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The 2025 Oscar nominations dropped earlier this week, and one notable multi-nominee is The Wild Robot: along with being recognized in the Best Animated Feature category, the Academy also nominated the ...
The animated adventure "The Wild Robot," based on Peter Brown's 2016 children's book, is set to sweet mode, as if it was a preinstalled factory setting. It's heartwarming the way a latter-era Coldplay ...
Chris Sanders says 3D technology hindered creative freedom until Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse changed everything.
Will The Wild Robot get a sequel? Since the book series the movie is based on is a trilogy, it’s natural to wonder whether a sequel is in the works. Fans are in luck: Director Chris Sanders revealed ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
The film opens on an uninhabited island in the near future, where a Universal Dynamics cargo ship has crashed and left boxes of ROZZUM utilitarian robots scattered across the shore. One, who dubs ...
The Wild Robot (2024) Film Review from the 68th Annual London Film Festival, a movie directed by Chris Sanders, written by Chris Sanders and starring Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill ...
Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin. Twins ...
The "Crosstown Express" sequence, in which robots voiced by Ewan McGregor and Robin Williams take rapid transit to the factory where they were "born," is an exhilarating masterpiece. The plot of ...
Pablo Berger talks about treating his animators like actors, and what he learned from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in making his wordless film. He spent two-and-years on animation education, but ...
Dog, the furry main character of the animated “Robot Dreams,” lives a solitary life in New York’s East Village during the 1980s. The neighborhood hums, hoots and hollers with life, though in this case ...