About Cal & Bob
Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen are filmmakers who write, direct and produce animated feature films. To date, their movies have grossed over $560 million dollars at the box office.
They’re best known for turning the beloved TV series PAW Patrol into a hit theatrical feature film franchise for Paramount, Nickelodeon, and Spin Master. The third movie in the trilogy, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie is coming to theaters around the world in summer 2026.
The PAW Patrol movies have been incredibly successful critically, theatrically and on subsequent streaming platforms. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023) was the #1 film at the worldwide box office on its opening weekend. PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) has been in the Netflix Global Top 10 for 17 weeks, with hundreds of millions of views on streaming.
Cal and Bob also wrote and executive produced Son of Bigfoot, an original animated feature film released by Studiocanal and nWave Pictures. The sequel, Bigfoot Family was released on Netflix in February 2021, and quickly became the #1 movie in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand on its first week of release.
Their previous animated features include The Nut Job 2 (2017) and Escape From Planet Earth (2013).
Cal came to writing and directing features with a strong background in storytelling. In his years as a story artist he was responsible for visualizing and staging some of the most memorable sequences in the hit animated films Minions, Despicable Me, Ice Age: Continental Drift, and Horton Hears a Who!.
Bob is a member of the Producers Guild of America, and came to features through writing and producing animation, comedy/variety television, and high-end CG commercials.