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REVIEW: “The Spongebob Movie: Search For Squarepants”
If it weren’t for Paramount executives deciding to give the film a full-feature treatment rather than a streaming release to Netflix, we might have missed theater-sized entertainment.
Director Derek Drymon Talks ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’

Director Derek Drymon Talks ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’

Avatar photoBill Desowitz|
December 12th, 2025
Derek Drymon, longtime writer and creative director of the SpongeBob SquarePants series, finally got to direct the latest "Search for SquarePants" movie. We talked to him about it.
INTERVIEW: Ninja Turtles Holiday Power In “Chrome Alone 2”

INTERVIEW: Ninja Turtles Holiday Power In “Chrome Alone 2”

Avatar photoJackson Murphy|
December 1st, 2025
Kent Seki, the cinematographer of 2023 animated feature Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, has directed the new holiday short Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey. Seki dives into the making of the short, which is Oscar qualified and will screen in theaters nationwide with The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants starting December 19th.

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REVIEW: Paramount’s “Wonder Park”

Cameron “June” Bailey is an irrepressible young girl who, by age 10, proves capable of mentally designing an amusement park that Disney’s Imagineers would envy. Her parents admire her creativity; Mom whispers June’s suggestions into the ear of Peanut (a monkey with a magic pencil) and a magical ride appears in June’s imaginary “Wonderland”. (Makes […]
Avatar photoMartin Goodman|March 15, 2019
REVIEW: Paramount’s “Wonder Park”

FIRST LOOK: Paramount’s “Wonder Park”

Here’s our first look at Wonder Park, the first film from the in-house Paramount Animation studio, run by Don Hahn and Karen Rosenfelt (the film will be released under the Nickelodeon Movies banner). It tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive. Here’s […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|July 9, 2018
FIRST LOOK: Paramount’s “Wonder Park”

TRAILER: MGM/Paramount’s “Sherlock Gnomes”

The beloved garden gnomes from Gnomeo and Juliet are back for a whole new mystery adventure in London. Directed by John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda) this action-packed sequel features the voices of returning cast, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Stephen Merchant and Ozzy Osbourne, plus Johnny Depp as Sherlock Gnomes, Chiwetel Ejiofor […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|November 7, 2017
TRAILER: MGM/Paramount’s “Sherlock Gnomes”

REVIEW: “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on The Run”

As of 2021, SpongeBob SquarePants had hit the skids. New episodes of the wildly popular Nickelodeon series (now in its 21st year) had dribbled down to a sporadic trickle, and with creator Steve Hillenburg gone, the fire seemed to have died. Several veterans of John Kricfalusi’s old Spumco outfit (aided by other veteran writers and […]