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HeyUGuys Presents: Dreamworks Animation 2013 Preview

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Let’s face it, animated films are a huge deal.   To the studios that make them, they are a guaranteed cash cow.  Next to Pixar, Dreamworks Animation is right at the top of the heap with hits like SHREK, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, and the MADAGASCAR films.  HeyUGuys was invited to New York this week [...]




Author Cressida Cowell Talks How To Train Your Dragon Sequels

How To Train Your Dragon 2 & 3

Yesterday, as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, author Cressida Cowell conducted a Q&A to promote the latest instalment of her How To Train Your Dragon series of books. Following a special screening of DreamWorks’ superb adaptation, however, talk inevitably turned to the future of the cinematic sister series. As DreamWorks’ second most successful [...]




First Trailers for How To Train Your Dragon TV Series Dragons

How to Train Your Dragon

DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon was released to wide critical acclaim back in 2010, and took just short of an impressive $500m. at the international box office, as well as a slew of awards, sweeping up with ten wins at the Annie Awards, and a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards [...]




DreamWorks Animation Releases Film Schedule Through To 2014

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DreamWorks Animation have announced a very exciting total of nine films to be released in the coming five years. Three of the nine will be sequels to previous successes (Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3, and How To Train Your Dragon 2), and the rest will be originals – albeit, with Puss In Boots being [...]




Gerard Butler to return for Dragon 2 – Original Cast Complete

Stoick the Vast

It seems that every week Dean DeBlois is making headlines with his hugely anticipated sequel to 2010′s roaring animated success: How to Train Your Dragon. For all the good reasons, this steady flow of information is doing little to desensitize us to the prospect of another trip to Berk. On the contrary, I for one [...]




How to Train Your Dragon Sequel The “First Act In A Much Larger Story”

How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy

Today looked to have resigned itself to being just another Tuesday. That was only, however, until news reached us that the previously reported How to Train Your Dragon sequel is in fact set to be the first act in a much bigger story. Dean Deblois, co-director of the first film and lone director of the [...]




Tim Johnson Promises How To Train Your Dragon 2 Will Be ‘Much Bigger’

While we already knew that DreamWorks’ magisterial How to Train Your Dragon was to receive a sequel, and that the budding franchise was set to make its small screen début in the interim, we had little information regarding how forlorn Viking Hiccup’s story might continue. Speaking to Italian site BadTaste, executive producer Tim Johnson spoke of DreamWorks‘ current plans for the highly [...]




Producers Guild of America Nominations Announced

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The Producers Guild of America announced the nominations for the 2011 Producers Guild Awards. Highly acclaimed films The Social Network, True Grit, 127 Hours and Black Swan are all nominated in the Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures category, with Toy Story 3, Despicable Me and How to Train Your Dragon competing for the Outstanding [...]




Steven Neish – 2010 – A Year in Highlights

2010 Highlights

Joining HeyUGuys back in June of this year, I was eager to put my personal popcorn addiction to good use. A Psychology student by day and an usher by night, I had built up an encyclopaedic knowledge of film over three years of part time work, ever broadening my horizons with a determination to watch anything [...]




Dreamworks Animation Acquire Film Rights To Maintenance

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Dreamworks Animation (Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon) have acquired the adaptation rights to Maintenance. Maintenance, an Oni Press comic book, “follows the exploits of two janitors who work for TerroMax, Inc., the world’s biggest and best evil science think tank. When they’re not dealing with toxic spill monsters and menial time machine repairs, they [...]




Black Swan Leads Critics’ Choice Nominations

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Black Swan, the forthcoming psychological ballet thriller from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky, picked up an unprecedented twelve nominations at the annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The King’s Speech and True Grit follow closely with eleven nominations each, while The Social Network and Inception each accumulated nine. The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will take place on [...]




DreamWorks’ Dragon and Pixar’s Toy Story Lead 2010 Annie Awards Nominations.

The full list of nominations for the 38th Annie Awards were announced today with Dreamworks’s How to Train your Dragon gathering up the majority of nominations including Best Feature, Animation, Character Design and Voice Work for Gerard Butler and Jay Baruchel, as well as Directing nominations for Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Pixar’s Up took [...]




Interview with Jeffrey Katzenberg on Megamind, DreamWorks & 3D Cinema

Jeffrey Katzenberg

I had the great pleasure of seizing a few minutes of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s time yesterday and being the ‘K’ in DreamWorks SKG as well as the Chief Executive busy out promoting the prolific studio’s newest, bluest 3D animated hero Megamind before his UK debut, I am sure you can imagine how little of these precious [...]




How to Train Your Dragon DVD Review

How to Train Your Dragon

Recently announced as a contender for Best Animated Film alongside Toy Story 3 and thirteen others, revisiting How To Train Your Dragon on DVD or Blu-Ray will only act to solidify its worthiness of a place on the eventual shortlist. After a decade of playing second fiddle to Pixar by releasing pale imitations of such [...]




Megamind is Still Tops at the US Box Office but Denzil Isn’t Too Far Behind

Megamind has managed to hold its position on the top spot at the American box office for the second week running. It made an estimated $30.1 million this week, bringing the total to nearly $90 million ($89,757,000). It’s been a great year for the studio so far, having scored a huge money-making hat trick with [...]




How to Exploit Your Dragon: Hiccup and Toothless Heading To TV

How to Train Your Dragon

With Monsters vs. Aliens and the Madagascar penguins already riding the airwaves, and Shrek scheduled for a televisual reprise, it is no surprise that Dreamworks has announced via Deadline plans to bring another of their properties to TV. How to Train Your Dragon, a sequel for which was this week confirmed, will also continue on [...]




Dreamworks Give Details on How to Train Your Dragon Sequel

Without doubt, one of my favourite films of the year was How to Train Your Dragon. It was announced what feels like ages ago that we could expect a sequel some time in 2013. Today, a press release comes from Dreamworks who produced the movie to announce that Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah [...]




Guillermo Del Toro Preps For Transmedia Landscape With Trollhunters

Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro, man of many trades and talents,  with an impressive filmography and growing literary footprint, will soon be able to add consultant to his already remarkable résumé. THR is reporting that the man behind the Hellboy franchise is not only set to write and direct an animated feature for Dreamworks Animation, but is to consult on [...]




Viacom are Financially Viable

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In these times of  financial uncertainty, at least one Hollywood studio is still bringing in the bucks. Variety is reporting that media conglomerate Viacom (who own Paramount Pictures) have posted a 40% profit in the past quarter. This has been partly achieved by international  box office results for Iron Man 2 and animated features How to [...]




Increase in UK Box Office Takings

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We’re in the middle of a recession but Hollywood is still proving popular with the UK audience as Variety are reporting that box office takings for the first half of the year are up 3% on the same time in 2009. They claim the increase in 3d movies being release. I guess it would be [...]