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Let the domino effect begin. The fallout has started, but it’s not as bad as once thought.

Disney‘s dedication to showing a diverse, inclusive world is a real thing; just look at Marvel and the rest of their casting. And slowly, but surely, others under the main umbrella are getting with that program.

It’s funny, looking back at it now, when people were complaining a couple of years ago that Marvel Studios was going to become oversaturated and lose its audience. This was because the studio began releasing three films a year, with plans on making it four each calendar year.

Our FriendOur Friend (Jan. 22) featuring Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck, Jason Segel, and more is NOW PLAYING in theaters.The White TigerThe White Tiger (Jan.

Including the just-released “Soul,” over the past decade, Pixar has released 13 feature films. And of those 13 features, more than half of them (seven to be exact) are sequels.

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a virtual Broadway performance crowdsourced and organised via social media, has raised more than $1 million (£730,000) in premiere night ticket sales in support of The Actors Fund.The production began life as a viral TikTok video about a musical adaptation of the 2007 Disney/Pixar film, eventually expanding into a genuine full-scale performance that premiered on New Year’s Day – starring the likes of Titus Burgess, Wayne Brady, Adam Lambert, and Ashley Park.The

The New York Times Magazine, “movies, ordinarily vehicles to transport us out of our quotidian existence, became in 2020 the means to escape from our new science-fiction reality.”I, like countless others, spent this year diving into many fictitious worlds, indulging both in new releases and nostalgic favorites.

glowing reviews lauding the Disney+ release’s music, animation and depiction of black culture. The groundbreaking animated movie, which feature’s the studio’s first African-American protagonist, follows middle school jazz teacher Joe Gardner (played by Jamie Foxx) who’s untimely death prompts him to embark on a posthumous pilgrimage to recover his lost soul.

new animated movie “Soul,” which begins streaming on Disney+ on Christmas Day, jazz pianist Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx) is set to have his big break playing at the Half Note, a Greenwich Village club with shades of the Village Vanguard.

If you thought Pixar’s resume couldn’t get any more impressive, “Soul“—the studio’s upcoming release about passion, music, and a soul-in-training—will prove you wrong. That’s no small task.

Soul (★★★★☆) swoops and swerves like a bebop solo, interpreting great mysteries of life and death with style and effortless grace.For the movie’s hero, pianist Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), jazz encompasses all. It’s music, it’s a profession, a touchstone of Black and American culture, and the vehicle he uses to transmit to his middle school band students what it means to be passionate about something.

Captain America Chris Evans has landed another superhero role as the new voice of Buzz Lightyear.The Marvel star will take on the Toy Story spaceman, voiced in four films by Tim Allen, in a new origins movie for Pixar.Finding Dory co-director Angus MacLane has signed on to oversee the film.“I don’t even have the words,” a thrilled Evans wrote in response to the news, along with the announcement from Disney bosses, which read: “Blasting into theaters June 17, 2022, Lightyear is the definitive

Today at Walt Disney‘s Investors Day call, Pixar Animation Studios’ Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter shared details about the Northern California studio’s upcoming slate of original series for Disney+ and feature films. “Today, I’m excited to introduce you to a bunch of fresh, new filmmakers,” Docter said.

maaaaan, have they mastered the formula to sell their far-out films: Take complex psychological concepts and let adorable animated blobs simplify them. No one has ever raged against cute-splaining.

In the race for the most shocking news of 2020, in regards to the film industry, that is, we have already sent the trophy to WarnerMedia for its massive announcement that the studio’s entire Warner Bros. 2021 film slate was getting sent to HBO Max the same day as theaters.

In the age of Covid-19, release dates, might be fluid, but release dates and trailers essentially have symbiotic relationships. New date? A new trailer, especially when that date is fixed and no longer beholden to the vagaries of Covid-19 susceptible theaters.

Once upon a time, you were guaranteed flawlessness from a Pixar production, aside from the odd “Cars” flick here and there. The studio has, however, become something of a sequel mill over the past decade, boasting only a few masterworks since the halcyon days of “Ratatouille,” “WALL-E” and “Up”; the five years since they released what was arguably their greatest work, “Inside Out,” stands out as something of a creative no man’s land.

The dominos of departing theatrical releases from the 2020 calendar continue as theater chains face hurdles opening in the United States due to a continuing widespread COVID-19 pandemic and closures loom as Europe finds itself on the verge of a second wave. Expected blockbusters such as “Dune” and “No Time To Die” have already pushed to 2021 and now one of Disney’s expected crown jewels has joined their ranks.

Disney and Pixar over their Toy Story 4 character Duke Caboom.Kelly Knievel, who had publicity rights to Evel Knievel since 1978, has accused the studios of financially gaining from a character they based on his father without seeking permission.“Evel Knievel did not thrill millions, break his bones and spill his blood just so Disney could make a bunch of money,” the lawsuit filed in Las Vegas reads.Through his K and K Promotions, Knievel is seeking unspecified damages totalling more than

“Toy Story 4” daredevil Duke Caboom may look like an homage to Evel Knievel — but the ambiguously inspired cartoon is now blowing up in the filmmakers’ faces.K&K Promotions, a company which claims rights to the legendary real-life stuntman’s image and likeness, is suing Disney, Pixar and others for their liberal use of Knievel’s persona in the beloved family film, according to a lawsuit filed by attorneys Randall Jones and Ronald DiNicola in US.

It has been rumored for a while now, but a new Variety report seems to confirm it—Disney is about to delay the release of “Black Widow.” And with that move, movie theaters are probably going to be put in panic mode. The report claims that Disney is likely going to delay “Black Widow,” but no new date is being revealed at this time.

Pixar has announced details of its next animated film release, a coming-of-age tale called Luca set in the Italian Riviera.

What’s Pixar Animation Studios up to these days? Well, apart from waiting for the right available theatrical window to unveil their jazz movie“Soul,” currently due November 2020, but who knows if that sticks given the COVID-19 shifts, they have four more mystery films on the docket with various release dates between 2021 and 2023.

Pixar’s “Soul,” Wes Anderson’s star-packed “The French Dispatch” and Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove” and Lover’s Rock” are among the 56 movies which will receive a Cannes 2020 label as part of the festival’s eclectic Official Selection.

Pixar made history Friday with the release of the animated short film “Out” — The first film from Pixar to feature an LGBTQ storyline and a main character who identifies as gay.

The Disney-owned computer-generated animation studio premiered the LGBTQ-themed short film on Disney+ streaming service as part of its more experimental SparkShorts program, reports dailymail.co.uk.

Pixar Animation Studios’ short animated film “Out” — which features the first gay lead character for the company — is melting hearts on the Disney+ channel.

The feature animation Soul movie release has been pushed back from this summer to November. The Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios film was set to debut in June but due to the current global crisis and the fact that cinemas remain closed in most of the major territories, the film will be pushed five months. The date now set is 20th November which has also meant that the release of Walt Disney Animation’s Raya and the Last Dragon has also moved to 2021 (12th March).