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When Stitch returns to theaters this weekend in the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, the little blue guy isn't just going to look like he did back in 2002. He's also going to sound the same ...
When multiple Oscar nominee Chris Sanders took on adapting Peter Brown’s beloved children’s book, “The Wild Robot,” he wanted to do something different visually than what he was seeing in ...
Chris Sanders, director and screenwriter of DreamWorks’ highly praised The Wild Robot, has just received his fourth career Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature for the film, after previous ...
TheWrap magazine: Chris Sanders takes us behind the scenes of what he called one of “the biggest moments in the film” Drew Taylor January 8, 2025 @ 1:00 PM DreamWorks Animation ...
Part of what makes “The Wild Robot” so exciting is that it is pure, unfiltered Chris Sanders, from top to bottom. In it, a robot, ROZZUM 7134 or Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) washes ashore ...
Sanders considers the film’s softer, more organic look ideal for the forested environment in which it takes place: “Really, there’s no surface on a character nor in the sky, nor on a tree or ...
When director Chris Sanders decided to take on The Wild Robot, the script had been at DreamWorks Animation for a few years. In what he deems to be a stroke of luck, Sanders came in at the perfect ...
Filmmaker Chris Sanders was visiting DreamWorks Animation to see what was in development, when he came across Peter Brown’s novel “The Wild Robot.“ The first few sentences of Brown’s story ...
There’s much more to the story beyond that brief sketch (including some well-executed action sequences), but that would be telling. And “The Wild Robot” deserves to surprise you.
While most people woke up very early for the Oscar nomination announcements this morning, Chris Sanders watched the feed from Tokyo, Japan. As the last stop on his tour of premiering The Wild ...
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 ...
NYT Critic’s Pick Directed by Chris Sanders Animation, Sci-Fi PG 1h 42m Find Tickets When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.