Tag: Luca
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‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ Review: ‘Turning Red’ Takes to the Seas for Familiar Monster Adventure
Audiences might bemoan the lack of original thinking at the movies these days — all those sequels, remakes, and reboots! — but even new ideas can feel suddenly played out when faced with the horrifying specter of parallel thinking. Consider everything from “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon” to “Dante’s Peak” and “Volcano,” “Capote” and “Infamous” to…
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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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How The Good Dinosaur Became Pixar’s First Bona Fide Box Office Flop
The last few years of Pixar have been rather dispiriting. I don’t mean this in terms of quality. Far from it. “Soul,” “Turning Red,” and “Luca” have ranged from good to great, continuing to show a studio brimming with imagination as newer voices come into the mix. When I say they have been dispiriting, I…
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Annecy US-based partner Animation Is Film sets 2022 dates
Animation Is Film (Aif) and its partner Annecy International Animation Film Festival have announced the fifth edition of the US-based festival set for October 21-23.Aif celebrates global animation and will take place at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. Last year the event presented new features from Asia, Europe, South America, and North America.2021…
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‘Lightyear’ Review: Pixar’s Lifeless Return to Theaters Is a Great Excuse to Stay Home
“Lightyear” is the first movie that Pixar has released in theaters since the start of the pandemic, a return to normal that would feel more exciting if “Lightyear” wasn’t also the first Pixar movie since the start of the pandemic that feels like it only belongs on Disney Plus. Bursting onto the big screen with…
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‘The Bad Guys’: DreamWorks Embraces the Latest 2D Trend for Its CG Heist Comedy
The influence of “Into the Spider-Verse” continues to infiltrate the Hollywood mainstream, with DreamWorks’ latest heist comedy, “The Bad Guys,” following in the footsteps of “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” “Luca,” and “Turning Red” to subvert CG animation with a handmade, illustrated look. First-time feature director Pierre Perifel definitely wanted to break through the “boring”…
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‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’ Leads 49th Annie Awards with Eight Wins; ‘Flee’ Takes Indie Prize
Sony Animation/Netflix’s innovative, 2D-inspired “The Mitchells vs. The Machines” led the 49th annual Annie Awards Saturday with eight wins, including best animated feature, direction and writing, character design, production design, editorial, FX, and voice acting (Abbie Jacobson as Katie). Asifa-Hollywood’s animation version of the Oscars was held virtually at UCLA’s Royce Hall for the second…
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Oscar-Nominated Animation Filmmakers and VFX Artisans to Speak in Free Online View Conference Panels
The View Conference, in partnership with Ogr, presents a full slate of free virtual PreVIEW panels in March featuring an array of Oscar nominees.First, on Friday, March 4, at 10 a.m. Pt, will be a talk with the filmmakers behind the five nominees for animated feature. Speakers are Byron Howard, Jared Bush and Charise Castro…
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Oscars 2022: Best Animated Feature Predictions
Updated: February 8: The Oscar nominations are out and Disney dominated with “Encanto” and “Raya and the Last Dragon,” and Pixar’s “Luca.” This marks the first time that Disney has had two in contention since 2016 and the first time it’s had three since 2012. The other two slots were taken by Sony/Netflix’s “The Mitchells…
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How Turning Red Blends Pixar’s Iconic Animation Style With Anime
Who says Pixar doesn’t make anything original anymore? The innovative and consistently successful animation studio may have released a number of sequels in relatively short order, but that stubborn narrative completely ignores original hits in recent years such as “Coco,” “Onward,” “Soul,” and “Luca” … the latter three films coming within the last two years…