EXCLUSIVE: The Boss Babydirector Tom McGrath is returning to helm the DreamWorks Animation sequel. The first 2017 movie earned McGrath an Oscar nomination in the animated feature film category and grossed over $527M at the worldwide box office. It also spawned a Netflix series The Boss Baby: Back in Business. The B…
Like Lee Unkrich's vibrant Day of the Dead-themed Coco and Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, the annual Academy Awards are an affair marked by the collision of two worlds.
In Coco, there's contemporary Mexico and the land of the dead; in The Breadwinner, early 2000s Afghanistan and a world of imagination. At the Oscars…
The Los Angeles City Council and six of its Hollywood partners today announced the seventh annual Made in Hollywood Honors, which celebrate Oscar-nominated films produced in Greater Los Angeles and California. A24’s Lady Bird, Disney/Pixar’s Coco and Fox’s The Boss Baby will be feted Tuesday during a ceremony at City…
Looking for his next project following Megamind and three Madagascar films, director Tom McGrath was happy to go "from soup to nuts" with Dreamworks' The Boss Baby, a adaptation of a children's book by Marla Frazee, in which he would be tasked with visualizing a child's imagination of the corporate world.
A "cute…
After greenlighting Trolls 2, Universal is moving forward with another DreamWorks Animation sequel title: The Boss Baby 2 starring Alec Baldwin will hit theaters on Friday, March 26, 2021. Currently no other major studio releases are on that date, which is the weekend before Easter when Fast & Furious 10 opens.
While…
UPDATE, WRITETHRU: This frame saw the first shift at the top of the international box office since Disney's Beauty And The Beast initially twirled through offshore turnstiles last month. With a $36.1M weekend, Belle and her beau dipped from their No. 1 perch to No. 3 in the session, trailing Ghost In The Shell…
Whether lending his voice to a tyrannical baby or convulsing Saturday Night Live viewers as a muddled president, Alec Baldwin is defining a new level of celebrity. His movie, The Boss Baby, sits stop the box office chart; his candid new memoir is being praised by reviewers; he glowers from the cover of Vanity Fair…
UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Leading the overseas dance for the 3rd frame in a row, and as they approach $900M worldwide, Disney's Beauty And The Beast clocked a $66.5M overseas frame for a running cume of $480.8M at the international box office. This offshore weekend was a 45% drop from the sophomore session for Belle and her…
Writethru Sunday, 8:00 AM: Sunday estimates are in and we have a new boss at the top of the box office with DreamWorks Animation’s 34th title The Boss Baby will cash an opening weekend check of $50.3M at 3,773 theaters via 20th Century Fox. (Fox thinks it’ll end the weekend with $49M). Disney’s Beauty and the…
It seems that most animated movies aimed at kids these days are mostly exclusively laden with animal characters with human traits, but DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby has other ideas, and as I say in my video review above for lovers of genuinely amusing toons it is a wildly funny, original and entertaining flick…
Riffing on current box office behemoth Beauty And The Beast, DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby has subtitled its latest trailer, “A Tale NOT As Old As Time” — and added a candlestick and clock for good measure. The Fox release of the Tom McGrath-helmed pic stars Alec Baldwin as the eponymous besuited infant who…
The first trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby comes at just the right time, with Alec Baldwin in the news for his current Donald Trump run on Saturday Night Live. In Tom McGrath’s 3D-animated pic that has a spring 2017 release date, Baldwin didn’t seem to have to stretch far from his current gig: he…
