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EXCLUSIVE: Peacock will double down on its animated kids programming slate, unveiling a number of new and returning titles including two follow up series to DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind and Abominable. The streamer has also renewed Babble Bop!, the musical dance jamboree series for preschoolers, for Season…

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Culton, who recently directed and wrote Dreamworks Animation-Pearl Studio's Abominable, has signed with Verve. The CalArts alum is one of the first females in animation history to both direct and write a feature original story following Brenda Chapman’s co-directing and co-writing on Pixar’s The Brave…

DreamWorks Animation’s films have taken families to the fairy tale worlds of Shrek and the fantasy worlds of How to Train Your Dragon. Abominable takes its young heroes on an adventure through real landmarks of China, with a lovable yeti named Everest in tow. Abominable director Jill Culton told the crowd recently at…

DreamWorks Animation films How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Abominable set out to tell a story of transformation, growth, and individuality as the characters embark on their perspective journeys. For How to Train Your Dragon 3, that journey has spanned over a decade. The final installment finds…

The evocative power of music is considered essential across the breadth of contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, but it may be most vital and potent in animation. The challenges of composing for the medium was front and center during the DreamWorks Animation panel at the recent The Contenders Los Angeles, which…

Approached by DreamWorks Animation about the prospect of helming a "Yeti movie," writer/director Jill Culton seized what she saw as both an opportunity and a challenge, "to reinvent and define a mythical creature in a new way for audiences," she says. Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September…

Note to would-be directors of animated features: get your composer involved from the start. That was one of the key observations from The Contenders L.A. DreamWorks Animation panel Saturday, that featured filmmaking talent behind How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Abominable. "I try to put get [composer]…

Abominable has been frozen out of theaters in Vietnam. The animated adventure from DreamWorks Animation and Shanghai-based Pearl Studios ran afoul of the Vietnamese government because of a map in the film illustrating China’s claims to a vast portion of the South China Sea, the BBC reported Monday. The scene that…

2ND MONDAY UPDATE, writethru: Just as it has domestically, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Bron Studios' Joker has come in higher in the overseas weekend actuals — and even higher than what we were hearing earlier this morning. A huge jump of $11.7M more than projected yesterday has lifted the international box office…

This week it’s a special all-Bigfoot editon of the Hero Nation Survey, our Monday column on sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and animation news. It’s not easy watching imitators walk in your oversized footsteps. That sentiment was expressed by none other than Bigfoot himself while taking to Deadline for a rare interview tied…

UPDATE, writethru: In its sophomore frame, Fox/New Regency's Ad Astra again led the international box office, landing another $18M from 50 material markets. The overseas cume is $53.5M for $89M worldwide. The Brad Pitt-starrer is now out in all markets handled by Disney which is not across China, Taiwan or Hong Kong…

SUNDAY AM FINAL w/chart: After a $9 million Saturday that was up 58% over Friday, DreamWorks Animation/Pearl Studio’s Abominable is looking at a $20.85M opening and $30M worldwide. As we mentioned before, that’s the seventh No. 1 opening for Universal in 2019 —  eight if you count last weekend’s Downton Abbey — and it…