The new DreamWorks animated film “The Wild Robot” is projected to win the box office weekend against lackluster competition, possibly benefitting from stellar reviews that make it the best-reviewed ...

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 ...

Out with the new and in with the old … sort of. That sums up the retro-yet-original visual approach director and screenwriter Chris Sanders and DreamWorks animators traveled when creating the achingly ...

If we had a nickel for every time an animated robot made us cry, The Wild Robot would give us 15 cents and a lot of tears. We've seen a giant robot learn to love in The Iron Giant. We've seen a small ...

When multiple Oscar nominee Chris Sanders took on adapting Peter Brown’s beloved children’s book, “The Wild Robot,” he wanted to do something different visually than what he was seeing in other movies ...

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, ...

HOLLYWOOD — Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry and Mel Brooks will provide the starring voices of the 20th Century Fox Animation production “Robots.” Already two months into work on the computer-generated 3-D ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

"I would do literally anything for them... I'll clean their dirtiest corners." There's nothing humanity could use more right now than a few good laughs at technology. Don't worry, all this tech ...