Spider-Man is the template for the relatable underdog trope. Have you ever noticed how all other heroes are some billionaire ...

When “ How to Train Your Dragon ” director Dean DeBlois received a call from Universal telling him they were considering a ...

Whether it was BookTok and Fourth Wing becoming a huge thing – with a Fourth Wing TV show in the works, or it was House of ...

In an era of skepticism around live-action remakes, Universal believes audiences will take flight with Hiccup and Toothless ...

How to Train Your Dragon has set an audience score record for live-action adaptations of animated films, compared to all the ...

Director Dean DeBlois talks to io9 about the challenges of replicating the animated world of 'How to Train Your Dragon' in live-action. io9 recently caught up with filmmaker Dean DeBlois, the ...

But this version of “The Lion King” wasn’t live-action — it was fully animated. And directors of animated films are not traditionally covered by the DGA, hence the push to categorize this ...

Animation has been a part of cinema since the beginning — it’s believed that Emile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, made in 1908, is the very first animated film. It was, as all films were then, silent.

"How to Train Your Dragon" is already a success. Since 2010, the popular animated franchise based on the book series by Cressida Cowell has scored at the box office and raked in several Oscar ...

Since then, there have been a few independent animated films that have broken through the crowd of big-budget movies. One of the most disruptive was Pablo Berger’s 2023 film Robot Dreams, a ...

There are three Grinch films, all based on the 1957 children’s book “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” by Dr. Seuss. Two of the films are animated and one is a live-action movie starring Jim ...

In a category that is often filled with animated films geared toward children and families, “Memoir of a Snail” and its themes of depression and conversion therapy immediately stand out in ...