Ferdinand is Blue Sky Studios’ twelfth animated feature film. Director Carlos Saldanha, whose most recent outing was Rio 2, directed this adaptation of Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 children’s ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm. Happily, that is ...

The pitch for Ferdinand is simple. Like so many other classic kids movies and stories from throughout time, it all stems from the idea of a character born into a certain kind of world or family, but ...

Aside from their reactions to Bugs Bunny’s antics in Looney Tunes, the grandfathers of animated film story developer Warren Leonhardt seemed different to him in every way. Yet when it came to the ...