DreamWorks Animation Remembers To Announce 'Forgotten Island' For Fall 2026
The film is directed by 'Puss In Boots: The Last Wish' director Joel Crawford and his co-director Januel Mercado
For a studio that’s managed to put out at least two films a year since 2018 not only through the brunt of the COVID pandemic having had a sibling studio the entire time, it sure would have been weird for the only film DreamWorks Animation to have on the 2026 schedule be for the final ten days of the year, that being Shrek 5. Well that’s because it wasn’t. Universal Pictures announced that the DreamWorks film they had flagged for September 25, 2026 is an original titled Forgotten Island.
The film is written and directed by Puss In Boots: The Last Wish director Joel Crawford and his co-director on that film Januel Mercado. It is described as a broad party comedy adventure that brings the film’s protagonists to a long forgotten, magical island rooted in Philippine mythology. More specific plot details were not revealed. Crawford’s longtime collaborator, Mark Swift, will produce, while it is Mercado’s first full directorial effort. Crawford posted to his Instagram “It’s happening! This has been a passion project of ours for the past four years and now, we’re official! “Forgotten Island” promises to be a wild adventure but it is a very personal story for the both of us.” He also shouts out a “kick-ass” crew.
DreamWorks Has Alarming Annie Awards Night With 'The Wild Robot' Sweep And 'Orion' Wins
The 2025 Annie Awards were held Saturday night, and it was sweepingly wild. In fact, “wild” and “fire” were a little too close together again on a night that once again honored firefighters as the community reels from the Los Angeles wildfires, and the fire alarm went off leading to an approximate 20 minute evacuation and delay. Their Animaid fundraisin…
The fact that not only were plot details sparse but no images from the newly-announced film were released, even concept art, probably explains why it wasn’t part of the studio’s CinemaCon presentation just two weeks ago. The September 25 weekend is the same on which DreamWorks sat the financially and critically successful The Wild Robot in 2024, which attracted a lot of the same awards attention The Last Wish did. In between, for September 26 of this year is Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, bringing the studio’s beloved preschool-aimed live-action/animation hybrid Netflix series to the big screen. Directed by Ryan Crego, the film finds title star Laila Lockhart Kraner as Gabby on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi, played by Gloria Estefan, to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco. But when Gabby’s dollhouse, her most prized possession, ends up in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera, played by Kristen Wiig, Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back together and save the dollhouse before it’s too late. Crego also wrote the film with Melanie Wilson LaBracio and Adam Wilson, based on the characters created by series creators Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey.
2025 is a year that started with Dog Man, and continues with the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake, which was screened in full at CinemaCon, and unlike Disney’s stock of remakes of their animated films is a production of the animation studio the original film is from. The confidence in the film is so high that a sequel to the remake was announced at CinemaCon for a June 11, 2027 release. Before Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie is released, there’s still The Bad Guys 2 on August 1, making for a four-film 2025 for the studio.
'Avatar' Aang Movie Serves Combination Platter Of A Title Reveal At CinemaCon
If you were looking for a logline or new stills released for Nickelodeon and Paramount’s animated movie from Avatar Studios continuing the story of Avatar Aang and his friends from the beloved 2005-2008 Nicktoon Avatar: The Last Airbender, you’re out of luck. However, what Paramount did bring to
