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According to Gold Derby’s current combined predictions, “The Wild Robot” is the frontrunner to win Best Animated Feature at the Oscars with 10/3 odds. If it prevails, it would be just the third film from DreamWorks Animation to do so. But the movie may prove to be an even stronger contender than many are expecting.

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Adapted from Peter Brown’s 2016 children’s book of the same name, “The Wild Robot” follows an intelligent robot named Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) who is shipwrecked on an island, bonds with the animals there, and cares for an orphaned baby goose (Kit Connor). The movie currently holds an impressive 98% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has so far made over $270 million at the worldwide box office.

Since the category of Best Animated Feature was established at the Oscars, only...

DreamWorks’ latest animated feature, The Wild Robot, has been received extremely well by both critics and audiences. As of the writing of this article, the movie scores a 98% on both critical and audience scores.

Unfortunately, the praise doesn’t translate to box office success. In its nearly four weeks in theaters, the film has earned just over $152 million against a $78 million budget. The movie has nearly crossed the break-even point, however, it wasn’t very well advertised, meaning that Universal probably didn’t see it as a priority compared to established IPs such as Kung Fu Panda 4 from earlier this year.

While the movie isn’t a huge moneymaker like some other DreamWorks films, it has since gained a cult following, with multiple pieces of fan art from talented creators being made.

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The Wild Robot is continuing to wow audiences in theaters and now the director has confirmed that a sequel is in the works.

Heading into its third weekend at the box office, the animated film is expected to come in second place again for the weekend. It has already grossed more than $74 million at the domestic box office after just 15 days in theaters and over $111 million worldwide.

Director Chris Sanders confirmed the sequel plans during a discussion at Deadline Contenders in London on Saturday (October 12).

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“100% yes there are absolutely plans for a second one,” Chris said.

Chris is a three-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker who previously directed Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods. He also served a writer on Mulan and production designer on The Lion King!

Exclusive: After crossing $100M globally last weekend, The Wild Robot filmmaker Chris Sanders confirmed this morning at Deadline Contenders that a sequel to the pic is on the way and currently in development at DreamWorks Animation.

“100% yes there are absolutely plans for a second one,” Sanders confirmed this morning at Contenders.

Three-time Oscar nominee Sanders—the writer-director of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Disney’s Lilo & Stitch — directed the animated feature from a screenplay he also penned. The film is produced by Jeff Hermann.

In the pic, which is an adaptation of Peter Brown’s award-winning bestseller of the same name, Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o plays a robot called Rozzum unit 7134 — “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings,...

Variety will host its third annual “Pixels and Pencils” series at this year’s Scad Savannah Film Festival on Monday, Oct. 28. The panel, featuring directors of some of the year’s most celebrated animated feature films, is presented in partnership with the Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad). Moderated by Clayton Davis, Variety’s senior awards editor, the event will showcase a diverse range of animation styles and artistic approaches, culminating in a roundtable discussion with the directors.

This year’s lineup of films and directors includes:

“Flow” (Sideshow/Janus Films) – Director Gints Zilbalodis “Inside Out 2” (Walt Disney/Pixar) – Director Kelsey Mann “Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films) – Director Adam Elliot “Piece By Piece” (Focus Features) – Director Morgan Neville “Transformers One” (Paramount Pictures) – Director Josh Cooley “The Wild Robot” (Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation) – Director Chris Sanders

Last year’s “Pixels and Pencils” panel featured Academy Award nominees Peter Sohn...

Francis Ford Coppola’s Cannes world premiere Megalopolis arrived in the North American charts in sixth place on an estimated $4m in the latest sorry episode in the film’s embattled history.

The sci-fi starring Adam Driver and Giancarlo Esposito as two driven men fighting for the soul of a city opened in 1,854 locations and earned $1.8m on Friday, $1.3m on Saturday, and $915,000 on Sunday. Pre-weekend estimates put the opening at $5-7m.

Lionsgate is distributing the film for a fee so the launch is not a hefty financial misfire for the studio. However it does mark the latest in...

Francis Ford Coppola’s Cannes world premiere Megalopolis arrived in the North American charts in sixth place on an estimated $4m in the latest sorry episode in the film’s embattled history.

The sci-fi starring Adam Driver and Giancarlo Esposito as two driven men fighting for the soul of a city opened in 1,854 locations and earned $1.8m on Friday, $1.3m on Saturday, and $915,000 on Sunday. Pre-weekend estimated put the opening at $5-7m.

While not a financial misfire in and of itself for Lionsgate, who is distributing the film for a fee, it does mark another in what has become...

"The Wild Robot," the heartstring-tugging new animated film from "How to Train Your Dragon" co-director Christopher Sanders, earned a rare 10 out of 10 review from /Film when it screened at Fantastic Fest earlier this month. The story follows a robot called Rozzum unit 7134, aka "Roz," who emerges from her crate to find that she's been shipwrecked on an island with lots of animals, but no humans. After an orphaned gosling imprints on her, Roz has to figure out how to be a mother -- something that wasn't exactly included in her programming. 

/Film's Ryan Scott wasn't alone in giving this film a rave review. "The Wild Robot" has a near-perfect score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing, which might be the reason it's racing ahead of expectations at the box office. Per The Wrap, Universal was projecting a $20 million-plus debut, and third-party estimates were in the $24-30 million range.

DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot is charming reviewers and audiences alike, boasting both a stellar 98 percent Rotten Tomatoes critics score and a 98 percent audience score, not to mention an A CinemaScore from moviegoers. Thanks to great word of mouth, Wild Robot came in No. 1 with an estimated $35 million.

If only the love were being spread around.

Francis Ford Coppola — in one of the low points of his long and illustrious career — is watching his new movie Megalopolis get almost utterly rejected by moviegoers (it was likewise maligned by many critics). The film received a disastrous D+ CinemaScore from audiences and only cleared an estimated $4 million in its domestic debut (many rivals predict final numbers will be lower). Heading into the weekend, tracking and Lionsgate expected it to do at least $5 million to $7 million.

While The Wild Robot came in ahead of tracking, many had predicted...

The Oscar race for Best Animated Feature heats up with the theatrical release of “The Wild Robot,” in which the title character (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) is shipwrecked on an island and develops relationships with the local animals. Directed by Chris Sanders, the film opened on September 27 from Universal Pictures.

SEEBox office preview: DreamWorks’ ‘The Wild Robot’ takes on Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ and others

As of this writing the film has a sky-high MetaCritic score of 86 based on 30 reviews counted so far — all of them positive. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, where reviews are considered simply positive or negative, the film is generating just as much goodwill, rated 98% fresh based on 102 reviews, only two of which give the film a thumbs down. The Rt critics consensus says, “A simple tale told with great sophistication, ‘The Wild Robot’ is wondrous entertainment that dazzles the eye while filling your heart to the brim.

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in October. The Peacock October 2024 schedule includes the streaming premieres of The Mouse Trap and Blackwater Lane, as well as the debut of the terrifying Peacock Originals Teacup and Hysteria!

Peacock has something for everyone, from frightful favorites like I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Fly and spine-chilling thrillers like The Craft and Jennifer’s Body to films to scare up fun for the whole family, such as the Harry Potter franchise, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and more.

Hysteria!

October also brings a taste of early noughties nostalgia with the exclusive streaming premiere of Didi and a royal reality check when Queens Court returns for season 2. Get on your dancing shoes for the premiere of Reggaeton: The Sound That Conquered the World, and don...

DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s The Wild Robot started off its North American box office run with $1.95 million in Thursday previews, a solid start for a family animated film. The movie is based on Peter Brown’s beloved bestseller about a robot nicknamed Roz who forms an unexpected bond with an orphaned gosling and other creatures after being shipwrecked on a lonely island.

The critically acclaimed CGI-animated film is tracking to open in the $24 million range domestically, although more bullish forecasters believe it could easily fly past $30 million. But it’s understandable why the filmmakers are trying to temper expectations in suggesting $20 million-plus after last weekend’s Transformers One, another animated PG-rated pic, came in $5 million behind tracking with a $24.6 million domestic launch.

A story of the bridge between nature and technology, The Wild Robot is directed and written by Oscar-nominee Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods...

While DreamWorks animation brought us the direct-to-streaming cinematic marvel Orion and the Dark, their big theatrical film for this year is The Wild Robot, directed by former Disney director Chris Sanders. After helping to bring to life other franchises like Lilo & Stitch, How To Train Your Dragon, and The Croods, Sanders once again tugs at the heartstrings of audience members with a film adaptation of the 2016 children’s book by Peter Brown.

Here is ‘The Wild Robot’ Trailer.

When the first trailer was revealed, many thought that it would be the studio’s attempt at Wall-e or The Iron Giant. However, there is more of a Studio Ghibli vibe from the overall narrative, and not just because the main character looks like one of the robots from Castle in the Sky.

So, is “The Wild Robot” one of DreamWorks’ emotional gut-punching movies? Or is it more of the eye candy...

“The Wild Robot” director Chris Sanders was feeling a little lost himself.

In 2020, he ventured into live-action filmmaking with “The Call of the Wild,” an ambitious, imperfect adaptation of Jack London’s 1903 novel. Sanders got to work with Janusz Kaminski, Steven Spielberg’s regular cinematographer, and it allowed him to direct Harrison Ford as a grizzled frontiersman. But the film opened a few weeks before the pandemic shut down movie theaters.

For the first time in his career, Sanders had delivered a disappointment.

Then DreamWorks Animation, the studio where the filmmaker had made “How to Train Your Dragon” and “The Croods,” wooed him back. He looked at the projects the studio had in development or owned the rights to and quickly zeroed in on “The Wild Robot,” a book by American author and illustrator Peter Brown about a high-tech machine that washes up on an island inhabited by animals.

Sanders...

The new arrivals on the box office marquee this weekend make for an unusual recipe, if not a spicy one.

The safest and most traditional ingredient is DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot, based on Peter Brown’s beloved best-seller about a robot nicknamed Roz who forms an unexpected bond with an orphaned gosling and other creatures after being shipwrecked on a lonely island.

The critically acclaimed CGI-animated film is tracking to open in the $24 million range domestically, although more bullish forecasters believe it could easily fly past $30 million. But it’s understandable why the filmmakers are trying to temper expectations and suggest $20 million-plus after last weekend’s Transformers One, another animated PG-rated pic, came in $5 million behind tracking with a $24.6 million domestic launch.

A story of the bridge between nature and technology, The Wild Robot is directed and written by Oscar-nominee Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon,...

Every so often, we encounter an animated film that pulls at the heartstrings and immerses the audience in animation that reminds us of the magic of movies. That film is The Wild Robot, a big, beautiful, animated family film that may be passed down from generation to generation as an enduring classic.

The Wild Robot is a gorgeous film with nearly universal themes regarding becoming a parent. The film addresses themes of sacrifice, protection, identity, transformation, and a little thing called unconditional love that will fill your heart and maybe even bring a tear to your eyes.

At least, it did for me.

The Wild Robot (2024) | Image via Dreamworks Related My Old Ass Review — A Hilarious and Tender Coming of Age Tale The Wild Robot’s Review and Synopsis

The story follows the adventure of Universal Dynamix utilitarian robot Rozzum 7134 (Lupita Nyong’o), who crashes on an uninhabited island on a future Earth.

Roz (Lupita N’yongo) in DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot, directed by Chris Sanders. Photo Credit: Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Animation Copyright © 2024 DreamWorks Animation. All Rights Reserved. The Wild Robot is written and directed by Chris Sanders, whose credits include three films that were all nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards: Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods. That reputation was one of the reasons why Lupita Nyong’o signed on to voice the title character in The Wild Robot, but it also gave her a little bit of anxiety. Since she’s done voice work in the past (for three Star Wars movies and The Jungle Book), she approached the recording process with some questions and ideas of her own, and she wasn’t sure how a veteran animation director like Sanders would respond. As Nyong’o spoke though, she needn’t have worried,...

More family films hitting cinemas this weekend with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s feature take of Peter Brown’s New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot, however, unlike Paramount/Hasbro’s Transformers One last weekend, this one is mom/female leaning. Opening weekend at 3,900 theaters is pegged at $20M+.

That’s around the average start for an animated major studio movie in September and not that far from where we saw Transformers One last weekend with $24.6M. Also keep in mind that it’s original animation, and that’s always a lower bar start than established feature cartoons.

Wild Robot will have the vast majority of premium screens with 380 Imax hubs with all showtimes up to primetime. After that time, Lionsgate’s Megalopolis from Francis Ford Coppola will have evening Imax showtimes in key metropolitan locations, repping around 200 of its 1,700 theater count. Overall, for Wild Robot, there’s close to 900 Plf screens including all Dolby Cinema,...

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(from back center) Roz (Lupita N’yongo), and Brightbill (Kit Connor) in DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot, directed by Chris Sanders.

From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot.

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—Rozzum unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building...

Prepare your inner child. Parents of children, parents of pets, prepare to feel your heartstrings pulled with the newest family film, The Wild Robot. The final trailer for the animated movie has been released by DreamWorks. Stay tuned for our review, which will drop later today.

The Wild Robot follows the journey of a robot—Rozzum unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

Courtesy of the official press release for The Wild Robot:

The Wild Robot stars Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara as opossum Pinktail; Oscar nominee Bill Nighy as goose Longneck; Kit Connor as gosling Brightbill and Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu as Vontra,...

As early as the dawn of the 1980s, director Chris Sanders has been fixated on a little creature that lived in a forest. “It was a bit of a monster with no real explanation as to where it came from. It was all about how he found a way to belong,” he told critic Bilge Ebiri for Vulture’s oral history of Sanders’s breakout hit Lilo & Stitch. That longing for connection in a hostile environment has been threaded throughout his work since.

It’s in the fearsome and goofy fire breather who befriends the village dork in How to Train Your Dragon, in the flame-keeping homo sapien that foretells the uncertain future of a family of cave dwellers in The Croods, and in the CGI dog that acts as shepherd to Harrison Ford’s John Thornton in The Call of the Wild. Sanders’s films are marked by...

"Ready?" "I could use a boost..." Universal + DreamWorks Animation have revealed a third and final trailer for The Wild Robot, opening in theaters later this month. A must watch for animation fans. An intelligent robot washes up on a remote island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. A powerful story (based on the books) about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology & nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot is written and directed by three-time Oscar nominee Chris Sanders—of How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Lilo & Stitch. Starring Lupita Nyong'o as Roz; Pedro Pascal as fox Fink; Catherine O'Hara as opossum Pinktail; Bill Nighy as goose Longneck; Kit Connor as gosling Brightbill, and Stephanie Hsu as Vontra,...

Universal Pictures has released the final trailer for The Wild Robot movie, which is based on Peter Brown’s #1 New York Times bestseller. Tickets are now on sale for the film.

The DreamWorks Animation film is rated PG for action/peril and thematic elements and will open in theaters on September 27, 2024.

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot – Rozzum unit 7134, “Roz” for short – that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

The Wild Robot movie is written and directed by Chris Sanders, a three-time Oscar nominee. It is a powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature, and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things.

Spawned from the New York Times No. 1 bestseller by Peter Brown that managed to speak to multiple generations, not just kids, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot proves to be a real gem in the genre that likely will become a classic, and no doubt bring sequels just as Brown’s book is now a literary series. With beautiful animation and a smart script that has equal humor, action, heart and lessons to be learned for any age, this movie transcends the boundaries of just animation and will enchant audiences. If Spielberg’s E.T. had been an animated film instead, it might resemble what writer-director Chris Sanders has created here. However, Wild Robot weaves its own magic and for that we can all cry tears of joy.

The story is ingenious and centers on Rozzum 7134 aka Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o...

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During the earliest production stages of an animated movie, it is common to begin the process with a series of exploratory paintings.

“They are abstract and loose and just delicious paintings,” says Chris Sanders, the director of films such as Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods. But something special happened during the production of Sanders’ latest film, The Wild Robot, while he was sitting in a meeting and being shown some of these conceptual paintings.

“Someone pushed a button,” Sanders recalls, “and one of them started to move. And the camera started pushing through it.” What Sanders had taken for a painting was actually a finished scene of the movie. “And I cannot put too fine a point on it; I really didn’t think...

Universal Pictures has shared a new featurette on DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot, which is based on Peter Brown’s #1 New York Times bestseller. The film is rated PG for action/peril and thematic elements and will open in theaters on September 27, 2024.

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot – Rozzum unit 7134, “Roz” for short – that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

The Wild Robot is written and directed by Chris Sanders, a three-time Oscar nominee. It is a powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature, and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things.

Sanders is the writer-director of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon,...

"The artists here have outdone themselves." Universal + DreamWorks Animation have unveiled a wonderful behind-the-scenes featurette for The Wild Robot, which is opening theaters in September this year (full trailer here). It looks magnificent! This is going to blow us all away, isn't it?? Everyone speaks so fondly about making this. After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. A powerful story (based on the beloved books) about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature. A moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot is written & directed by three-time Oscar nominee Chris Sanders—of How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Lilo & Stitch. Starring Lupita Nyong'o as Roz; Pedro Pascal...

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It was about time that DreamWorks got DreamWorks’d. That’s what some animation fans must have been thinking back in 2010, when Despicable Me, a...

The 49th Toronto International Film Festival is set to run from September 5th to the 15th, 2024, and with those dates swiftly approaching, the festival has just revealed their first wave of titles and honorees (both via The Hollywood Reporter).

The film line-up includes “the world premiere of R.J. Culter’s new documentary Elton John: Never Too Late about the legendary British singer; the Korean drama Harbin from director Woo Min-ho (Inside Men) starring Hyun Bin, Lee Dong-wook, Park Jeong-min, and Jeon Yeo-been; Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, a genre-bending story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz, adapted from the Stephen King short story, and starring Jacob Tremblay, David Dastmalchian and Tom Hiddleston; Netflix’s Rez Ball, a coming-of-age tale about Indigenous basketball, directed by Sydney Freeland and produced by LeBron James; the world premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s animated feature The Wild Robot,...

The Toronto Film Festival unveiled its first raft of titles for its 49th edition in September, presenting a lineup that will include the world premiere of R.J. Culter and David Furnish’s new documentary Elton John: Never Too Late about the legendary British singer; the Korean drama Harbin from director Woo Min-ho (Inside Men) starring Hyun Bin, Lee Dong-wook, Park Jeong-min, and Jeon Yeo-been; and Nightbitch, a horror comedy from director Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Diary of a Teenage Girl) starring Amy Adams as a stay-at-home mom whose life takes a surreal turn. Adams will also be honored this year with the TIFF Tribute Performer Award for her life’s work.

“We know the TIFF audience has been eagerly anticipating what films will be coming to Toronto this September, and today’s announcement is a perfect snapshot of what’s to come this year,” said Anita Lee,...

Following rave reactions from a preview at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, DreamWorks‘ The Wild Robot trailer arrives to tease a grand adventure of discovery, defying directives, and finding your place in the world, even if that place is the most unlikely venue on the planet.

The Wild Robot follows the journey of a robot—Rozzum unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

Courtesy of the official press release for The Wild Robot:

The Wild Robot stars Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara as opossum Pinktail; Oscar nominee Bill Nighy as goose Longneck; Kit Connor as gosling Brightbill and Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu as Vontra,...

Universal and DreamWorks Animation have unveiled the latest trailer for The Wild Robot, a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller.

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—Rozzum unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

Check out the super cute trailer below and see the movie in theaters September 27.

I love this trailer… can’t wait to see this!

The film definitely looks to be among this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Animated Feature. DreamWorks has received 14 nomination for their previous films which include Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon,...

Chris Sanders is no stranger to making audiences drop their jaws in awe, right before making them sob during a film. The co-director of "Lilo & Stitch" and "How to Train Your Dragon" has time and time again delivered movies full of heart, thrilling action, and fantastic visuals. Now, he's back with "The Wild Robot," one of our most anticipated movies of the year, and if the footage shown to enthusiastic audiences at the Annecy Animation Film Festival is anything to go by, you better get your tissues ready.

Based on Peter Brown's celebrated middle-grade book of the same name from 2016, the film follows Rozzum 7134, or "Roz." Played by Lupita Nyong'o, Roz is a robot who gets stranded on a deserted island populated only by animals. While trying to survive and find a task to fulfill (as is her programming), she accidentally becomes the guardian of a baby gosling, from...

"You need to learn how things work on this island." Universal + DreamWorks Animation have revealed the second official trailer for The Wild Robot, which was just presented at the 2024 Annecy Film Festival in France. Arriving in theaters in September later in the year. After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. A powerful story (based on the books) about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot is written & directed by three-time Oscar nominee Chris Sanders—of How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Lilo & Stitch. Starring Lupita Nyong'o as Roz; Pedro Pascal as fox Fink; Catherine O'Hara as opossum...

Hulu has to be pretty pleased with its list of new releases for June 2024. That’s because it’s about to be the summer of The Bear once again.

The Bear season 3 premieres all of its episodes on June 27 on Hulu. This FX dramedy has proven to be one of the most successful shows of its era. Jeremy Allen White stars as Carmy Berzatto, a world-famous chef who returns home to Chicago to help his floundering family restaurant after the death of his brother. Season 2 saw The Original Beef of Chicagoland crew transform the spot into fine dining establishment The Bear. It ruled. So will season 3 probably.

FX is responsible for the other major TV release on Hulu this month. Clipped premieres on June 4 and is about the scandalous real life story of Donald Sterling, the awful owner of the basketball team the Los Angeles Clippers. Another intriguing TV option...

When Netflix released its latest major data set on Thursday — its second under the name of What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report — animated features continued to demonstrate a major impact for the streamer. Of the top 100 most viewed titles in the period of review, from July to December 2023, 33 were animated, bringing in a total of 1,087,600,000 views.

That being said, titles licensed from other studios continued to heavily overshadow Netflix originals, in terms of impact. Of the 33 animated titles in the Top 100, five were produced by Netflix; the Adam Sandler starrer Leo ranked the highest at #3 overall, coming in with 96 million views. Others that made the cut included The Monkey King, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the Oscar-nominated Nimona, The Sea Beast and Back to the Outback.

By far the greatest supplier of Netflix’s top ranking animated films was Universal, which through a exclusive licensing deal,...

June is busting out all over, especially on streaming. Whether it’s hiding from the heat or taking a break from school and work, Disney+ and Hulu are here to satisfying your mid-year entertainment needs.

Disney+ will premiere the first new live-action Star Wars since 2023’s middling to “The Mandalorian” Season 3 and “Ahsoka” with “The Acolyte,” starring “Squid Game” breakout Lee Jung-jae. The series is set before the events of “The Phantom Menace” with a familiar master-padawan storyline but new characters and a new era where that dynamic unfolds. The streamer will also premiere various new options for kids and family-friendly programming, as well as new episodes of “Doctor Who” starring Ncuti Gatwa.

On Hulu, FX comes in hot for the summer, along with an adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’s “Queenie,” the brat-pack documentary “Brats,” and yes — more “Love Island.” The TV and film library continues to shift with new and expiring titles,...

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in June. The Peacock June 2024 schedule includes Monkey Man, Love Island USA Season 6, The Valley season finale, Olympic Trials, Pride Month programming, and more.

This month’s sizzling line-up takes us back to the hottest villa on TV to meet a new group of bombshells in Season 6 of Love Island USA (premiering exclusively on Peacock on June 11). Grab a glass of wine for an extended and uncensored version of the season finale of The Valley, premiering Wednesday, June 5, exclusively on Peacock.

The streaming service will also offer titles like The Continental (season one is streaming now), the first three John Wick movies, Gladiator, and a trio of films from The Bourne franchise arriving June 1. Plus, don’t miss WWE’s legendary Clash at the Castle: Scotland in Glasgow on June 15 live on Peacock.

Kung Fu Panda 4 is now available to purchase on Digital HD and is set to arrive on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on May 28 - and to commemorate the occasion, we were able to catch up with director Mike Mitchell (Sky High; Shrek Forever After; Trolls) and head of character animation Sean Sexton (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish; How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World; The Croods) to talk about Po's latest awesome adventure.

We get into the making of the film and some of the intense conversations that were had behind-the-scenes when they decided it was time for Po to pass on the Dragon Warrior mantle, why they opted to not bring back the Furious Five, and the introduction of the deadly Chameleon, amongst other things.

Plus, we learn more about how they wanted to evolve Po's fighting style in this film with new animation...

One of the biggest kids series on the planet is coming to the big screen. DreamWorks Animation is in the works on “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie” and has set it for release on September 26, 2025 from Universal Pictures.

“Gabby’s Dollhouse” is the DreamWorks mixed media series for preschoolers that airs on Netflix and, according to Nielsen, was the most-streamed series that’s original to streaming in 2023. Each episode follows a girl named Gabby unboxing a surprise before jumping into a fantastical animated world of adorable cats living inside Gabby’s dollhouse.

Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey, who created the series, are executive producing the “Gabby’s Dollhouse” movie. Ryan Crego, who earned a Children’s and Family Emmy nomination for his TV feature “Arlo the Alligator Boy,” is directing the film.

In the new film, Gabby heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco.

Audiences will get the opportunity to preview footage from DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming animated feature “The Wild Robot” at the Annecy International Film Festival.

The studio, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, will showcase “The Wild Robot” footage on June 11 with a filmmaker presentation from writer and director Chris Sanders (“The Croods”). An Artists’ Panel discussion with the film’s creative leadership team will also take place later that day.

On June 12, the filmmakers will be doing a special book signing at the Bonlieu library.

Based on Peter Brown’s book, “The Wild Robot” follows the journey of Roz, a robot who finds themselves shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Roz soon learns to adjust to their new surroundings and finds friendship through the animals on the island. The film’s voice cast includes Lupita Nyong’o as Roz, Pedro Pascal as the fox Fink, Catherine O’Hara as the opossum Pinktail, Bill Nighy...

DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot will now go on Sept. 27 instead of Sept. 20.

The move comes in the wake of Paramount’s animated Transformers One parking on Sept. 20 (instead of Sept. 13) as the studio needed to get a foothold on Imax auditoriums.

We heard that Transformers One was moved to get further away from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as that Warner Bros Tim Burton directed, Michael Keaton starring sequel is expected to scare up a ton of September cash; that movie opening on Sept. 6.

The Wild Robot will now square off against Lionsgate’s Alexandre Aja directed horror Halle Berry thriller, Never Let Go as well as the tenth anniversary Imax re-release of Paramount/Warner Bros’ Christopher Nolan sci-fi movie, Interstellar.

The Wild Robot is based on Peter Brown’s New York Times No. 1 bestseller. The movie follows robot—Rozzum unit 7134 aka “Roz”. Roz is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and...

Things had been going so well at the box office over the past few weeks, so it was disappointing that none of the week’s three new wide releases made much of an impact. Read on for the weekend box office report.

Although Universal’s vampire thriller “Abigail,” directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (aka “Radio Silence”), had the best hopes of breaking out due to its cool horror premise and ensemble cast, Alex Garland‘s future shock thriller “Civil War,” starring Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura, was able to hold onto first place with $11.1 million, a drop of 57% from its record-setting opening for A24. The movie has grossed $44.9 million domestically so far, which already puts it in the top 10 all-time grossers for the studio after just 10 days.

Although horror tends to do quite well with younger moviegoers, “Abigail” and its cast, which includes Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton,...

2024 is going to be a wild year as it is going to mark the release of a number of epic films, that movie connoisseurs can not think of missing out on. However, it looks like fans will be forced to make a difficult choice as Chris Hemsworth has set his eyes on portraying the role of the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, in his latest project titled, Transformers One.

A still from Transformers One

As the film’s trailer looks promising, fans were excited to watch it. However, they now have to make a difficult choice as DreamWorks Animation is keeping their fans on their toes with their upcoming project titled The Wild Robot, featuring Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal, promising its viewers a visually stunning world.

What Do We Know About Chris Hemsworth’s Transformers One?

Paramount has officially released the first trailer for the next Transformers installment.

Three-time Oscar-nominated director Chris Sandlers and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o previewed unfinished footage of DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” at CinemaCon — what Sandlers says took inspiration from Disney classics and Hayao Miyazaki’s work, resulting in an original visual style that he described as “a Monet painting in a Miyazaki forest.”

Based on Peter Brown’s book, the story follows Roz, a robot voiced by Nyong’o, who is accidentally marooned on an uninhabited island. There, the city robot meets and learns from the animals in her new environment.

In this rich world, a fox meets and advises Roz. “You need to learn how things work on this island, and kindness is not a survival skill,” the fox says.

Soon Roz watches a gosling hatch, who believes Roz is his mother. They form a bond as Roz tries to figure out how the baby can learn to swim and fly.

Fallout is the most exciting Amazon Original dropping this month. From Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, this long-awaited adaptation of the popular video game franchise looks incredible, and is bound to be a hit among video game fans and newcomers alike. The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Righteous Gemstones), and Aaron Clifton Moten (Disjointed).

Prime Video doesn’t have much else in the way of original offerings this month, aside from the return of Alex Rider on Freevee a few other films and TV series, but there are plenty of popular films joining the streaming service’s library. Cloverfield, Batman & Robin, Titanic, and The Notebook are just a few of the notable movies coming to Prime this month.

Here’s everything coming to Prime Video and Freevee in April – Amazon originals are designated with an asterisk.

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Ring in a new month with Freevee! In addition to library additions like 1999’s provocative teen drama “Cruel Intentions” and 2020’s festival hit “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” the free Amazon streamer will both welcome back and say goodbye to its critically acclaimed espionage series “Alex Rider,” starring Otto Farrant, on April 5. Later in the month, the streamer’s new single-camera comedy “Dinner with the Parents,” starring Jon Glaser, Henry Hall, Dan Bakkedahl, Carol Kane, and more, will have its premiere.

Check out The Streamable’s top picks for what to watch on Freevee in April, and continue below to see all the titles and channels getting added to the streamer this month!

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The cult classic, which turned 25 earlier this month, arrives on the free streamer at the start of the month.

In a surprise announcement, DreamWorks Animation revealed that their hit 2022 film The Bad Guys is getting a sequel. The first film released in April of 2022 and went on to become a major success, earning $250.4 Million worldwide on an $80 Million budget. Now, the film has become DreamWorks’ latest multimedia franchise.

It's still good to be bad! #TheBadGuys are coming back to theaters summer of 2025! #TheBadGuys2 pic.twitter.com/wiw8nQ45oz

— DreamWorks Animation (@Dreamworks) March 27, 2024

The film will feature most of the cast returning with Sam Rockwell as the leader Mr. Wolf, Marc Maron as the safe-cracking Mr. Snake, Craig Robinson as the master of disguise Mr. Shark, Anthony Ramos as the brawling Mr. Piranha, Akwafina as the computer savvy Ms. Tarantula, Zazie Beetz as politician/former super criminal Diane Foxington, Alex Borestein as Police Chief Misty Luggins, Lilly Singh as reporter Tiffany Fliffit and even Richard Ayoade as criminal genius Professor Marmalade.

Kung Fu Panda 4 Box Office Numbers Are Impressive Even After 3 Weeks Attains This Amazing Milestone! ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

Po returns with his goofiness and is tasked by Master Shifu to train further and become the spiritual leader of the Valley of Peace in Kung Fu Panda 4. Jack Black mesmerized the audience with his fantastic voice acting, and the results showed at the film’s box office as it reached a significant milestone. Directed by Mike Mitchell, it was released earlier this month.

This is the fourth installment in this franchise, and the third part was released in 2016. The martial arts animated comedy films have entertained the audience, especially the young ones, since 2008. Hollywood stars like Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, and others have been a part of the franchise. Jolie voiced the character of Tigress. The franchise is over $2 billion now, thanks to the 4th installment’s impressive earnings.

Tráiler, póster y detalles de la nueva película de animación de Dreamworks, “Robot Salvaje”. © Universal Pictures

“Robot Salvaje”, de Peter Brown, una novela ilustrada para jóvenes adultos publicada por primera vez en 2016, se convirtió en un auténtico fenómeno, alcanzando rápidamente el número 1 en la lista de libros más vendidos de The New York Times. Ahora, DreamWorks Animation (el estudio responsable de éxitos como “Shrek” y “Kung Fu Panda”) lleva a la gran pantalla el fenómeno literario de Peter Brown bajo la dirección del nominado al Oscar Chris Sanders (“Cómo Entrenar a tu Dragón”).

Esta épica aventura sigue el viaje de un robot (la unidad Rozzum 7134 o “Roz”) que naufraga en una isla deshabitada y debe aprender a adaptarse al duro entorno, forjando gradualmente relaciones con la fauna local y convirtiéndose en la madre adoptiva de una cría de ganso huérfana. Una poderosa historia de autodescubrimiento, un apasionante examen de la unión entre tecnología y naturaleza,...