Gabrielle Beaumont, who may have directed more primetime hours of television than any other women in history, died peacefully on October 8th at her home in Spain, her brother Christopher Toyne confirmed to Deadline.
06.12.2022 - 22:55 / deadline.com
With Turning Red, director Domee Shi revisited her own past to create a story of a young girl struggling with pleasing her family as she comes into adolescence. It’s a story so relatable that Lindsey Collins, who was running Pixar’s creative development at the time, says she practically begged Shi to let her produce the film. Turning Red follows Meilin (Rosalie Chiang), a 13-year-old girl from Toronto who works at her family’s temple to make her mother Ming (Sandra Oh) proud. Due to a family blessing/curse, Meilin finds herself transforming into a large red panda whenever she experiences strong emotions, which is less than ideal for a teenager.
DEADLINE: What was the inspiration for Turning Red?
DOMEE SHI: The inspiration for Turning Red came from my own life. I was Meilin, that dorky 13-year-old girl who struggled with being her mom’s perfect little daughter and dealing with her own inner raging hormonal beast. The movie was an opportunity for me to revisit that tumultuous time in my life, and a lot of people’s lives, when everything’s changing around them and their emotions are a huge rollercoaster and they’re just trying to figure out how can they become themselves while also honoring the people that matter most to them, which is their family.
DEADLINE: What was the partnership between the two of you like?
LINDSEY COLLINS: I was actually running creative developments when Domee started developing this film, so I got the benefit of seeing the very beginning of the germ of this idea, as well as a couple others she was working on. I just kind of jumped out of development and jumped full time on to the film and it was great. I really felt as though the fact that we had this largely female led film really translated to
Gabrielle Beaumont, who may have directed more primetime hours of television than any other women in history, died peacefully on October 8th at her home in Spain, her brother Christopher Toyne confirmed to Deadline.
Billie Lourd has introduced fans to her second child. The Booksmart actress took to Instagram on Thursday to share a close-up photo of the infant, who was born on 12 December.
After 25 years of working in Disney animation, director Chris Williams decided that Netflix was the right place to finally make the animated action-adventure he always dreamed of with The Sea Beast. The film follows Jacob (Karl Urban), a hunter of sea monsters, and Maisie (Zaris-Angel Hator), a young stowaway, as they join the crew of the Inevitable and embark on a hunt for the elusive Red Bluster. The pair soon discover that the beasts are not as sinister as they are rumored to be, which causes Jacob to grapple with the idea of what it truly means to be a hero. The film was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, who also provided the animation last year for The Mitchells vs the Machines.
The show’s name is Ginny & Georgia, so it clearly wasn’t going to keep the mother and daughter apart for long. Following the Season 1 finale cliffhanger, in which Ginny and her little brother skipped town after she discovered that their mom had poisoned their stepfather, the Season 2 trailer features Georgia and her kids back under the same roof in Wellsbury.
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