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Sky has signed a “long-term” content agreement for hundreds of hours of DreamWorks Animation TV series, including How to Train Your Dragon, Trolls, and Madagascar spin-offs. Sky will have exclusive access to Madagascar: A Little Wild, TrollsTopia and Dragons Rescue Riders: Heroes of the Sky, as well as returners such…

DreamWorks Animation and Netflix have announced today that Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, the animated epic adventure film from Guillermo del Toro, will hit the streaming service in 2021. Currently in production, the pic is set in the world created by del Toro in his epic Tales of Arcadia trilogy. Arcadia may look…

Hasbro will remove a Trolls World Tour doll from major retailers following complaints that it encourages child abuse and pedophilia. The toy company announced Wednesday that it will remove the movie’s “Trolls World Tour Giggle and Sing Poppy” doll from store shelves after an online petition signed by upwards of 160…

Marty Cohen, a longtime editor and post-production chief who worked on more than a dozen Steven Spielberg films for Amblin and DreamWorks and whose producing credits include such hits as The Hunger Games and Godzilla, has died. He was 67. An Amblin spokesperson said Cohen died May 17 of natural causes after a long…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

The Tribeca Film Festival announced its 2020 Shorts Program lineup Thursday including the world premiere of DreamWorks Animation's To Gerard and projects with Benedict Cumberbatch, Dennis Quaid and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. As cancellations and postponements rock the entertainment landscape, Tribeca said it’s still a go…

DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures announced today that Sam Mendes’ 1917 will start shooting on April 1 on location in England and Scotland. The film follows two young British soldiers (Captain Fantastic's George MacKay; Game of Thrones' Dean-Charles Chapman) on a single day at the height of World War…

Universal will be releasing Judd Apatow’s Pete Davidson comedy on June 19, 2020, and will open DreamWorks’ Henry James-inspired thriller The Turning on Jan. 24, 2020. As Deadline reported, the Apatow comedy is the filmmaker’s first since the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwrecked. There is no reported logline for the…

For the third time since his 2012 Oscar-nominated film Flight, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis tanked at the box office last weekend, with Universal/DreamWorks’ Welcome to Marwen bottoming out with $2.3M at 1,911 theaters. This feature adaptation of the 2010 documentary Marwencol was an attempt by the director to deliver a…

What do words cost? In contemporary Hollywood, quite a bit, apparently. If you believe those who say First Man was hurt by Ryan Gosling's 'globalist' defense of director Damien Chazelle's decision not to depict astronaut Neil Armstrong's planting of an American flag on the moon—and the Internet is crawling with those…

EXCLUSIVE: American Idol alum Kelly Clarkson is pulling double duty for DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls sequel, titled Trolls World Tour. The crooner will voice the character Delta Dawn, the mayor of the Country Trolls, and sing an original song in the film. Clarkson joins returning voice cast members Justin Timberlake…

Two years after Spotlight won best picture at the Oscars, there’s another newsroom drama in the awards season race, Steven Spielberg’s The Post. The film recounts the Washington Post‘s race during the early 1970s against the New York Times in the breaking news coverage of the Pentagon Papers, a study leaked by former…