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“Lightyear” in theaters this summer, Pixar Animation Studios is pulling back the curtain on another new film coming from the studio in 2023: “Elemental.”This new original film hails from “The Good Dinosaur” filmmaker Peter Sohn, who directs the story of an unlikely pair – Ember and Wade – living in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. A mismatched buddy story, the film follows a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy who “are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.”The film was inspired by Sohn’s own childhood in New York.

“Lightyear” in theaters this summer, Pixar Animation Studios is pulling back the curtain on another new film coming from the studio in 2023: “Elementals.”This new original film hails from “The Good Dinosaur” filmmaker Peter Sohn, who directs the story of an unlikely pair – Ember and Wade – living in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. A mismatched buddy story, the film follows a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy who “are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.”The film was inspired by Sohn’s own childhood in New York.

Some new details are coming out about Pixar’s movie Luca.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe upcoming Los Angeles-Italia Film Fashion and Art Festival will be honoring Italian directors Paolo Sorrentino (“The Hand of God”) and Enrico Casarosa (“Luca”) as well as costume-designer Massimo Cantini Parrini (“Cyrano”) all of whom have scored nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards. The 17th edition of the pre-Oscars event will be held March 20-26 at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre and also online.This year’s opening ceremony will be hosted by veteran Italian-American actor Robert Davi, who is also this year’s president of the event. Sofia Milos (“CSI: Miami”) and Hollywood acting coach Bernard Hiller will co-host.Consul General of Italy Silvia Chiave and Italian Institute of Culture chief Emanuele Amendola will also be introducing honorees both at the Chinese Theatre and during a separate March 25 event being held at the Italian Institute of Culture.

Terry Flores The VIEW Conference, in partnership with OGR, presents a full slate of free virtual PreVIEW panels in March featuring an array of Oscar nominees.First, on Friday, March 4, at 10 a.m. PT, will be a talk with the filmmakers behind the five nominees for animated feature.

Terry Flores The VIEW Conference in association with Baobab Studios and OGR is presenting free virtual panels with the creatives behind some of the season’s most critically acclaimed animated films.First up is a free virtual screening and conversation with the filmmakers behind “Namoo,” the shortlisted animated short by Oscar-nominated Erick Oh. In addition to Oh, speakers will include Baobab Studios’ co-founders Maureen Fan and Eric Darnell, who produced “Namoo,” art director Eusong Lee and lead Quill artist Nick Ladd.

them. (We didn’t get to chat with the filmmakers behind “Flee,” which was also nominated in the Foreign Language and Documentary categories.) As “Luca” director Enrico Casarosa said, “It’s so hard to make these movies, especially through the pandemic, so I think everyone in the 2021 batch of movies should be so proud.” Yes they should.While “Encanto” is set in sunny Colombia, director Byron Howard found himself in a far chillier predicament this morning. “They announce these things so early and I am not good at getting up in the morning.

Luca was nominated today for an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category. While the film is one of three Disney features nominated this year, but Luca is the only Pixar movie.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

Every year the same question is asked about the Best Animated Feature category: can anyone beat Disney? Walt Disney Studios, along with subsidiary Pixar, has won 14 Oscars in the Best Animated Feature category since the category began two decades ago, followed in a distant second by DreamWorks Animation’s two wins. 26 animated features are eligible to be nominated this year, and with only five slots, who will make the final cut?

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE“Dune”Paul Lambert, Brice Parker, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer“Godzilla vs. Kong”John “D.J.” Des Jardin, Tamara Kent, Bryan Hirota, Kevin Smith, Mike Meinardus“The Matrix Resurrections”Dan Glass, Nina Fallon, Tom Debenham, Huw J Evans, James Schwalm“No Time To Die”Charlie Noble, Mara Bryan, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner, Chris Courbold“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”Christopher Townsend, Damien Carr, Joe Farrell, Sean Walker, Dan Oliver“Spider-Man: No Way Home”Kelly Port, Julia Neighly, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein, Dan SudickOUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE“Candyman”Andrew Zink, James McQuaide, Josh Simmonds, Drew Dir, Ryan Evans“Last Night in Soho”Tom Proctor, Gavin Gregory, Julian Gnass, Fabricio Baessa“Nightmare Alley”Dennis Berardi, Ryan MacDuff, Mark Hammond, David Roby, Geoff Hill“The Last Duel”Gary Brozenich, Helen Judd, Jessica Norman, Yann Blondel, Stefano Pepin“The Tragedy of Macbeth”Alex Lemke, Michael Huber, Michael Ralla, Benedikt LaubenthalOUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE“Encanto”Scott Kersavage, Bradford Simonsen, Thaddeus P.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jack Dylan Grazer (We Are Who We Are, It and Shazam! franchises) has signed with WME for representation.

Here I am. Let the world deal with me,” Casarosa said.

The race to earn an Animated Feature Oscar nomination is traditionally competitive, but 2021 will likely see at least two critically acclaimed films on the outside looking in. Things got more interesting this morning when the 49th Annie Awards announced their nominees and “Raya and the Last Dragon“ led all contenders with 10 nominations.

Tim Gray Senior Vice President“Luca” fulfills Pixar’s mandate of expanding its boundaries. The animated film, directed by Enrico Casarosa, is set in Italy, but the storytelling is influenced by Japanese films, especially the works of Hayao Miyazaki: subtle, beautiful and moving.

As any filmmaker how you know your movie is a hit these days and their answer might surprise you, Instagram. If you’ve got something special, fan art of all kinds will pop up on the social media network.

For Luca, director Enrico Casarosa wanted to show how friendships impact children in most positive ways. Based on his own memories of meeting his childhood best friend, Luca is about how a real connection can change a lonely child’s life.

Rebecca Davis editorDisney’s “Luca” is the first Hollywood picture to get a release in China in weeks, but its opening figures didn’t make that big of a splash — at least, not close to enough to douse the continued reign of Donnie Yen action film “Raging Fire.”The animation directed and co-written by Enrico Casarosa swam to a $5.1 million China opening weekend, according to consultancy Artisan Gateway.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorJacob Tremblay stars as “Luca” in Pixar’s new animated feature.

Jon Burlingame It took composer Dan Romer a while to find the right Italian touch for the music of “Luca,” Disney-Pixar’s animated fantasy (opening June 18) about young sea monsters masquerading as humans on the Italian Riviera.“Not quite Italian enough” was director Enrico Casarosa’s response to his first try. “Too Italian!” was the response to his second.

Disney and Pixar's latest film,, will arrive on Disney+ this Friday, June 18, starring Jacob Tremblay and Jack Dylan Grazer as best friend's Luca and Alberto, teenage sea monsters who take to the land and pose as humans to try and have the summer of their lives in Italy.«At the heart of it was a story of a friendship and wanting to really go back to being kids and the summers of youth and the friendships of youth that helped us find ourselves,» director Enrico Casarosa told ET regarding what

Enrico Casarosa's “Luca” — a summery, shimmering fish-out-of-water fairy tale — is one of Pixar's most pure and condensed enchantments.Pixar has plunged into the sea before, of course, in the aquatic “Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory.” Lushly detailed waters have been sprinkled through many of the studio's films, from the rushing river of “The Good Dinosaur” to the frothy seaside surf of “Piper.” One personal favorite: how, after the frantic Paris chase in “Ratatouille,” the diminutive Chef

Back in 2012, Pixar released “Brave,” the offbeat “princess movie” set in the Scottish Highlands, and with it came “La Luna.” After watching the 7-minute short, “La Luna,” it was hard to focus on the feature. “La Luna” is one of the very best Pixar shorts, bristling with big-hearted charm, dynamic themes about family togetherness and the importance of a job well done, and draped in a distinctive style that set it apart not just from other Pixar shorts but from the features as well.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen production designer Daniela Strijleva joined Pixar’s “Luca” in 2016, she knew two things — the saga was set in Italy and it was a fantasy. With 3D animation informed by director Enrico Casarosa’s cartoony 2D drawings, the movie, available June 18 on Disney Plus, is the story of two teenage boys having a carefree summer at the Italian seaside.

Director Enrico Casarosa is addressing the comparisons of his new movie, Luca, to Call Me By Your Name.

were inevitable. And on the surface, Disney and Pixar's has all of those things in common.What was perhaps less expected was the memes likening to a mashup of and its Oscars peer,, considering the young boys in are actually sea monsters.«We were a little bit surprised.

One of the things Pixar does better than anyone, or all animated houses anyhow, is tapping into that feeling of youthful nostalgia and making it universal. What Pixar excel at, seemingly, is mix wistful coming of age stories about childhood or growing up and mix it with a fantasy element.

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.

Animation powerhouse Pixar has unveiled its next feature, Italy-setLuca, to be directed by Enrico Casarosa, writer and director of the studio's 2012 Academy Award-nominated animated short La Luna. Walt Disney said Luca, which will be produced by Andrea Warren (Lava, Cars 3),is set to open in U.S.

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.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterPixar Animation Studios has dated its Italy-set coming of age story Luca for a U.S. bow on June 18, 2021.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlinePixar announced its next original animated movie will be called “Luca,” and will release in U.S. theaters next summer.Enrico Casarosa (“La Luna”) is directing the film, which is expected to open on the big screen on June 18, 2021.“This is a deeply personal story for me, not only because it’s set on the Italian Riviera where I grew up, but because at the core of this film is a celebration of friendship.