Doug Sweetland Movie Updates

Warner Bros. is amping up animated movies, forming a think tank-style creative consortium that's aimed at delivering one high-end film per year.

Doug Sweetland, the animator behind last year's Oscar-nominated Pixar short “Presto,” will make his feature debut with Sony Pictures Animation’s "The Familiars." Sam Raimi and Josh Donen are exec producing the project, which is based on the just-published children’s book by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson.