"There will come soft rains & the smell of the ground, and swallows circling with their shimmering sound." An eerie, ominous ...
During The Hollywood Reporter‘s Animation Roundtable last year, the director shed more light on how the story spoke to him. “It was certainly Peter Brown’s [2016] book, which centers around a lost ...
Crafting stakes is complicated territory for a film targeted at audiences of all ages. They are obviously a key component in getting movie-goers invested in the characters and story, but that’s paired ...
The Wild Robot was one of the biggest stories of the year at the box office, stretching its legs with grace comparably to 2023’s Elemental, which grossed only $29 million during its opening weekend ...
The animated adventure "The Wild Robot," based on Peter Brown's 2016 children's book, is set to sweet mode, as if it was a preinstalled factory setting. It's heartwarming the way a latter-era Coldplay ...
Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled its shortlists in 10 different categories, including animated short film and visual effects. It’s been an amazing year for animation, and ...
The 97th Academy Awards are right around the corner, and I’ve been in a serious crunch to watch as many of the 2025 Oscar nominees as humanly possible. Lately, I’ve been focussing on the Best Animated ...
From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it has ...
KPop Demon Hunters, Pinocchio, The Wild Robot, and Matilda the Musical make up our list of the best family movies to watch on ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked ...