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Atiya Henry named Executive VP of Production for Disney Branded Television

March 25th, 2026

Henry will oversee all aspects of production for Disney Branded Television’s portfolio of award-winning animated and live-action programming for Disney+, Disney Jr. and Disney Channel, including titles such as “Descendants,” “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” and “Phineas and Ferb.”

DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology

Bill Desowitz|

March 25th, 2026

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 […]

Illumination Highlights Heading Into Second “Mario” Movie

Jackson Murphy|

March 24th, 2026

16 years after the first "Despicable Me", Illumination is widely regarded as one of the powerhouses in animation, in large part thanks to "Mario" and those Minions... some of the most iconic animated characters of all time.

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INTERVIEW: For Jodi Benson, Voicing Ariel was the Ultimate Sea Change

Feature animation flipped on its tail three decades ago, when Disney’s The Little Mermaid premiered and ushered in a “second golden age.” Today, the new Walt Disney Signature Edition of The Little Mermaid appears in stores and online, and whether seeing for the first or 400th time, it never ceases to wield its gentle power, […]

Greg Ehrbar|February 26, 2019

INTERVIEW: Dean DeBlois Talks Completing “How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”

DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon saga will do down in animation history as one of the most beloved and successful franchises of all time. Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the 2010 original, and then went solo for 2014’s “Dragon 2”, is back at the helm for the finale of the trilogy – How to Train […]

Jackson Murphy|February 13, 2019

Meet Gidget – Via the New “Secret Life Of Pets 2” teaser

A new teaser trailer has dropped for The Secret Life of Pets 2 and we thought we’d share it. The Illumination film, scheduled for June 7th release via Universal, will see the return of writer Brian Lynch (Minions) and once again be directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me series, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax) with co-director […]

Jerry Beck|January 31, 2019

Interview With The Dreamworks Director Trio on “Bilby”

After years of producing award-winning feature-length films, DreamWorks Animation announced they were getting into the “shorts” business in November 2017. And this year their first two short films have made it onto the finalists list for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar. One of the entries is Bilby, which emerged from the DWA feature “Larrikins”, […]

Jackson Murphy|January 9, 2019

Season Two Trailer: DreamWorks “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle”

From executive producer Scott Fellows, the world-famous talking moose and flying squirrel are back in season 2 of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, a serialized comedy divided by unique arcs about two goofball best friends who routinely find themselves thrust into harrowing situations but end up saving the day time and again. The series […]

Jerry Beck|January 3, 2019

Dreamworks’ Oscar Short-listed Shorts Now Online

Dreamworks has dropped – for a few weeks only – their two Oscar shortlisted short films Bird Karma (directed by William Salazar) and Bilby (directed by Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel and JP Sans). Both shorts from the inaugural launch of the “DreamWorks Shorts” program are being strongly considered by the Academy for an Academy Award.

Jerry Beck|December 21, 2018

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Creator Radford Sechrist and Exec Producer Bill Wolkoff discuss “Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts”