Author and illustrator Dav Pilkey with his creation, Dog Man — first a book and now a major motion picture. Ilya S. Savenok This after already raking in $36 million in its opening week.

In families with children, there was some excitement about the release of the new animated feature-film “Dog Man.” One heard the buzz for about two weeks. The character Dog Man ...

Written and directed by Peter Hastings — developer and executive producer of “The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants” — the film adapts storylines from the first three “Dog Man” books while capturing ...