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Image: DreamworksEverything old is new again, especially for Illumination. Whether it’s working in sequels to its franchises like Despicable Me or Sing!, or this week’s release of the Nintendo nostalgia trip that is The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the animation studio du jour has a lot on its plate, most of it continuations of familiar tales. That’s also the case for a fifth Shrek movie, apparently.Spoilers of the Week | June 3rdSpeaking to Variety about the long-awaited release of the new Mario film, Illumination CEO Chris…

Image: DreamWorks AnimationJust as 2022 was winding down, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish came rolling into theaters as an unexpected hit. The well-liked and Oscar nominated spinoff of DreamWorks’ Shrek franchise has been gradually gaining a strong, passionate audience in the months post-release, and grossed nearly $450 million worldwide. If you’re someone who was waiting to watch it from the safety of your home, you’re in luck.On Friday, DreamWorks announced that The Last Wish will hit Peacock on next week on March 10. The…

Image: DreamWorks/Universal PicturesThe Shrek universe proves it still has stories to tell with Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The sequel to the Antonio Banderas-led spin-off gives the DreamWorks franchise a soft reimagining that makes us excited for more.Recreating the canvas on which these stories are told, telling a truly heartfelt fairytale in a new animated style, is what really hooked us back in. Banderas’ Puss returns as the outlaw who hangs up his boots when he encounters an inescapable foe: death, since he’s on…

Michelle Pfeiffer has been acting since the late 1970s and became a star in the early 1980s thanks to Scarface. In her long career, she’s played a wide range of characters, including several rather fantastical ones. To celebrate her latest Marvel turn in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, here are our 10 favorite of…Read more... Michelle Pfeiffer has been acting since the late 1970s and became a star in the early 1980s thanks to Scarface. In her long career, she’s played a wide range of characters, including several…

Image: A24The 95th Academy Award nominations are here, and while there aren’t any big surprises, Michelle Yeoh and Everything Everywhere All at Once continued to receive their justly deserved due.Yeoh was, of course, nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, while Everything Everywhere All at Once was announced as a potential Best Picture. Everything also picked up nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Score, and more. The equally beloved Ke Huy Quan is in contention for Best…

Since being founded in 1994, DreamWorks has gone on to become arguably the biggest force in feature-length animation that isn’t owned by Disney, with audiences around the world instantly recognizing the company’s opening motif of the little dude fishing in the moon. Despite the old saying making it abundantly clear that you shouldn’t fix it if it isn’t broke, the company has gone ahead and done it anyway, and it hasn’t exactly been well-received. Taking a page out of the Marvel and DC playbook, the new and extended (but…

Images via Dreamworks Sometimes we fail to realize just how lucky we are to live in the age of cinema that exists right now, especially when it comes to animated offerings. Many of these animated stories started a while back now and we have grown up with them as they added more movies to their story. Despite the fact that many of us have grown up now, we can’t let go of these absolute bangers. But the question now lies before us, which would we pick if we had to only choose one? One user on Twitter has put…

Screenshot: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Meta ConnectAt the Meta Connect conference on Tuesday, the company made a big deal out of saying VR has transformed from a solitary to a social and shared experience. The company accentuated that in Horizon Worlds, people play games, record podcasts, make music, and “roast marshmallows.”And beginning next year, folks will also get to hang out in special experiences around their favorite NBC Universal shows and movies, such as The Office.Vishal Shah, Meta’s vice president of metaverse,…

Image: Dreamworks AnimationOf Dreamworks’ various franchises throughout the decades, Kung Fu Panda has become one of their biggest hits. After 2016's Kung Fu Panda 3, the series has primarily lived on through various CG spinoff shows and specials. (The most recent of which, The Dragon Knight, premiered last month on Netflix.) But not content with just releasing TV spinoffs of their film franchises, Dreamworks has gone and announced that the franchise is making its return to theaters in two years.Kung Fu Panda 4 is indeed…

has been in recent years, and now its animation division is preparing to make more tools freely available. DreamWorks Animation said it will release its MoonRay ray-tracing renderer as open-source software later this year. As notes, DreamWorks will offer up its Arras cloud rendering framework in the code base too. “We are thrilled to share with the industry over 10 years of innovation and development on MoonRay’s vectorized, threaded, parallel and distributed code base,” Andrew Pearce, DreamWorks vice president of…