DreamWorks Animation Movie Updates

Iconic cartoon character Felix the Cat has found a home with Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks Animation.

Jeffrey Katzenberg has revealed his latest film project, Tibet Code, an Indiana-Jones-style adventure based on a series of Chinese novels set in 9th-century Tibet.

The studio is expected to announce its animated caveman sequel at CinemaCon.

New distributor Twentieth Century Fox today unveiled DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: DWA) feature film release slate for 2013 to 2016, which includes twelve CG animated films in four years — a major industry first.

The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons and singer-actress Rihanna will play the lead voices in Happy Smekday!, a DreamWorks Animation adaptation of the award-winning book The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex.

DreamWorks Animation has acquired rights to make a feature out of Captain Underpants, the popular 8-volume book series by Dav Pilkey.

MGM is jumping into the animation game with the children's book adaptation Punk Farm, the studio's first toon since All Dogs Go to Heaven in 1989 and only its second in-house project since emerging from bankruptcy.

Sony Pictures Animation has picked up the rights to Instant Karma, a comedy fantasy from Paul Hernandez, who wrote the script and is attached to direct what would be a live-action/CGI hybrid. SPA is picking up the project out of turnaround from New Line, where it has been set up since 2003. Before that, Karma was set up at Un ...

The four penguins of DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar are being trained to star in their first bigscreen feature.

DreamWorks Animation's theatrical release schedule is currently planned as follows: Kung Fu Panda 2 for May 26, 2011 and Puss In Boots for November 4, 2011; Madagascar 3 for June 8, 2012 and Rise of the Guardians for November 21, 2012; The Croods for March 1, 2013, Turbo for June 7, 2013 and Me and My Shadow for November 8, 2013 ...

DreamWorks Animation will be bringing witches and a magician's rabbit to the bigscreen with Rumblewick, a feature toon helmed by Antz director Tim Johnson.

DreamWorks Animation will adapt picture book and novel "Flawed Dogs," by cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, for the bigscreen.

Lidsville, the Kroffts’ 1971 series about a magical realm populated by living hats, will become a film for DreamWorks Animation, to be directed by Conrad Vernon, the studio is to announce on Monday.

DreamWorks Animation has gone ape for Monkeys of Bollywood, roping in composer A.R. Rahman, Broadway lyricist Stephen Schwartz and husband-and-wife producing team Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges to fast-track the studio's first animated feature musical.

Sneaking in one last deal before Hollywood shuts down, DreamWorks Animation has picked up the movie rights to Maintenance, an Oni Press comic book, nabbing it out of turnaround from Warner Bros.

DreamWorks Animation has set a March 2013 release date for Me and My Shadow. The original 3D toon will seamlessly combine CG and traditional animation, marking a first for the company.

"How to Train Your Dragon" has been designed as a trilogy, with the next pic set for release in 2013. But in the meantime, there's a traveling arena show, similar to "Walking With Dinosaurs," in the works, as well as the launch of a virtual world and weekly animated TV show planned to bow on Cartoon Network i ...

Guillermo del Toro has fallen under the spell of animation and is setting up "Trollhunters," a feature project he will write and direct at DreamWorks Animation.

Husband-and-wife screenwriters Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario have been hired to write "Imaginary Enemies" for DreamWorks Animation, the duo's representation at UTA has confirmed to TheWrap.

DreamWorks Animation is trolling for its own toy story, licensing the classic Happy Troll Doll character from Danish company Dam Things for the bigscreen.