Tag: Frozen
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The ‘South Park’ Guys Made a Live-Action Sitcom About George W. Bush!?
While they will always be known as “the South Park guys,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone have more to their name than that. Their film Team America: World Police has cemented its legacy as the funniest marionette action movie/post-911 geopolitical commentary, with an unforgettable anthem. They teamed with Frozen and Coco songwriter Robert Lopez to…
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‘It’s Ok that life is hard’: Jennifer Lee, the bullied Cinderella fan who rose to billion-dollar boss at Disney
As co-writer and director of Frozen, she changed cinema forever. Now Lee is in charge of Disney animation – and creating a new blockbuster, Wish, about a dodgy king’s whistleblowing apprenticeForty years ago, Jennifer Lee was miserable in middle school. Her parents had got divorced and she had moved to Rhode Island with her mother…
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‘Frozen 3’: Jennifer Lee Not Returning to Direct
After shepherding both Frozen and Frozen 2 to massive success for Disney, Jennifer Lee will “let it go” to someone else. The Wrap spoke with Lee at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival where she revealed that she will not be at the helm of Frozen 3 which Disney announced during its Q1 earnings…
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‘Nimona’ Review: Pink Hair, Punk Spirit and a Formula-Thrashing Story Set This Rebel Toon Apart
Once upon a time, animated movies made it easy to tell the heroes apart from the villains. Now, the trend is for princesses to remain happily unmarried (“Frozen”), for kids to know better than their elders (“Encanto”) and for monsters to be revealed as misunderstood allies (“Luca”). For a while, those twists on the Disney…
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Bell, & Betty White Did a Revenge Comedy?
The cast is by far the best part of the forgotten 2010s comedy, You Again. Kristen Bell stars, a few short years before she would be in the megahit Frozen. Alongside her we get genre icons, Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver, who haven’t shared the screen before and they haven’t since. No, it isn’t…
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Even Mundane Settings Are Gorgeous To Behold In Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
One of the most astonishing things about “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is that the filmmakers, through some sort of miraculous, creative happenstance, remembered that animation is an unlimited medium. There is a tendency among certain well-regarded animation studios (cough Disney cough), to push its animation style and character designs over to a very specific place.…
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‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Sets Box Office Record in Japan, Underlining Hollywood Recovery
After opening on April 28 in Japan, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has hit the JPY10 billion ($71 million) milestone in just 31 days – the quickest ever by a non-Japanese animation in the Japanese market.In the latest three-day period from May 28 to 28, the film earned JPY632 million ($4.5 million), bringing its cumulative…
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Animated Features 2023 Preview: From ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ to Miyazaki’s ‘How Do You Live?’ Farewell
The year in animation will be marked by three high-profile sequels — Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” Aardman’s “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” and DreamWorks’ “Trolls Band Together” — Pixar’s first rom-com, the effects-driven “Elemental,” Disney’s latest animated musical, “Wish,” from the Oscar-winning “Frozen” team, and the final film from Studio Ghibli’s anime legend…
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Jonathan Groff Sang His Frozen 2 Song On The Knock At The Cabin Set Because Of Course He Did
As an actor, Jonathan Groff has led something of a double life. Netflix viewers may know him as the star of David Fincher’s “Mindhunter,” where he played an FBI behavioral scientist interviewing serial killers like Charles Manson. In “The Matrix Resurrections,” Groff took over from Hugo Weaving as the villainous Agent Smith, earning himself the…
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For Disney Animation, Thanksgiving Weekend Is Now a Cry for Help
This Thanksgiving continues Disney’s multiplex tradition of a major animated release with today’s release of “Strange World,” which joins the ranks of “Encanto,” “Frozen” and its sequel, “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” “Coco,” and “Moana.” Unlike those titles, “Strange World” probably won’t debut at #1.Granted, the #1 money will go to the same place with Disney’s…