Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is getting a sequel, and stars Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake will be back for it. Universal today set an April 10, 2020, release for Trolls 2, a date they had set aside earlier as an untitled Universal event film. This will be the follow-up to the 2016 hit that has…

Editors Note: This story originally ran on December 8, 2016. If you happen to have come within earshot of a speaker over the last six months, there's a fair chance you'll have heard Justin Timberlake's joyous summer song, "Can't Stop the Feeling!", which must surely be one of the most regularly-played tracks of the…

Mike Mitchell, who most recently directed the DreamWorks Animation hit Trolls, is set to helm the sequel to Warner Bros’ The Lego Movie. He replaces Rob Schrab, who had been attached. Matt Fogel penned the most recent version the pic, which has a February 8, 2019 release date. It follows the first one which bowed in…

EXCLUSIVE: Prior to today, Justin Timberlake had been nominated for every top award in music except for … well, the two — Oscar and Tony. Today, Oscar danced, danced, danced into his pocket with a Best Song nomination for “Can’t Stop The Feeling!” from the soundtrack of the DreamWorks Animation pic Trolls. And it…

"I can honesty say I've always wanted to combine the two — I never thought it would be Trolls,” Justin Timberlake said of the DreamWorks Animation film in which he both acted and handled the soundtrack. The superstar added, "It was so fun every day." The multi-Grammy and Emmy winner was speaking onstage at The Contend…

Director Mike Mitchell had a ball with his latest DreamWorks endeavor, working alongside Walt Dohrn and a cast of musical virtuosos to bring the vibrantly colorful Trolls to the big screen. A musical animated adventure, pitting a community of colorful creatures against the unhappy, Troll-eating Bergens, Trolls has an…

With Veterans Day falling on a Friday, it’s bound to be another big weekend at the box office after last weekend’s overall ticket sales surged +117% to $191 million over the previous pre-Halloween period. The holiday brings with it 52% of all K-12 schools off and another 30% of U.S. colleges on break according to…

UPDATE, TUESDAY AM PT, writethru with actuals: Disney/Marvel's Doctor Strange continued to boost the overseas fall box office with a $118.9M 2nd frame. That was a slight bump from the Sunday estimate of $118.7M and levitates the magic show to a $240.7M offshore cume. With domestic included, there was $325.5M in the…

Update Sunday 10AM, after 7:34 AM post: Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange is charting a No. 1 opening of $85M at 3,882 theaters, sending the weekend’s overall ticket sales to $192M, which is a huge wake-up of +118% over last weekend’s sleepy pre-Halloween FSS, and +19% from a year ago when Spectre led all films. At a…

Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” has been a huge hit worldwide since debuting in the summer, but the song was composed for DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls, and occupies a huge emotional point in the film. Timberlake, who also co-stars in the animated pic, not only wrote the song but served as the film’s…

The music is the real star of DreamWorks Animation’s latest, Trolls, which not only features lots of happy (very happy) characters based on those famous Troll dolls with the Don King-like hairstyles, but also the script and attitudes are quirky enough to keep parents from tearing their hair out when they are forced to…

Exhibitors are holding out for a hero this weekend, and that caped wonder is Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange, who is expected to save the fall box office from its atrocious 10% lag from the same post-Labor Day-to-Halloween period a year ago. Doctor Strange is the second live-action Marvel title after Thor: The Dark Worl…