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DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology
The trailer dropped today for DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island (Universal, September 25), the studio’s first embrace of Filipino culture about friendship and memory. The comedy-adventure follows two lifelong friends who grow up together in the ’90s in the Philippines — Jo (singer H.E.R./Gabriella Wilson) and Raissa (Liza Soberano) — and the stakes of potentially growing […]
INTERVIEW: “Madagascar” Back In Theaters For 20th Anniversary

INTERVIEW: “Madagascar” Back In Theaters For 20th Anniversary

Avatar photoJackson Murphy|
January 10th, 2026
Directors Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell reflect on making the star-studded comedy classic, which spawned two sequels, a Penguins spinoff film, TV shows and holiday specials. And is a new installment is on the way?
INTERVIEW: A Devotion To “Wednesdays With Gramps”

INTERVIEW: A Devotion To “Wednesdays With Gramps”

Avatar photoJackson Murphy|
November 26th, 2025
A new DreamWorks Animation short focuses on a teen who visits his grandpa and discovers a passion that will strengthen their relationship. It is Oscar qualified and vying for Best Animated Short Film consideration. Co-Director Chris Copeland and producer Shabrayia Cleaver share what makes them so proud about Wednesdays with Gramps. (This Animation Scoop Q&A was […]

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Dreamworks Animation TV Garners 21 Daytime Emmy Nominations

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced yesterday the nominees for the 44th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. DreamWorks Animation Television was honored with 21 Daytime Emmy nominations, with Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters leading the charge with 7 nominations (the most of any animated program), including Outstanding Special Class Animated Program! The Mr. […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|March 23, 2017
Dreamworks Animation TV  Garners 21 Daytime Emmy Nominations

TRAILER: Dreamworks “Captain Underpants”

DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox have released the first trailer for Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie! Based on the bestselling book series and starring Kevin Hart and Ed Helms Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie tells the story of George and Harold, who hypnotize their principal into thinking he’s a ridiculously enthusiastic, incredibly […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|March 22, 2017
TRAILER: Dreamworks “Captain Underpants”

INTERVIEW: Gina Shay, Producer of “Trolls”

Producer Gina Shay fell in love with animation not long after she graduated from Pratt Institute, moved to LA and worked on Ralph Bakshi’s Cool World as a PA. Since then, she amassed production credits on features with DreamWorks, Disney, Nickelodeon and others. “For a while, I thought I might take the artist route,” she […]
Avatar photoGreg Ehrbar|January 27, 2017
INTERVIEW: Gina Shay, Producer of “Trolls”

Dreamworks “Trollhunters” Featurette

From the imagination of Guillermo del Toro comes a tale of two worlds set to collide in the epic saga DreamWorks Trollhunters, which follows ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. who inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia. Marc Guggenheim (TV’s Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Rodrigo Blaas […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|December 15, 2016
Dreamworks “Trollhunters” Featurette

Dreamworks “The Boss Baby” Official Trailer

Coming to theaters March 31st – and with Alec Baldwin, now hot with his hilarious impersonation of the elected President on SNL – comes Dreamworks’ The Boss Baby. 20th Century-Fox will release this hilarious and heart-warming universal story – about how a new baby’s arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|December 15, 2016
Dreamworks “The Boss Baby” Official Trailer

Charles Solomon’s Review of “Trolls”

In Pixar’s Inside Out, Pete Docter and his crew reminded audiences of the human truth that even life’s happiest moments are inevitably tinged with sadness. The power and honesty of that message makes the theme of DreamWorks’ Trolls — that we’re all just chock full of happiness if we’ll just let it out–feel simple-minded. The […]
Avatar photoCharles Solomon|November 4, 2016
Charles Solomon’s Review of “Trolls”

July Debut for Dreamworks/Netflix Plan “The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants”

TRA-LA-LAAAA! Get ready for a world of pranks, super villains, and your favorite underwear-wielding superhero in the Netflix original series DreamWorks The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants premiering July 13th. George Beard and Harold Hutchins are two best buds who share a love of comic books and practical jokes – and a strong dislike for […]