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Netflix to Make Shows Based on DreamWorks Characters, Cement Their Dominance Over the World’s Children

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:07 am, June 17th, 2013

Netflix-less parents, be prepared to buy a Netflix account so you can get your kids to shut up about wanting to see the new How to Train Your Dragon TV show. That’s how parenting works, right? You can tell I’d be such a quality mother.

I would kind of like to see a How to Train Your Dragon show, though.

Everybody Run for the Hills: Troll Dolls Are Coming Back, This Time As a Movie

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:01 am, April 12th, 2013

…a movie and a TV show.

If you just reared back from your computer in horror, you’re not alone.

Things We Saw Today: Have an Out of this World Night’s Sleep Under this Astronaut Duvet Cover

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, February 15th, 2013

Tony Stark expresses my feelings on this astronaut duvet cover by Dutch company Snurk (“For Horizontal Living”) rather nicely. (Boing Boing)

Dreamworks Animation is Proud of Having an 85% Female Group of Producers

by Susana Polo | 12:29 pm, December 6th, 2012

The Hollywoord Reporter has a short article up online today (originally appearing in the magazine’s December issue), which reveals that Dreamworks Animation may be the only big Hollywood company out there to have more women in significant positions of power than men. Which makes some amount of sense for the company that backed the only big-budget animated film in history so far to be directed by a lone woman, Jennifer Yuh Nelson‘s Kung Fu Panda 2.

Mellody Hobson To Chair Dreamworks Animation

by Susana Polo | 12:31 pm, October 30th, 2012

Mellody Hobson joined Ariel Investments as an intern shortly after graduating from college, and less than a decade later was president of the company, making it the largest African-American owned mutual fund company in the US. She’s been on the directorial board of Dreamworks animation (as well as Starbucks, Groupon, and Esteé Lauder) for some time now, and now she now ascends to head of the board.

Will Masters of the Universe Reboot Have The Power To Make He-Man Cool Again?

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:45 pm, July 31st, 2012

Let’s be honest here, I’m a She-Ra kind of gal but He-Man is certainly one of those 80s icons I appreciate (and not only for his awesome dance moves). But like most beloved childhood franchises, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is prime for a reboot and it just so happens to already be in the works. G.I. Joe: Retaliation director Jon M. Chu is taking up the Sword of Grayskull.

DreamWorks Acquires Classic Media, Awesome Stuff On The Way (Trust Us)

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:10 am, July 24th, 2012

DreamWorks Animation, the folks who brought us Shrek, Madagascar, and How to Train Your Dragon, have just acquired the privately owned animation studio, Classic Media. Why should you care? Classic Media owns the motherload of awesome cartoon and comic properties. And all it cost them was $155 million in cash. Hit the jump to find out what characters from your childhood we’ll likely be seeing again very soon.

Northeasterners Rejoice: DreamWorks To Open Theme Park In New Jersey

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 2:01 pm, July 12th, 2012

For those of us in the Northeast, our fandom-based pleasures are often woefully far away — Comic-Con is in San Diego, Disney is based in both California and smack dab in the middle of Florida, with Universal’s Marvel Island right along side it. But now, with any luck, DreamWorks animation may answer our prayers for a closer source of franchise-based amusement with their plans to build a new theme park in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Who’s ready for a Puss In Boots ride?

More Eligible Animated Films in 2011 Means More Oscar Nominees

by Jamie Frevele | 3:58 pm, November 6th, 2011

Last year, only 15 animated films were eligible for the Academy Award for Best Animated Film, so there were only three nominees (winner Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Illusionist). But this year, there are 18 films eligible (full list after the jump), so there could be as many as five nominees. Some of them haven’t even come out yet (Happy Holidays, Tintin!), but it’s never too early to guess who’s a shoo-in and who might be snubbed!

Steven Spielberg Is Making A Robopocalypse Movie, Also Zombies

by Susana Polo | 12:02 pm, September 8th, 2011

How exactly does one sell Steven Spielberg the film rights to a book the day before you sell the book to a publisher? And then publish the book in June and get Dreamworks and Fox interested in funding it by September? Is there a course I could take? A muse I could please? A demon to trade?

Or do I just have to write a book where GLADoS is a computer virus that takes over all of the world’s technology and nearly wipes out the human race.

Also, there are human corpses reanimated by machine parasites purely to commit psychological warfare on remaining humans, or, robot zombies.