Tag: Soul
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2024 Oscars: Best Animated Feature Predictions
Nominations voting is from January 11–16, 2024, with official Oscar nominations announced on January 23, 2024. Final voting is February 22–27, 2024. And finally, the 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10, and air live on ABC at 8 p.m. Et/ 5 p.m. Pt. We update predictions through awards season, so keep…
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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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Ralph Eggleston, Pixar Animator Behind ‘For the Birds’ and ‘Toy Story,’ Dies at 56
Ralph Eggleston, an Academy Award-winning animator, art director and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios, died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old.Eggleston won the animated short film Oscar for writing and directing the 2001 Pixar film “For the Birds.”Pixar tweeted a tribute to him, saying, “Pixar and…
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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…
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The Morning Watch: Pixar’s Soul Storyboard Comparison, Behind The Action Of Cobra Kai Season 4 & More
(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.)In this edition, see how the storyboards for Pixar’s existential comedy “Soul”…
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‘Monsters at Work’ Review: Disney+ Hires Pixar’s Monsters for Charming Office Comedy Series
Though a direct sequel to the Pixar movies that preceded it, “Monsters at Work” isn’t exactly the TV series you may expect. For one, it’s not a Pixar production. Yes, the Disney+ comedy is inspired by the world Pixar first unveiled in 2001, and, overseen by Disney Television Animation, it remains an in-house project; it’s…
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‘The Boss Baby: Family Business’: DreamWorks Celebrates Childhood Imagination with Retro 2D Look
Ever since the Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” there’s been an uptick in experimenting with more graphic 2D animation styles, including Oscar winner “Soul,” and this season’s contenders “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” and “Luca.” You can add “The Boss Baby: Family Business” (opening theatrically and streaming on Peacock Independence weekend), as DreamWorks leans more…
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China Box Office: Disney’s ‘Cruella’ Struts to $1.8 Million Opening Day
Disney’s “Cruella” strut into China on Sunday with a $1.78 million opening day, coming in sixth in a slow weekend behind reigning box office champ “F9,” according to data from Maoyan.Day one China figures for “Cruella” were less than a fourth of the $7.7 million the film grossed on its May 28 opening day in…
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Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ Coming to Theaters and Disney Plus Premier Access in July
“Jungle Cruise,” a big-budget family adventure starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, will premiere simultaneously in theaters and on Disney Plus on July 30.The film will be available to rent on Disney Plus Premier Access. Disney used a similar strategy with “Mulan” and “Raya and the Last Dragon” and plans to debut upcoming films such…