Tag: Strange World
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Why Awards Voters Shouldn’t Dismiss ‘Bones and All,’ ‘Devotion’ and ‘Strange World’ Despite Slow Box Office Starts
The box office woes are far from the whole story about the three awards-worthy films that opened or expanded over Thanksgiving weekend – MGM/Uar’s “Bones and All,” Sony Pictures’ “Devotion” and Walt Disney’s “Strange World.” Despite low financial returns, the studios are forging ahead in their bids for Academy Awards attention, as they should.The cannibal…
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Jake Gyllenhaal Seems to Forget Dennis Quaid Played His Dad in ‘Day After Tomorrow’
Disney’s latest animated adventure “Strange World” brings together Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal as father and son. But canny viewers of Roland Emmerich’s 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” will recall that Quaid and Gyllenhaal played father and son before, even while not sharing much screen time — which is why you’d be forgiven…
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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…
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Disney to Dominate Thanksgiving Box Office With ‘Strange World’ and ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
Hollywood has come to expect a few things around Thanksgiving: a hearty turkey dinner, plenty of family time… and a Disney movie to rule the box office. In keeping with tradition, the Magic Kingdom is poised to stuff the competition over the busy holiday weekend as “Strange World,” an animated adventure about a family of…
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How to Watch Strange World
Though the animation titan that is the Walt Disney Company has mostly been sticking to its roots with infectiously fun musicals such as Encanto (2021) and Frozen II (2019), the studio has also been exploring animated expeditions into more adventurous stories. Recently, there have been a wide variety of these non-musical adventures, including hit films…
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Strange World’s Ethan Clade Will Make History For Disney Animation Studios As Their First Openly Gay Protagonist
This Thanksgiving, Disney’s “Strange World” will hit theaters. The animated film is set in a fictional land surrounded by mountains that are uncrossable. Well, that’s what everyone but a few enterprising people think. It is life’s mission for Jaeger Clade (voice of Dennis Quaid) to find out what’s on the other side. His son Searcher…
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‘Strange World’ Cast and Creators on the Disney Film’s Biracial, LGBTQ Character: ‘You Don’t Have to Normalize Normal. It Just Is’
While “Strange World” explores a fantastical environment full of mysterious creatures and flora, including flying fish and walking rock columns, the action-adventure film also includes a first for Walt Disney Animation Studios: a gay teen romance.The animated feature introduces viewers to Ethan Clade, a biracial, openly gay teenager who gets completely tongue-tied when he’s near…
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Strange World Trailer: A Dazzling and Exciting Adventure Awaits
D23 brought a lot of fun for attendees, including news surrounding some of the most talked about titles making their way into theaters over the next few years. From Marvel’s Phase 5 to Peter Pan & Wendy, those behind the event continued to hit audiences with the information they’d been patiently waiting for. One of…
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What Happened to the Guy Who Narrated Trailers?
For years, there was an unmistakable fixture in movie trailers. No matter what genre the film inhabited, its trailer was bound to be accompanied by a voice-over. Typically done by a male voice actor with a deep gravelly voice, these voice-overs were an easy way to immediately suggest importance and gravitas to whatever motion picture…
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Is ‘Marcel the Shell’ Animated Enough for the Oscars?
.A24’s acclaimed stop-motion/live-action hybrid “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” could be the wild card in the animated feature Oscar race — going up against such early favorites as Pixar’s “Turning Red,” Disney’s “Strange World,” and Netflix’s two stop-motion behemoths: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” and Henry Selick’s “Wendell & Wild” (the latter being the lone…