Robots are often used in animated movies to cast light on uniquely human quirks, which helps explain why they are central to so many classic movies. Some of the best animated movies ever focus on ...

Based on a series of successful books, the movie has tremendous kid appeal, never ignoring that while nature is beautiful, it is red in tooth and claw. Adults connect to it because it digs into the ...

In 2018, when director Pablo Berger was thinking about his next movie, he happened to crack open one of his favorite graphic novels, a short, wordless story about a dog and a robot, best friends who ...

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 Wild Robot” has clearly struck a chord. The DreamWorks Animation feature, written and directed by Chris Sanders, stars Lupita Nyong’o as a robot (she calls herself Roz) who washes ashore on an ...

While most people woke up very early for the Oscar nomination announcements this morning, Chris Sanders watched the feed from Tokyo, Japan. As the last stop on his tour of premiering The Wild Robot, ...

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 ...