pull.
For Halle, ‘Groove Tails’ keeps the acting bag active while her solo music and Chloe x Halle catalog are still streaming strong, extending the post–‘Little Mermaid’ glow instead of letting it cool off. She’s already shown she can carry a fantasy world on her voice and face; this time it’s all about the mic, the exact skill set studios lean on when they’re building animated musicals and rhythm-heavy family movies.
The move also feeds that Chloe x Halle pipeline story Atlanta loves to claim, with one Bailey sister headlining grown, moody projects and the other floating into an animated groove flick. Together, the sisters now cover R&B, prestige-leaning TV and film, and kid-friendly animation — a full portfolio that traces back to ATL roots and turns every new role into one more receipt for the city’s talent-factory storyline.
How Atlanta Will Spin It
On paper, ‘Groove Tails’ sounds like the kind of playful, dance-soaked story you’d expect to hit family-night movie queues; in practice, stacking Halle’s voice next to Ludacris feels like an Atlanta culture cheat code aimed at everybody who grew up on Cartoon Network and 404 club sets. Around the city, folks will be listening less for plot and more for how her riffs and his punchlines slide into the soundtrack — the kind of thing that can still end up on a DJ’s hard drive between Edgewood and Peter Street if the records go hard enough.
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