It sounds like the fanciful plot twist of an animated film-to have a snowman that can teach itself how to walk-but Disney’s ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

TORONTO, Canada—The early scenes of the new animated film The Wild Robot, which just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, offer the kind of heart-swelling, gasp-worthy wonder that is ...

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 ...

The Wild Robot, DreamWorks’ latest movie, proves that the departure in The Last Wish wasn’t a fluke, but the beginning of a new era. From director Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your ...