Peter Brown, an author and illustrator, was drawing pictures for a children’s storybook when he sketched a robot standing alone in a tall pine tree. The sketch, he realized, didn’t work… ...

Like the novel, the movie opens with a storm that leaves a robot stranded on an island inhabited by animals. Rozzum 7143, or Roz for short, is accidentally activated by a group of curious otters.

Young readers in Maine recently got to meet the creator of the popular children's book The Wild Robot. Peter Brown is a no ...

Parents who buy the book for their kids find themselves moved by a story that is not intended for them but somehow speaks to them. Peter Brown's "The Wild Robot" is one such book.

EXCLUSIVE: After crossing $100M globally last weekend, The Wild Robot filmmaker Chris Sanders confirmed this morning at Deadline Contenders that a sequel to the pic is on the way and currently in ...

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 ...

Production designer Raymond Zibach says the brushstroked look of “Wild Robot” is “very naturalistic in that it’s like sloppy nature painting. Oil pastels are kind of Impressionistic.

The robot — ROZZUM unit 7134, or “Roz” for short — is voiced by Lupita Nyong’o in a spectacularly nuanced performance, sprightly robotic at first and eventually natural and wry.

Based on the best-selling and award-winning 2016 middle-grade book of the same name by Peter Brown, “The Wild Robot” lands in theaters on Sept. 27.

Like the novel, the movie opens with a storm that leaves a robot stranded on an island inhabited by animals. Rozzum 7143, or Roz for short, is accidentally activated by a group of curious otters.