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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

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
Home holds key to DreamWorks’ bottom line
Inside Out, Tomorrowland get PG ratings from MPAA
Pixar releases free version of RenderMan software
AV Interactive #5: DreamWorks Disorder

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
Why DreamWorks hates Cinderella
Nickelodeon launches animation scholarship
DreamWorks survival plan: rely on hit movies
Warner Bros. CEO says DC films are ‘edgier’ than Marvel
Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi talks Ghibli past and future
Calvin and Hobbes: America’s most profound comic strip
Big Hero 6 takes home Oscar

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 […]

Oscar Night 2015

The biggest night in movies is here…even if none of the movies themselves are that big! Come be part of our 11th Oscar event, with live show chat, our contest winners, and the consensus picks from our readers!

Dragons, robots, trolls run tight race for animation Oscar
Sneak peek of DreamWorks Home
Pixar in Concert depicts pairing of animation and music
Do animated features turn people into suckers?
After renovations, Disney’s animation building will be a hub of creativity
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

While Sponge has the humor and style kids expect, it never reaches the amazing highs the show achieved in its glory days — this is one sponge who should’ve stayed underwater.

Sony finally bringing Spider-Man to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe in new partnership
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water opens

Sponge Out of Water, Spongebob SquarePant’s second feature film and the first since the 2004 original, opens today in 3,641 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is doing well with the critics earning a respectable 73% on the Tomatometer. Their consensus is “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water won’t win over many […]