Universal is continuing to expand its Monsters universe in interesting ways by bringing in Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley to direct the family-friendly Little Monsters. To be clear, this is an original film, and not a reboot of the Howie Mandel / Fred Savage movie, which is a mistake I absolutely made. [caption id="attachment_787696" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Disney/Pixar[/caption] As reported by THR, the movie will be a live-action hybrid featuring characters from the entire history of Universal’s monster movies, based on designs by concept artist Crash McCreery. McCreery has worked on …

Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley has lined up another project. And this time, it’s live action. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Cooley has signed a deal to make Malamander for Sony Pictures. The project is based on a 2019 novel by British writer and illustrator Thomas Taylor, and according to the report “is set in Eerie-on-Sea, a seaside town filled with oddball characters and mysteries as murky as its winter fog.” The story follows a young boy named Herbert Lemon, who teams up with a young girl named Violet Parma, to look for the parents …

Fresh off winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley has been set to direct an animated Transformers prequel for Paramount and Hasbro’s entertainment studio eOne. The project was first revealed in September 2015, when Paramount tapped Ant-Man and the Wasp scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari to write a script that would function as an origin story set on Cybertron, home of both the Autobots and the Decepticons. The film is said to focus on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron, and it will be considered separate from the live-action …

Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley and producer Mark Nielsen celebrate the home release by diving deeper into the journey from Andy's room to Bonnie's.