Tag: Animation
Disney Remaking Bambi; Sarah Polley May Direct
Deadline reports that Sarah Polley is in talks to direct a live-action remake of Bambi for Disney. Polley is known for writing Women Talking (for which she won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar), Take This Waltz, and Away From Her. The remake is said to feature music from Kacey Musgraves Bambi is...
Read MoreElio Teaser Makes Contact
Today, Disney and Pixar dropped the first teaser for Elio, an original story coming from Pixar in 2024. Elio (Yonas Kibreab) is the young son of a government agent (America Ferrera) trying to handle contact with aliens. The messengers misinterpret a phone message from Elio, taking him for the leader...
Read MoreRUMOR: Is The Legend of Zelda the Next Nintendo Animated Movie?
As rumors go, this one sounds a hell of a lot more likely than Disney selling Star Wars back to George Lucas. On The Hot Mic, Jeff Sneider revealed that “a big source” told him that Universal is “closing a, quote, ‘big deal’ with the Nintendo corporation” to make a movie based on The Leg...
Read MoreStudio Ghibli Will Not Promote How Do You Live
Studio Ghibli has revealed that it will not release a poster, trailer, or any other promotional materials ahead of How Do You Live? premiering in Japan on July 14th. The movie is a loose adaptation of Japanese author Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 novel How Do You Live? International release dates...
Read MorePixar Layoffs Include Lightyear Director
The latest round of Disney layoffs targeted Pixar employees. The most prominent names eliminated seem to revolve around Lightyear, including the film’s director, Angus MacLane, and producer, Galyn Susman. Both have been with the company for decades, and Susman is credited with saving Toy Stor...
Read MoreREVIEW: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Into the Spider-Verse was one of the biggest pleasant surprises of the past few years. I’ve liked some movies from Sony Pictures Animation, like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Lego Movie. But Spider-Verse single-handedly initiated a paradigm shift in the landscape of American animation....
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