Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

“The Wild Robot” director Chris Sanders was feeling a little lost himself. In 2020, he ventured into live-action filmmaking with “The Call of the Wild,” an ambitious, imperfect adaptation of Jack ...

It was everything Sanders wanted: subtle, emotional, and character-driven. “Sometimes when I see a property like this, I actually get a little bit anxious, because I feel like I know what to do,” he ...

“The Wild Robot” has a lot to say and its own way of saying it. It’s a big-studio animated feature that has its own look, feel and identity, wrapped around an unusual story with ample humor and plenty ...

"Sometimes to survive we must become more than we were programmed to be." Universal + DreamWorks Animation have unveiled the first official trailer for The Wild Robot, their next big animated movie.

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked ...