“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 ...

Directed by Mike Rianda and produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the Sony team innovated a new hand-drawn aesthetic. For first-time film director Mike Rianda (“Gravity Falls”), “The Mitchells vs.

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 ...

The Wild Robot has toppled many Box Office records since its debut in theaters, becoming an instant hit across the world and cementing itself as one of the year's best films. After recently entering ...

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, ...

Lilo & Stitch co-director Chris Sanders found a sweet spot between hand-drawn and CG animation for The Wild Robot. Photo: Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Lilo & Stitch co-director Chris Sanders found a ...

“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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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