Tag: Over the Moon
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Janet Yang Re-Elected as Film Academy President
Janet Yang has been re-elected as president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Her second-term re-election was made by the Academy’s board of governors who additionally elected a number of officer positions for 2023-2024.Yang is an Emmy-winning producer with credits on projects including “The Joy Luck Club,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt,”…
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Janet Yang re-elected as US Academy president
The producer also begins her fifth year as an Ampas governor-at-large.Producer Janet Yang has been elected to a second term as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) by the US organisation’s board of governors.Yang, first elected Ampas president this time last year, is also beginning her fifth year as a…
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Nyaff sets ‘The Monkey King’ as closing film in first collaboration with Netflix
Producer Pellin Chou set to attend special screening.Netflix animation The Monkey King has been set as the closing film of the 22nd New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), marking the first time the festival has partnered with the streaming giant.The special screening will take place on July 30, more than two weeks before the August…
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Producer Janet Yang Was Just Elected President Of The Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its new president today, and the honor goes to Emmy-winning producer Janet Yang. Yang was elected by the Oscar voting organization’s Board of Governors, and the exec behind movies like “The Joy Luck Club” and “Over the Moon” is the third woman and second person…
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Oscars 2021: Best Original Song Predictions
The music branch of the Academy often leans into pop stars in this category, partly because the members want to see stars like last year’s winner, Elton John for “Rocketman,” sing their original songs on the Oscar stage. But that may not be possible in this pandemic year. Voters also go for hit songs from…
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‘Wolfwalkers’ Trailer: Is The ‘Secrets Of Kells’ Followup Another Animated Oscar Player?
We’ve seen the Best Picture race slowly come into view thanks to a pandemic delayed deadline, but other categories are also coming into play. Best Animated Feature film already has a number of contenders that found audiences on PVOD with “Onward,” “Trolls World Tour” and “The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run” while “Over the…
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‘Over the Moon’ Trailer: Netflix’s Animated Musical, Directed by a Disney Legend, Reimagines a Chinese Legend
Inspired by the Chinese tale of the Moon Goddess, Over the Moon reimagines a Chinese legend with the help of a Disney legend. Disney Legend and Oscar winner Glean Keane directs Over the Moon, Netflix’s first animated musical film, animated by DreamWorks’ Pearl Studios and featuring an all-Asian cast including Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ken…
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How Netflix’s Animated ‘Over the Moon’ Bridges Folklore and Science in Anthemic Theme Song (Exclusive)
A trio of songwriters — Christopher Curtis, Helen Park and Marjorie Duffield — created the tunes at the heart of animated musical “Over the Moon,” the story of a young girl with a passion for science who seeks to prove the existence of the legendary Moon Goddess in the tales her recently departed mom would…
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‘Over the Moon’ Trailer: Netflix Gets Animated Over the Chinese Moon Goddess Legend
Netflix dropped the first trailer Tuesday for its upcoming animated feature, “Over the Moon” (coming in the fall), a wondrous update of the Chinese Moon Goddess fable, directed by former Disney legend and Oscar winner Glen Keane (“Dear Basketball”). The co-production with Pearl Studio (“Abominable”) was animated at Sony Pictures Imageworks, with Oscar winner John…
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Netflix Drops Surprise Annecy Presentation, Trailer for Glen Keane’s ‘Over the Moon’
In a previously-unannounced presentation posted on the Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival’s digital platform on Tuesday morning, Netflix announced key cast, new images, updated plot points and shared an out-of-this-world trailer for the platform’s upcoming musical 3D feature “Over the Moon” from legendary animator and Oscar-winning filmmaker Glen Keane.Annecy also announced a live Q&a with…