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After co-directing 2016's Trolls—the critically acclaimed box office smash from DreamWorks Animation—Walt Dohrn made the leap to lead director with the equally catchy sequel, Trolls World Tour. While Dohrn had honed his craft in animation for over 20 years, spending much of that time at DreamWorks, he says his ascent…

Justin Timberlake is undoubtedly a musical superstar, but increasingly he has impressively been showing his acting chops on the big screen, a major reason I wanted to include him in my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. He has worked with a number of top-ranked directors in the past including the Coen brothers (In…

Coming off the heat of the first DreamWorks Animation movie Trolls, a bonanza musical that saw its tune “Can’t Stop the Feeling” from Justin Timberlake get nominated for a Best Song Oscar on top of going quadruple platinum, the sequel Trolls World Tour was always going to be more music, more color, more glitz and more…

Universal is moving up The Croods: A New Age from its December 23 release date to Wednesday, November 25. The move indicates the studio’s confidence that, according to recent reports, Disney will move Pixar’s Soul out of the Thanksgiving stretch. Soul is still scheduled to debut November 20 on the same weekend as…

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…

The hope for NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell in the studio’s new unprecedented 17-day theatrical window collapse-PVOD deal with AMC Theatres is to make more money in the post theatrical windows which have waned in recent years. “Movies are our lifeblood,” said the NBCUniversal pro-PVOD exec, “Over the last couple of…

EXCLUSIVE: Those in town assuming that one of the other big exhibition circuits will fall in line with AMC and seek their own 17-day theatrical window-PVOD deal with Universal will soon realize that it will be a cold day in hell. Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger, who oversees the world’s second largest chain…

After AMC CEO Adam Aron publicly threatened that he would never play Universal movies as along as the studio had a plan for simultaneous theatrical-PVOD releases like Trolls World Tour, the world’s No. 1 exhibitor and the Hollywood studio have broken bread with the following multi-year agreement: Universal and Focus…

EXCLUSIVE: Trolls franchise filmmaker Walt Dohrn has inked a multi-year deal with DreamWorks Animation, Deadline has learned. A longtime DreamWorks talent, Dohrn will have an overall first look exclusive deal for original animated projects at the studio along with executive producing, directing, development and…

Korean hit #Alive kicked up another $2.2M this weekend, holding well throughout the mid-weeks, but with an overall 63% Friday-Saturday-Sunday dip from the comparable weekend days last session. The timely thriller that's set against the backdrop of a city in lockdown due to a virus has now grossed $11M. It's a…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie Jurassic Park was No. 1 for the fourth time in its release history this past weekend as movie theaters tried to have a semblance during the COVID-19 pandemic over what is typically a big moviegoing weekend, Father’s Day. While 2020 fare like Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Trol…

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi said the chain is in "active discussions" with Universal over windows but choses to do it privately instead of entering "the media fray" that exploded when AMC Entertainment threatened not to show Universal films. "I know that Universal is committed to the theatrical business" for big films…