Tag: Cinderella
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Vietnam’s Skyline Media Launching Five Titles at Busan Market
Vietnam-based sales agent Skyline Media has unveiled five new titles for sales and distribution at the Acfn market that accompanies the Busan International Film Festival. They range from horror films to gay rom com series.“The Soul Reaper” is adapted from director-producer Thao Trang’s best-selling horror novel “Lunar New Year in Hell Village” (Tet O Lang…
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‘Sleeping Beauty’s Protagonist Actually Isn’t Who You’d Expect
Disney’s classics have been well-loved for years, but as Disney princesses continue to change over time and become more active characters in their own films, discussion surrounding princesses in earlier films has become more critical. From Snow White naively taking a bite of a suspicious apple to Cinderella’s passivity in waiting to be rescued, the…
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Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Emerald Fennell to Deliver Screen Talks at BFI London Film Festival
Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig and Emerald Fennell are among the filmmakers delivering screen talks at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, alongside Andrew Haigh, Lulu Wang and Kitty Green.Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, is a headline gala at the festival. He will be in conversation…
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10 Animated Disney Classics That Deserve a 4K Restoration
In commemoration of the company’s 100th anniversary, Walt Disney Animation recently debuted a newly restored 4K presentation of 1950s Cinderella on Disney+, with a restoration of the studio’s debut feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs also coming later this Fall. Headlined by art director Michael Giaimo and legendary animator Eric Goldberg, both new editions…
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How My Big Fat Greek Wedding Became The Biggest Rom-Com Ever At The Box Office
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)There are some Cinderella stories in the history of the box office. We can look at something like the ultra-low-budget “Skinamarink” earlier this year, which made more than…
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The Disney Vault Is a Stroke of Maniacal Genius
Walt Disney Animation’s year-long centennial celebration is allowing fans the world over to share their favorite moments and memories from the studio’s century-spanning lineage of animated classics. The studio’s legendary output of spellbinding adventures, romantic fairy tales and showstopping musicals have touched countless audiences worldwide and transcended age gaps, becoming a shared cinematic tradition that…
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10 Best Animated Princess Movies Not from Disney
Disney has secured itself throughout animation history as being at the forefront of princess and princess-related stories, with some of the most impactful and memorable stories of a generation being those of Disney princesses. From all-time animated classics like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty to more modern stories such as Frozen and Moana, Disney has always…
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Disney’s Last 2D Animated Movie Isn’t the One You’re Thinking Of
When referring to Walt Disney Animation Studio’s long filmography, most point to 2009’s The Princess and the Frog as the company’s final movie produced in its signature 2D animated style. The New Orleans-set princess musical certainly follows in the aesthetic and narrative footsteps of Snow White, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and other classic Disney movies,…
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Yes, ‘The Little Mermaid’s Songs Needed an Update in the Live-Action Movie
The Little Mermaid is the latest in line of the Disney live-action remakes, directed by Rob Marshall. Following in the likes of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Cinderella. With this comes the expected deeper exploration of the classic stories we know and love, as well as updating them for modern audiences. The original The…
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‘The Bear’ Season 2: This Detail Is Foreshadowing Future Woes
The Bear is a Cinderella story of chefs turning a struggling sandwich shop into a Michelin-star restaurant. Because the post-covid world we are being shown is an unkind one to the hospitality industry. The crew at The Bear is stumbling week after week to make the restaurant what the head chefs, Carmen “Carmy” (Jeremy Allen…