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‘Forgotten Island’: How DreamWorks Made a Love Letter to Filipino Culture and Mythology

September 22nd, 2026

For DreamWorks directors and best friends Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish), Forgotten Island offered an opportunity to make an original movie that was a wildly imaginative love letter to their shared Filipino culture and mythology.

First Look at Dreamworks’ “Cocomelon: The Movie”

Jerry Beck|

May 15th, 2026

Universal Pictures, Moonbug Entertainment, Flywheel Media, Prime Focus Studios and DreamWorks Animation today debuted the first look and announced the all-star cast for CoComelon: The Movie set to arrive in theaters on Friday, February 19, 2027. The film’s cast includes SZA (One of Them Days), Ike Barinholtz (The Studio), Nicholas Hoult (Superman), Sarah Sherman (Saturday Night Live), Ego Nwodim (Saturday Night Live), Josh Johnson (The Daily Show), Matt Friend (Family Guy), Rhys Darby (Jumanji: […]

DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology

Bill Desowitz|

March 25th, 2026

The trailer dropped today for DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island (Universal, September 25), the studio’s first embrace of Filipino culture about friendship and memory. The comedy-adventure follows two lifelong friends who grow up together in the ’90s in the Philippines — Jo (singer H.E.R./Gabriella Wilson) and Raissa (Liza Soberano) — and the stakes of potentially growing […]

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INTERVIEW: Director Joel Crawford on “The Croods: A New Age”

It’s been more than seven and a half years since DreamWorks Animation released The Croods, the caveman family adventure comedy that earned nearly $600 million worldwide and an Oscar nomination. A sequel has been in development, on and off, ever since. Now, finally, The Croods: A New Age is here and will be opening in […]

Jackson Murphy|November 19, 2020

INTERVIEW: “Doug Unplugs” Exec Producers on Their Electric New Series

Doug Unplugs is a new DreamWorks Animation series premiering tomorrow, November 13th, on AppleTV+. It’s based on author Dan Yaccarino’s book, Doug Unplugged, and centers on a sweet, fun friendship between a robot boy and a human girl. Executive Producers Jim Nolan and Aliki Theofilopoulos have wholeheartedly invested themselves in this show and hope it […]

Jackson Murphy|November 12, 2020

INTERVIEW: “The Mighty Ones” Creators Bring Outdoor Antics Into Living Rooms

“You can never out-weird nature. There’s so much cool stuff going on down there once you look.” That’s how co-creator Sunil Hall teases the new DreamWorks animated series The Mighty Ones, which debuts this Monday November 9th on Hulu and Peacock. Hall co-created this comedy with Lynne Naylor. It’s about four tiny talking nature creatures, […]

Jackson Murphy|November 6, 2020

TRAILER: Dreamworks “The Mighty Ones”

It isn’t easy being small, but backyard pals “The Mighty Ones” — aka Rocksy, Twig, Leaf, and Very Berry—see their tiny world as one huge, never-ending adventure. Created and executive produced by animation veterans Sunil Hall (Pickle and Peanut, The Mighty B!) and Lynne Naylor (Samurai Jack, The Ren & Stimpy Show), the 10-episode first […]

Jerry Beck|October 27, 2020

Final Four Animation Panels of Virtual NYCC 2020

It’s the last day of a very different New York Comic-Con. Let’s Yabba Dabba Doo this! Kicking off the Sunday panels: The Flintstones 60th Anniversary Celebration, moderated by actress Yvette Nicole Brown. To tie-in with this milestone for Primetime Network TV’s first animated series, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is releasing The Flintstones: The Complete Series […]

Jackson Murphy|October 11, 2020

UPDATED WITH TRAILER: Universal “The Croods: A New Age”

Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age will move up from December 23th, 2020, to Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in a wide release. Will it play theaters – or go to streaming? No one can say – but the studio is determined to go head to head with Pixar’s Soul and become […]

Jerry Beck|September 17, 2020

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