Toy company Mattel and production company 2Dux will be teaming up on a feature film based on the Thomas & Friends franchise — better known to many audiences as “Thomas the Tank Engine” — with World ...

World War Z director Marc Forster will partner with Mattel Films to helm and produce a project based on the 75-year-old children's property about Thomas the Tank Engine and his locomotive friends ...

The 35-millimeter film flickers. An arm descending from the blue sky holds a clapboard over a quaint railway station, where custom-made train models with expressive human faces wait for action. The ...

As a child, the Rev. Wilbert Awdry would imagine that the nearby steam engines he could hear were talking to each other. When he became a father himself, he used that memory to create stories to tell ...

All change! “Thomas & Friends” will be part of Nick Jr.’s timetable from March when the Mattel animated series moves from its longtime home on PBS to the preschool net, Variety has learned.

When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, the fictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas the Tank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends ...