When Universal’s “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” opened in December 2022, the “Shrek” spinoff sputtered to a $12.4 million debut. Then, something miraculous happened. Thanks to TikTok and solid buzz, ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Out of the lab and into the wild. The Wild Robot tells the story of ROZZUM unit 7134, aka Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), an advanced humanoid robot that washes up on a remote island after ...

In modern IP culture, you occasionally get films that feel like total filler, movies that only exist to remind people that, oh yeah, that franchise is still around. 2024 movie theaters have already ...

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 ...

Did I have long stretches of happy grinning while watching Robot Dreams, even on my subsequent rewatches, when I knew what was coming? Yes, I did. An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human traits to an animal or inanimate object, is the time-honored way cartoonists and movie animators made points about life — and made their appeal — to readers ...