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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 ...

When filmmaker Chris Sanders began to imagine what his fifth animated film, “The Wild Robot,” might look like on the big screen, he was stuck on one crucial idea: how to turn Peter Brown’s ...

Writer/director Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, Lilo & Stitch) once again proves why he is one of the greats in multi-level animated storytelling: The Wild Robot movie is both a ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Robot Dreams (now streaming on Hulu) takes the show-me-don’t-tell-me movie M.O. very seriously. The animated film ditches dialogue entirely to tell the story of a dog ...

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, ...

Since the dawn of Hollywood, animated cinema has given kids a wealth of iconic movies, from Peter Pan and Snow White to Scooby-Doo and The Incredibles. When they were originally created, these films ...

Sometimes friends have a special song that means something to them and only them. For a dog and robot in the animated film "Robot Dreams," it's an Earth, Wind & Fire song - "September." (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Awards Circuit Column: A banner year for the animation medium warrants more than one to be embraced in the best picture category. Is the Academy willing to vote for more than one? It’s been a banner ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...