Pixar Animation Studios has dated its Italy-set coming of age story Lucafor a U.S. bow on June 18, 2021. Pic marks the feature directing debut of Oscar nominee Enrico Casarosa (La Luna). Andrea Warren (Lava, Cars 3) is producing.
Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, the original animated feature is…
When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…
Onward, the DisneyPixar animated feature, is being made available online ahead of schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on cinemas.
The studio will make the film available to buy digitally and on Movies Anywhere for $19.99 today at 5:00PM PST, and it will be released on Disney+ on April 3 in the U.S.
It…
4th Update, Sunday AM writethru final w/chart: Disney/Pixar’s Onwardsaw an estimated $16.56M on Saturday, a growth of 37% over Friday’s result, putting this morning’s industry estimate for the pic’s U.S./Canada opening at $40.4M. Disney is calling the weekend at $40M.
While that result is at the lower end of Pixar…
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…
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…
Parasite and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 were expected to be respectable also-rans when it was time to hand out the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Animated Feature Film, respectively, but instead but they ran off with the trophies in surprise upsets.
Parasite‘s Best Picture win was a stunner that puts the 92nd Academy…
EXCLUSIVE: It’s not easy to tell an engaging story. It’s even harder when you have to bring a long-running tale that’s familiar and beloved by the world to a fitting conclusion.
That was the formidable task faced by screenwriters Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom when they set out to tackle the script for Pixar’s Toy…
It's hard to believe, but the Toy Story franchise turns 25 in 2020. In that time, the original CG animation hit has only generated a modest three sequels. Luckily, in this instance less means more: the fourth outing for Woody, Buzz and company has been a hit with critics and audiences, rating over 90% fresh for both…
Beginning her journey with Pixar eight years ago, as a storyboard artist on The Good Dinosaur, Rosana Sullivan made her directorial debut this year with Kitbull, which on Monday made the Academy's shortlist for Best Animated Short Film.
Examining a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull, and the unlikely…
As the voice of everybody's favorite talking Jack Russell terrier Max in The Secret Life of Pets 2, Patton Oswalt not only brought his own unique, edgy humor and laugh-out-loud sardonic tone, but he was also stepping into Max's paws following Louis C.K.'s removal from the role—a situation Oswalt graciously doesn't…
