Tag: Soul
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‘The Boys,’ ‘Soul,’ ‘Palm Springs’ Top Inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards Winners List
“The Boys,” “Soul” and “Palm Springs” emerged as the big winners from the inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards.Amazon Prime Video’s superhero-vigilante drama “The Boys” nabbed the most wins of any title, with four: superhero series, actor in a superhero series for Antony Starr, actress in a superhero series for Aya Cash and villain in a…
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With Liam Neeson and ‘The Croods: A New Age,’ Home Viewing Thrives
High-priced titles dominated the charts on New Year’s week with “The Croods: The New Age” leading the way. Sharing the glory was Liam Neeson: “Honest Thief,” a former theatrical/PVOD title, now thrives at $4.99, while Neeson’s 2011 Warner Bros. thriller “Unknown” is currently #1 at Netflix.The thriving home-viewing market also includes “Soul” (Disney+ only) and…
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Water Cooler: Wonder Woman 1984, Tenet, His House, Hunter Hunter, Soul, Flight Attendant, Sylvie’s Love, Trial of the Chicago 7, Death to 2020 & More
On the December 30, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:…
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Box Office: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Debuts to Robust (for a Pandemic) $16.7 Million
Christmas is often one of the most popular times of year to gather the family and watch a new movie, and this holiday was no different. The biggest distinction, however, is that the season’s biggest releases — “Wonder Woman 1984” and “Soul” — battled for streaming service subscribers rather than box office dollars.“Wonder Woman 1984,”…
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Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Gets Its Heart From Two Ex-Journo Screenwriters
Is journalism the best training ground for screenwriting? Two-thirds of the writers of Pixar’s “Soul” have backgrounds as reporters: Mike Jones and Kemp Powers.They wrote “Soul” with director Pete Docter; Powers is also co-director of the film, which debuts Dec. 25 on Disney Plus and seems a likely contender for Oscars and other film awards.Jones…
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Jamie Foxx on Voicing Disney-Pixar’s First Black Lead in ‘Soul’ and Being Unapologetically Black in Hollywood
There are few entertainers like Jamie Foxx; he’s a multihyphenate superstar with the trophy case to back it up. Though Foxx has the range and a backlog of dramatic, comedic and generally off-the wall characters to pull from, when it came to voicing Joe Gardner in Disney-Pixar’s “Soul,” the film’s creative team just wanted the…
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New Movies to Watch This Week: ‘Wonder Woman 1984,’ ‘Soul,’ ‘Sylvie’s Love’
For American audiences, who’ve been deprived of a traditional release slate while the country copes with the Covid-19 pandemic, Christmas Day brings the closest thing to a blockbuster weekend that 2020 has seen so far — including the delayed releases of a few films originally intended for earlier in the year.Two of the week’s highest…
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‘Nomadland’ Scores Seven Nominations From Chicago Film Critics Association
Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” has earned seven nominations for 2020 honors from the Chicago Film Critics Association, followed by six each for Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow” and Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.”David Fincher’s “Mank” and Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” took five nominations each. With 28 nominations, Netflix is…
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‘Wolfwalkers’ Directors’ Long Run To Finish An Irish Folklore Trifecta [Interview]
There are two massively acclaimed animated feature films arriving in viewers’ homes this month. One of them, Pixar’s “Soul,” premieres on Disney+ on Christmas Day. The other, Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s “Wolfwalkers,” is in select theaters now and debuting on Apple TV+ on Friday. You can’t go wrong with either picture, but the former…
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‘Soul,’ ‘Monster Hunter’ Set December Release Dates in China Cinemas
Pixar’s “Soul” and video game adaptation “Monster Hunter” are set to hit the big screen in China in December.The hotly anticipated “Soul” may have decided to skip cinemas in the Covid-19-ravaged U.S. for Disney Plus, but it will screen in Chinese theaters from Christmas Day, Dec. 25. Disney currently has no plans to launch its…