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Disney cruise ship gets Star Wars upgrade
via CNET, April 22, 2015 | Category: News
Going Inside Out with Ralph Eggleston
via Animation Scoop, April 22, 2015 | Category: News
Inside Out writer in negotiations to pen Captain Marvel
via Hollywood Reporter, April 16, 2015 | Category: News
EA, Illumination to launch gaming pact with Minions Paradise
via Variety, April 16, 2015 | Category: News
DreamWorks Animation CEO pay drops 53 percent
via Hollywood Reporter, April 16, 2015 | Category: News
How Pixar solves tech problems from the Inside Out
via TechCrunch, April 13, 2015 | Category: News
DreamWorks sets Dragons, Dinotrux for summer Netflix debut
via Animation Magazine, April 7, 2015 | Category: News
Should the Marvel Cinematic Universe extend to animation?
via Screen Rant, April 6, 2015 | Category: News
Disney, Sony, DreamWorks antitrust suit dismissed, for now
via Deadline, April 6, 2015 | Category: News
Home
James R Whitson, March 30, 2015 | Category: Theatrical

Home is a lackluster and innocuous affair that will, at best, be forgotten about the day after you see it, or at worst, make you ask if you can has those ninety minutes back.
Home opens
March 27, 2015 | Category: News

DreamWorks’ Home opens today in 3,708 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film isn’t winning over the critics, with a 42% Rotten Tomatoes score. Their consensus: “Colorful, silly, and utterly benign, Home is a passable diversion, but there’s no shortage of superior animated alternatives”. BOM projects a tight race for the weekend box with […]
Listen to two new songs from the Home soundtrack
via The Rotoscopers, March 26, 2015 | Category: News
Home holds key to DreamWorks’ bottom line
via The Wrap, March 26, 2015 | Category: News
Inside Out, Tomorrowland get PG ratings from MPAA
via Box Office Mojo, March 24, 2015 | Category: News
Pixar releases free version of RenderMan software
via Animation Magazine, March 24, 2015 | Category: News
AV Interactive #5: DreamWorks Disorder
James R Whitson, March 16, 2015 | Category: AV Interactive

To celebrate the release of DreamWorks’ 31st feature, Home, show off how familiar you are with their history! Arrange these twelve films into the order they were released.

Laika expanding animation studio by 70 percent
via The Oregonian, March 12, 2015 | Category: News
Why DreamWorks hates Cinderella
via DailyFinance, March 12, 2015 | Category: News
Nickelodeon launches animation scholarship
via Animation Magazine, March 12, 2015 | Category: News
DreamWorks survival plan: rely on hit movies
via Variety, March 9, 2015 | Category: News
Warner Bros. CEO says DC films are ‘edgier’ than Marvel
via ComingSoon.net, March 9, 2015 | Category: News
Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi talks Ghibli past and future
via RocketNews24, March 9, 2015 | Category: News
Calvin and Hobbes: America’s most profound comic strip
via Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2015 | Category: News
Big Hero 6 takes home Oscar
February 23, 2015 | Category: News

Disney took home both animated Oscars this year winning the Best Animated Feature award for Big Hero 6 and the Best Animated Short award for Feast. Interstellar won the trophy for Visual Effects. Big Hero 6 beat out How To Train Your Dragon 2, Song of the Sea, The Boxtrolls, and The Tale of Princess […]