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Guillermo del Toro will be improving all your Dreamworks animated features from here on out

Thanks to the popular How To Train Your Dragon, genre legend Guillermo del Toro has signed a deal with Dreamworks as an executive producer hired to help improve all of their animated features. His first project: Trollhunters! [THR]

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 28

Dreamworks to turn those nightmare troll dolls into a movie

Remember those awful toys your obnoxious coworkers would litter all over their desks? Dreamworks is keen on turning the hideous troll doll toy line into an animated feature, with a complex mythos. Sounds timely. [THR]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 23

Bad 3D Will Be the Death of 3D

Variety recently talked to Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, about the state of 3D film making. Katzenberg promptly released the Kraken on Clash of the Titans. Here’s why he thinks it could spell the end of 3D. As Katzenberg reminds us, “all 3D is not created equal.” The post-production 3D in Clash of the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Apr 10

Will Ferrell Reveals His Bulbous Blue-Headed Supervillain, Megamind

The first teaser trailer for Dreamworks’ Megamind is out, and it perfectly encapsulates the hilarious insanity that we saw in the preview footage. But wait until you hear supervillain Will Ferrell spar with damsel in distress Tina Fey. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-dreamworks-supervillain-epic-megamind-5453236 Synopsis: After super-villain Megamind (Ferrell) kills his good-guy nemesis, Metro Man (Brad Pitt), he becomes bored,…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 18

First Look At Dreamworks’ Supervillain Epic, Megamind

We got an early look at footage of Dreamworks’ supervillain epic Megamind. With Will Ferrell as the lead, and Tina Fey as the scrappy reporter, we had high expectations. So was it funny, or a flop? Spoilers ahead… First off, we find out that Megamind wasn’t always evil. At least his childhood concept design doesn’t…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 20

Robots Are Getting Their Own World War Z

With zombies, vampires, and ecological disasters destroying the world, it’s time robots got another shot at the apocalypse. And soon a book and movie from the writer of How to Survive a Robot Uprising could put humanity under robot rule. Daniel Wilson is angling to be the Max Brooks of robots, having written How to…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 4

Monsters Versus Aliens Dies, See Their Final Halloween Clip

Monsters Versus Aliens will not become the next CG franchise – sorry, Insectosaurus, you’ll have to be put down. Take a look at their last gathering in this Halloween special clip. Sad news for the playful and clever collection of CG pals cast in Dreamworks Monsters Versus Aliens. While taking a conference call, Jeffey Katzenberg…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 28

Star Trek Writers Tackle Xombie’s Undead Superhero

In web cartoon turned comic book Xombie, a sentient zombie protects a lone human girl from the mindless undead. Now DreamWorks is in talks to bring Xombie to the big screen, along with Star Trek’s Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. In Xombie, a zombie named Dirge has somehow managed to retain his human consciousness, though…

Movies Lauren Davis Sep 23

Four Gets Smallvilled For Michael Bay’s Pleasure

Despite the massive success of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen this summer, it’s looking more likely that Michael Bay is about to follow through on his robot vacation threat; he’s hired writers to script a new movie, and it’s bot-free. Variety reports that Bay and Dreamworks have brought Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Miller…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 30

Bay Swaps Robots For Angst-Ridden Aliens In Number Four

With Transformers fast on its way to becoming almost as big as The Dark Knight, Michael Bay and Dreamworks have already announced their next project together… and it doesn’t involve robots, in disguise or otherwise. Bay and Dreamworks have pre-emptively picked up the movie rights to unpublished novel I Am Number Four for an undisclosed…

Movies Graeme McMillan Jun 27

Nothing Can Stop The Ultimate Victory Of Oobermind (Except Oobermind Himself)

Dreamworks recently released their slate of upcoming animated films, and the poster for their 2010 supervillain comedy Oobermind caught our eye. The film features the voices of Robert Downey Jr. and Tina Fey, but what is Oobermind actually about? There are a lot of conflicting reports regarding Oobermind, which probably has something to do with…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins Jun 5

Meet Rainn Wilson’s Army, From Monsters Vs. Aliens Superbowl Trailer

Strap on your 3-D glasses and prepare to meet the alien army of Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson), from the Monsters Versus Aliens teaser that just aired. Looks like Ginormica gets the drop on the would-be overlord.

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 1

Monsters Versus Aliens Versus Stephen Colbert

Monsters Versus Aliens isn’t just the most important movie of our time — it’s also the future of movie-making. Dreamworks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg showed us about 20 minutes of MVA, and talked 3-D breakthroughs. Spoiler panic! After seeing a large chunk of the movie’s first third, I’m still pretty excited. The voice performances, by talents like…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 16

Dwight Schrute’s Giant Robot Holds The World To Ransom

We knew Reese Witherspoon had a blast being massively blonde as Ginormica in Monsters Versus Aliens. But I hadn’t realized how much fun Rainn Wilson was having as the film’s alien villain, Gallaxhar, until I saw this new behind-the-scenes feature from Entertainment Tonight. (Wilson also looks to steal the show as a leather-pants-wearing professor in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 6

Dreamworks Makes Our SF Movie Dream A Priority

Newly independent movie studio Dreamworks has put together a list of movies that they’re considering “high priority” projects – and amongst them are two movies that you’ll probably be seeing a lot more of on this site in the future. One of them, Cowboys & Aliens, we’ve told you about before, but the second –…

io9 Graeme McMillan Nov 16

Are You Ready For War With High-Tech Undersea Aliens?

Writers Alan Kurtzman and Roberto Orci managed to transform the old Transformers franchise into a hit movie, and everyone’s hoping they’ll do the same for Star Trek. But will they be able to work similar magic with a graphic novel that almost nobody has read, that hasn’t even finished publishing in comic-book form? They just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 17

Will Steven Spielberg Eviscerate “Ghost in the Shell”?

Ghost in the Shell, a classic anime cyberpunk flick from the 1990s, has mesmerized fans for years with its brutal-but-philosophical story of what happens to a woman’s identity when she merges with technology on physical and psychological levels. Set in 2029, the movie starts out as a pure actioner with our cybercop hero Motoko sleuthing…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 15

Stop! Why It Still Isn’t Safe to Buy Blu-ray

Click to viewBy now you know waaaaay too much about Toshiba’s format-war surrender, the death of HD DVD at the hands of the larger Blu-ray armada. You may even be eying the Blu-ray players mounted proudly in point-of-sale displays at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. Pricing hasn’t come down to HD DVD player levels—and with those…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman Feb 28

Dreamworks Still Tied to HD DVD’s Corpse By Toshiba Contract

Okay, so one big studio actually hasn’t made the jump to Blu yet: Dreamworks, which was paid $100 million to join HD DVD back in August. As we had pieced together in our closed-door analysis, they can’t break rank until Toshiba lets them. Says Dreamworks chief: “It really is in their court at this point…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Feb 27

What’s Happening With Neil Gaiman’s Interworld?

Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves’ Interworld has been optioned by Dreamworks Animation a decade after they first pitched it to Hollywood. The story of a boy who can travel between alternate universes is now in the lovely world of development. Although whether that’s development hell or development utopia remains to be seen. Click through for…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 6

Guillermo del Toro will be improving all your Dreamworks animated features from here on out

Dreamworks to turn those nightmare troll dolls into a movie

Bad 3D Will Be the Death of 3D

Will Ferrell Reveals His Bulbous Blue-Headed Supervillain, Megamind

First Look At Dreamworks’ Supervillain Epic, Megamind

Robots Are Getting Their Own World War Z

Monsters Versus Aliens Dies, See Their Final Halloween Clip

Star Trek Writers Tackle Xombie’s Undead Superhero

Four Gets Smallvilled For Michael Bay’s Pleasure

Bay Swaps Robots For Angst-Ridden Aliens In Number Four

Nothing Can Stop The Ultimate Victory Of Oobermind (Except Oobermind Himself)

Meet Rainn Wilson’s Army, From Monsters Vs. Aliens Superbowl Trailer

Monsters Versus Aliens Versus Stephen Colbert

Dwight Schrute’s Giant Robot Holds The World To Ransom

Dreamworks Makes Our SF Movie Dream A Priority

Are You Ready For War With High-Tech Undersea Aliens?

Will Steven Spielberg Eviscerate “Ghost in the Shell”?

Stop! Why It Still Isn’t Safe to Buy Blu-ray

Dreamworks Still Tied to HD DVD’s Corpse By Toshiba Contract

What’s Happening With Neil Gaiman’s Interworld?

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