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This morning, animation legend Glen Keane was up before the sun and learned that he'd scored his first Oscar nom for Best Animated Feature Film, for his debut feature — Netflix musical fantasy, Over the Moon. "It’s pretty exciting. I tend to get up around four o’clock anyway, but this was something to get up at four o…

EXCLUSIVE: The late Audrey Wells was a prolific screenwriter and director whose work focused on strong female characters, from 2003’s Under the Tuscan Sun and 1999’s Guinevere through to 2018’s The Hate U Give. That trend continued with Over the Moon, Netflix’s animated musical about based on a Chinese myth about a…

EXCLUSIVE: Cathy Ang has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas. The up-and-coming Chinese-Filipino-American actress and singer most recently starred as Fei Fei in Netflix/Pearl Studios’ Golden Globe- and NAACP Image Award-nominated feature film Over the Moon, directed by legendary animator Glen…

One of the most influential artists working in the medium of animation over the last half-century, Glen Keane brought his long-awaited debut feature to the screen just last fall. That film—the musical fantasy Over the Moon—certainly was worth the wait. Bringing splendid life to both modern-day China and a fantastical…

Since the inception of the Oscars' Best Animated Feature category in 2001, the race has been utterly dominated by powerhouse American studios—the most notable examples being Walt Disney Studios and its Emeryville subsidiary, Pixar. Having claimed eight Oscars over the last decade, and 13 overall, these studios have…

After years of helping deliver some of the more legendary Disney animated characters like Aladdin and The Beast, Over the Moon director Glen Keane knew early on he had found his next great animated character to help bring to life. “Fei Fei was a character that immediately, I was drawn to,” Keane says during the…

Netflix’s film and series music showcase Playlist launched Monday in the first of a series of conversations with composers and songwriters as well as performers. Here we moderated a conversation with the composers of Netflix’s suite of awards season movies: three-time Oscar winner Howard Shore who gave a moving…

On today’s Crew Call, we speak to the songwriters of Netflix-Pearl Studio’s animated feature Over the Moon, Helen Park, Marjorie Duffield and Christopher Curtis, whose live-musical theater sensibilities were brought together for a story about a young Chinese girl, who after losing her mother, builds a rocket ship and…

Glen Keane is a Disney animation legend whose work on such classics as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast has been widely praised, as was his Oscar-winning animated short Dear Basketball which he directed, as well as produced, with the late Kobe Bryant. It is no wonder I was expecting big things from his…

Netflix and Pearl Studio have released the first trailer for family feature Over The Moon, the animated musical retelling of the classic Chinese myth. The film's voice cast has also been revealed, including Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn, Artt Butler, Sandra Oh and…

Pearl Studio, which is turning Audrey Wells’ final screenplay Over the Moon into an animated movie, has gifted $100,000 in scholarships to the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Wells’ name. Wells, a UCLA TFT alum, died in October at age 58 after a long battle with cancer, just one day before the release…

Former Disney animator Glen Keane is on board to helm Over the Moon, the animated musical retelling of the classic Chinese myth for Pearl Studio and Netflix. Slated for release in 2020, the pic follows a girl who builds a rocket ship and blasts off to the moon in hopes of meeting a legendary Moon Goddess. Audrey…