There are many more animated children’s films to be made based on dystopian source material.

On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a kids’ movie, Alexandra Petri imagines other dystopian source material for family flicks. “Andy Serkis’s Maus: Talking mice? Great. Talking mice and

Directed by Andy Serkis, this baffling adaptation of the revolutionary fable by George Orwell is just... woof. (No idea how the script was written by the dude who made "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," either.)

Distributed by the studio behind "Sound of Freedom," this take on George Orwell's classic is uniquely insidious.

Director Andy Serkis tells IndieWire how early designs for the animals in his film were more "unforgiving and brutal... But we wanted to reach out to a younger audience."

Last year, nearly 130 million pigs were raised for meat in the US, but they didn’t come out of nowhere; they had parents. Or as pork producers call them, “breeder pigs.”  Since the 1970s, producers have been keeping most of the breeding females — known as sow…