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How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World director Dean DeBlois came to The Contenders London with the third and final entry in the Oscar-nominated animated franchise, which debuted in 2010 and has since grossed $1.6B at the global box office. Adapted from the book series by British author Cressida Cowell, the latest…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Universal Pictures and Mandeville Films are in development on Treasure Island, a new feature take inspired by the 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel which two-time Oscar nominated How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker Dean DeBlois will direct. Beauty and the Beast scribe Evan Spiliotopo…

Deadline has confirmed that How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker Dean DeBlois is directing and writing Paramount/Hasbro’s live-action sci-fi pic Micronauts, based on the popular kids’ toys from the 1970s and 80s. The toys, little plastic men with move-able joints –which differed from Kenner’s decor, stiff jointed Star Wa…

Awardsline recently held a special screening of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated animated feature How To Train Your Dragon 2 which drew a large crowd at the Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles. And now over this weekend it further established credentials in vying for frontrunner status in the Animated Feature…

We have an animated Oscar front-runner, ladies and gentlemen. How To Train Your Dragon 2 dominated the 42nd annual Annie Awards tonight. The DreamWorks Animation sequel won Best Animated Feature, Best Director for Dean DeBlois and four other trophies during the ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Its two studio rivals were…

­­­At Deadline's 2014 Contenders event we sat down with the talented director behind one of the year's most successful and highly acclaimed animated feature films, How To Train Your Dragon 2. Dean DeBlois discussed the conception of the project, the star-studded cast, as well as the challenges and joys of producing a…

The creators behind DreamWorks Animation’s hit film How To Train Your Dragon 2 – writer-director Dean DeBlois and producer Bonnie Arnold – sat down with Deadline’s Dominic Patten during Deadline’s recent The Contenders event to talk about the challenges and opportunities of building a beloved franchise about a boy and…