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Economic Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
Dog Man: When will animated film release online? Here's streaming release date, plot, where to watch and characters
Streaming Release Date Book Series Adaptation Plot and Characters Live Events Box Office Success and Production Team FAQs (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Peacock has confirmed the exclusive release of Dog Man, the animated film from DreamWorks, on May 30. The movie is based on the popular book series by Dav made the announcement on Wednesday morning. The streaming platform will release Dog Man exclusively on May 30. The film features voice performances by Pete Davidson, Lil Rel Howery and animated movie is adapted from Dav Pilkey's bestselling book series. Pilkey is known for creating Captain Underpants. The story begins with a loyal police dog and his human officer. They both suffer injuries during duty. A strange surgery merges them into one being. This leads to the creation of Dog Man tries to adjust to his new identity. He wants to gain approval from his boss, voiced by Lil Rel Howery. The main enemy is Petey the Cat, voiced by Pete Davidson. Petey wants to clone himself to increase his evil power. A surprise twist happens when the cloned kitten bonds with Dog Man. This brings a new message about family and Man was released in theaters in January. It made over $143 million worldwide. Peter Hastings wrote and directed the film. He has worked on projects like The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants and Pinky and the Brain. He also voices the lead character. The cast includes Isla Fisher, Lucas Hopkins Calderon and Ricky Gervais. Karen Foster produced the film. Dav Pilkey is listed as executive Hastings, the director of the movie, provides the voice for the character Dog Man tells the story of a police dog fused with a human officer, who must stop a villain and learns the value of family.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Dog Man: When will animated film release online? Here's streaming release date, plot, where to watch and characters
Peacock will begin streaming the animated film Dog Man on May 30. Based on Dav Pilkey's book series, the film follows a police dog and officer turned into one being. Dog Man faces off against a villain while discovering unexpected friendship and the meaning of family. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Streaming Release Date Book Series Adaptation Plot and Characters Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Box Office Success and Production Team FAQs Peacock has confirmed the exclusive release of Dog Man, the animated film from DreamWorks, on May 30. The movie is based on the popular book series by Dav made the announcement on Wednesday morning. The streaming platform will release Dog Man exclusively on May 30. The film features voice performances by Pete Davidson, Lil Rel Howery and animated movie is adapted from Dav Pilkey's bestselling book series. Pilkey is known for creating Captain Underpants. The story begins with a loyal police dog and his human officer. They both suffer injuries during duty. A strange surgery merges them into one being. This leads to the creation of Dog Man tries to adjust to his new identity. He wants to gain approval from his boss, voiced by Lil Rel Howery. The main enemy is Petey the Cat, voiced by Pete Davidson. Petey wants to clone himself to increase his evil power. A surprise twist happens when the cloned kitten bonds with Dog Man. This brings a new message about family and Man was released in theaters in January. It made over $143 million worldwide. Peter Hastings wrote and directed the film. He has worked on projects like The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants and Pinky and the Brain. He also voices the lead character. The cast includes Isla Fisher, Lucas Hopkins Calderon and Ricky Gervais. Karen Foster produced the film. Dav Pilkey is listed as executive Hastings, the director of the movie, provides the voice for the character Dog Man tells the story of a police dog fused with a human officer, who must stop a villain and learns the value of family.
Chicago Tribune
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Portage second-grader sets school record for reading 2 million words in a year
Philip Mulroe, 8, has a goal of reading 3 million words by the end of third grade, starting this summer. It follows up his successful goals of reading 1 million words as a first-grader and 2 million as a second-grader at Kyle Elementary School in Portage. Portage Township School Corp. honored Philip on Facebook earlier this month, saying he broke the all-time record at Kyle, becoming the first second-grader to read over 2 million words in a single school year. In fact, he was at 2,343,556 words as of Thursday, as measured by tests given at the school for reading comprehension for the books he's read. Each test, specific to a book, has the number of words in that book. Philip reads mostly fiction and humorous books, he said, although he's read others. He comes from a long line of readers. There's a video of him with his great-grandmother as he's learning to read. His grandmother was an avid reader. His mother, Kristin Mulroe, said she reads at least a book a week. 'I've always been a big reader, even as a kid,' she said. His father, Phil, is a social studies teacher at Portage High School and the head boys golf coach. As might be expected, Phil enjoys reading golf newsletters. He also enjoys books by Admiral William H. McRaven, including 'Make Your Bed,' which the Bears front office staff was reading last summer. As Phil works toward a master's degree in political science at Indiana University, he's reading books related to that topic as well. Kristin read to her son every night when he was little, before he learned to read. When he was a preschooler, she read Captain Underpants books to him. As he learned to read, they would alternate chapters. 'I really do the Kindle book because it's easier to read ebooks,' she said. A Kindle is easier to carry than a stack of books while traveling. Kristin uses Good Reads to keep track of what she's read. Her son uses stays up late, reading in bed. That's when he does most of his reading. 'The power went out last week, and I see him in there with a flashlight, reading,' Kristin said. Philip prefers physical books. He's an avid library user, going through many of the books at his school library, including all but two of the biographies in the series he read. He goes to the public library, too, and his mother signed him up for a book subscription, receiving five books a month. 'We found some new series that way,' Kristin said. Next up is the Harry Potter series, Philip said. 'I've never seen the movies, either,' Kristin said, so she's looking forward to that series as well. This late in the school year, Philip isn't able to borrow books from the school library after borrowing about a book a day the rest of the year. Now he's reading on his school Chromebook. Philip can read at a middle school level, Kristin said. His reading comprehension is impressive. 'All the books I read over summer last year, I got 100% on all the quizzes,' Philip said, when school started last August. Reading isn't Philip's only activity. He enjoys soccer and basketball, too. 'I honestly don't read all that much. I just read long, and I read fast,' he said.
Straits Times
12-05-2025
- General
- Straits Times
Why it's important to read aloud to your kids – even after they can read themselves
Reading together can encourage closeness between children and parents, as well as shared knowledge and laughs. PHOTO: ST FILE Why it's important to read aloud to your kids – even after they can read themselves Reading aloud to your children is a parental superpower – you can continue to build where the school learning stops. Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children. Perhaps it involves a nightly progression through the Percy Jackson series or the next Captain Underpants book. Or maybe there's a request to have Room On The Broom again (and again). But for some households, reading aloud is not a regular activity. A recent British report by publisher Harper Collins found many parents are not reading to their kids. Fewer than half (41 per cent) of zero to four-year-olds are read to frequently. More than 20 per cent of parents surveyed agreed reading is 'more a subject to learn than a fun thing to do'. The report also found that some parents stop reading to their children once they can read by themselves. As The Guardian reported, some parents assume 'it will make (their child) lazy and less likely to read independently'. Here's why it's important to read to your children – even after they have learnt to read. What's involved in reading skills? Research on reading skills suggests there are two main types of skills involved in learning to read. Constrained skills are skills that once we learn, we keep. For example, once we learn the alphabet, we don't have to keep learning it. It's like riding a bike. Unconstrained skills are skills we continue to learn throughout life. For example, vocabulary, reading fluency (how quickly and smoothly you read) and reading comprehension. Even as adults, we continue to learn new word and language forms. We know reading to infants and younger children can build early language skills, such as the sounds of words and the alphabet. Reading to older children is a simple way to build unconstrained skills. How reading aloud helps The books we read aloud at bedtime to young readers tend to be those they can't read themselves. So it introduces more complex ideas, words, and sentence patterns. This is why reading aloud to your children is a parental superpower – you can continue to build where the school learning stops. Reading together can also encourage closeness between children and parents, as well as shared knowledge and laughs. When you are reading to your child, they have your full attention, which also makes the time special. What should you be reading? Reading aloud doesn't necessarily have to involve multiple chapters of a book. Research suggests what matters is that it's something you are both interested in and enjoying. You could read to your child on a device, or you could even tell a traditional tale without a book. You could read poetry, news articles or magazine articles about a favourite football team or player – these can all build unconstrained literacy skills. Even re-reading a beloved picture book from younger years can build fluency and focus on direct speech in text (especially when the reader does 'funny' voices). How often should you read to your child? Family life is busy and parents often have many commitments. So there are no rules, other than to make it fun. Don't be put off by 'how much you have to do' – a few minutes of engaged reading time together is better than none at all. You could read to your child when you yourself are reading something and want to share it. If it's too hard to read to your child every night, do it every weekend night or make another time during the week. Or ask a grandparent or older sibling to help. And there is no set age to stop – if you like, keep reading to your kids until they leave home! Robyn Cox is professor of literacy education at the University of Tasmania, in Australia. This article was first published in The Conversation. Get the ST Smart Parenting newsletter for expert advice. Visit the microsite for more
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dog Man will battle a cyborg fish in 'Dog Man: The Musical' this winter
The hit book series Dog Man is coming to the stage in the Twin Cities. Hennepin Arts will bring "Dog Man: The Musical" to the Pantages Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis this December, dropping Dav Pilkey's half-dog, half-man into the real world. The show from TheaterWorksUSA, which premiered in 2019, will have five shows over two days on Dec. 6 and 7, about a year after the first film based on the series arrived in theaters. Like the film released in January — also based on the book series by the author of Captain Underpants — the musical sees Dog Man attempting to save his city from Flippy the Cyborg Fish and his army of sentient buildings. At the same time, he's contending with Petey, the evil cat, who may or may not have to join forces with Dog Man. Tickets for the five-show run at Pantages will go on sale Friday, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m.
