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2nd Update, Friday 5:14PM: Disney/Pixar’s elfin adventure movie Onward in 4pm numbers is looking at $11.3M today, and between $37.5M-$40M over 3-days at 4,310 locations. While that’s on the lower end of an original Pixar movie, in the neighborhood of Ratatouille ($47.5M), and the 3-days of Good Dinosaur ($39.1M) and A…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney/Pixar’s family film Onward has been banned in multiple Middle East markets due to the film’s minor reference to a lesbian relationship. In the movie, about two teenage elf brothers in a mythical world who embark on a quest for magic, there is a passing reference to an LGBTQ relationship between two…

It is hard to believe that Pixar has hit the quarter-century mark, but it has been exactly 25 years since Toy Story took animated features in a new and most welcome direction. Since then, with just under one new movie a year, it has been in the enviable position of frequently topping itself. (Not always, but much of…

Despite the growing concern about the coronavirus, the global business for Disney/Pixar’s elf fantasy feature Onward should turn out to be solid. To date, there aren’t any theaters closed in the U.S. nor do sources expect any in the near future — and certainly not in a grave way like in China, which has seen its…

"The impact in 2020 from Covid-19 (coronavirus) on the motion picture business cannot be overstated," a finance source recently told us. That's as the closure of cinemas in China alone is approaching a loss of $2B to the global box office, while the disease has now seen spikes in Korea and Italy. What looked in late…

They’re not brothers in real life, but they are brothers-in-arms in the new Pixar film Onward. That’s why it was a particular delight to see Tom Holland surprise Chris Pratt on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a good, old-fashioned walk-on. During a segment in which Pratt was taking audience questions, a planted Holland showed…

The first Disney release of 2020, Pixar’s Onward, arrived on tracking today with a $44 million projection. Some believe that the forecast for the March 6 release is low and could go higher. The movie directed by Dan Scanlon and featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Octavia Spencer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus…

Sao Paulo went Onward at CCXP on Saturday as director Dan Scanlon of the forthcoming Pixar film featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer took the dais at the pop culture confab. The animated pic may be set in a visually stunning fantasy world where unicorns roam the…

Disney’s animated movies often feature a missing parent, but the next Pixar toon kinda flips the script. Dad is gone in Onward, but it seems there’s a way to bring him back, if only for a day. Watch the new trailer above. Tom Holland and Chris Pratt star as Ian and Barley Lightfoot, teenage brothers in a suburban…

Spider-Man: Far From Home star Tom Holland made an appearance at Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim today, just days after Disney and Sony’s standoff over the Spider-Man film franchise ended with Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige no longer being involved in it. “It’s been a crazy week,” Holland said from the stage, “but I want…

Game 1 of the the NBA Finals on ABC had a surprise — the debut of the teaser trailer for Disney and Pixar's Onward, a new original film hitting theaters March 6. Featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer, the film is set in a suburban fantasy world. Two teenage elf…

Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer have been set to lead the voice cast of Onward, the next film in the works at Pixar Animation Studios. Dan Scanlon (Monsters University) is directing the pic, which is set to hit theaters on March 6, 2020. Disney said today the plot centers on two…