There are two very different births in "The Wild Robot," the latest animated film from Universal Pictures. One is the birth of Rozzum 7134, a robot known as Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), who first boots up on ...

Dog, the furry main character of the animated “Robot Dreams,” lives a solitary life in New York’s East Village during the 1980s. The neighborhood hums, hoots and hollers with life, though in this case ...

“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 ...

Women executives in leadership positions are pushing animated juggernauts forward. Parity progress is happening, but not fast enough.

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, ...

Six directors behind some of the most acclaimed animated films of the year discuss why they fell in love with movies, the threat of AI and how even cartoons "can express great truths." By Scott ...

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 ...

Have you ever wished robots could do more than just follow instructions? Well, that’s where Mirokaï steps in. Born from the creative minds at Paris-based startup Enchanted Tools, Mirokaï isn’t just ...