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In the wake of Dreamworks Animation being purchased by Comcast, the third How to Train Your Dragon was a key part to relaunching the studio in the wake of Jeffrey Katzenberg at its new home with Universal Pictures. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World wraps up the relationship between dragon rider Hiccup and his…

After it debuted in 2010, DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon swept the board at the following year's Annie Awards. Four years later, the first sequel debuted in Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar in the Animated Feature category. This year’s entry, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, looks set…

For producer Bonnie Arnold, saying goodbye to the world of How to Train Your Dragon has been bittersweet. Bringing three films to life over the past 13 years, Arnold aimed to be as creatively bold with series closer The Hidden World as she had been with the prior two films, sticking to her guns with an ending that…

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe winning filmmaker Dean DeBlois and his Anvil Pictures banner has signed a first look production deal with Universal for his live-action and hybrid projects and an exclusive overall animation deal with Dreamworks Animation. In addition, DeBlois is putting into…

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…

Over the last decade, writer/director Dean DeBlois has dedicated himself to one fantastical world with a trilogy of How to Train Your Dragon films, always striving to push creative boundaries—not least with the final film of the bunch, The Hidden World. The film picks up with Viking Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel)…

“There’s a lot of sitting around watching YouTube cat and dog videos, and we try to inject into these dragons as many of the attributes we see in our own domestic pets as possible,” director Dean DeBlois said during Deadline’s The Contenders London event, where he discussed creating the mythical beasts in How to Train…

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…