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EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran and Yara Shahidi are leading a fictional adventure podcast for tweens. The Star Wars actor, who voiced Raya in Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon, and the Grown-ish star will host Cultureverse, a 12-part series produced by Studio Ochenta for TRAX for public media organization PRX. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran has come aboard as an executive producer on Summertime, reuniting her with her Raya and the Last Dragon director Carlos López Estrada on his spoken-word poetry feature film that world premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Good Deed Entertainment has distribution rights to the pic…

Monday Update: Updated weekend box office figures for how spectacular Los Angeles did in its first weekend back after a year of shutdown during Covid: $1.55M from 75 theaters, which reps 8.8% of the $17.6M weekend box office. That figure is based off 75 theaters polled in Comscore, and reps a 743% explosion from the…

In Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, the titular character is strong, resilient, clever, has a strong bond to her community of the world of Kumandra and, above all, hopeful. That said, it’s no wonder that Kelly Marie Tran was chosen to voice the titular heroine. The Vietnamese-American actress emits those qualities…

I suppose it’s not fair to compare CGI animated movies about a boy — or girl — and their dragon, but if I must, let me just say this right off the top: I really prefer DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon and both of its sequels to the latest entry from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Raya and the Last Dragon. It had…

It took seven years for a sequel to come to fruition from DreamWorks Animation for its 2013 hit The Croods, but as it turns out the timing was just right. The coronavirus pandemic not only impacted the production process for the follow-up The Croods: A New Age, it also actually wound up giving it more gravitas and…

EXCLUSIVE: Passenger List, the mystery thriller podcast featuring Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran, is getting a television remake and has been renewed for a second season. The series, which is produced by Radiotopia from PRX and created by John Scott Dryden, is being developed for the small screen by Weimaraner Republic Pi…

The horror genre is a fun one in that it can go in many directions, but it is often dominated by men in front of and behind the camera. Hulu’s new anthology series Monsterland, which debuts Friday, subverts that expectation with a female showrunner and a cast and crew dominated by women. Monsterland creator and…

UPDATED with first-look image of the movie. Kelly Marie Tran is making history. Deadline has confirmed that the Star Wars alum has joined Walt Disney Animation Studios’ forthcoming animated feature Raya and the Last Dragon as the titular heroine, marking the first Southeast Asian to lead a Disney animated film. Tran…

Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is squarely in Rose Tico’s corner. Chu has taken to social media to urge Disney+ to make a Star Wars series revolving around Resistance member Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran in the Star Wars films The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. “Ok @disneyplus. Put me in coach…

Facebook Watch has released the trailer for Sorry for Your Loss ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The dark comedy stars Elizabeth Olsen as Leigh, a young widow dealing with the grief of losing her husband. Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) co-stars as her sister Jules, along…

When Kelly Marie Tran was cast in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it was a milestone for inclusivity in Hollywood: the first woman of color cast in the lead role of a Star Wars film. What should have been a celebratory moment turned sour because, well, the Internet tends to be trash and filled with trolls that enjoy…