Chris Sanders' "The Wild Robot" stays true to Peter Brown's book ending. Sanders faced challenges but received DreamWorks Animation's full support for the book's ending.

UPDATE: Jan. 23, 2025, 3:20 p.m. EST "The Wild Robot" was reviewed out of its premiere at Fantastic Fest 2024. This review was originally published on Sept. 21, 2024.

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to ...

The second book, The Wild Robot Escapes, follows Roz as she ventures into a futuristic world filled with humans and other robots while grappling with her island past, according to Brown’s website.

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… ...

A 98% score would rank “The Wild Robot” among the top 10 best-reviewed computer-animated films of all time on Rotten Tomatoes and the highest-scoring animated movie released in the 2020s.

Topline “The Wild Robot” took the top spot at the box office and exceeded many projections for its debut weekend, multiple outlets reported Sunday, as Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed ...

Lupita Nyongo, Pedro Pascal, and Kit Connor Form an Unexpected Family in 'The Wild Robot' Anybody who’s seen Lupita Nyong’o perform knows that the Oscar-winning actor’s range knows no bounds.

The Wild Robot still etched its name into the history books by becoming one of the top 75 highest-grossing sci-fi movies ever at the domestic box office, passing Deep Impact (1998) and The Matrix ...