Chris Evans is showing off his stunt skills!
05.10.2022 - 17:43 / variety.com
Andrew Barker Senior Features Writer “A Chinese Canadian tween undergoes magical puberty and turns into a giant red panda.” As far as elevator pitches go, it’s not exactly “‘Jaws’ in space” or “snakes on a plane.” But that highly specific logline is the one that Domee Shi used to persuade Pixar to greenlight her feature directorial debut, some half a decade ago when the then-20-something was a budding storyboard artist on the studio’s Emeryville campus. Shi’s film, “Turning Red,” delivers on every bit of that premise, focusing on a confidently nerdy Toronto girl named Mei and her loving yet strict mother, Ming, whose perfectly ordered lives are thrust into chaos by Mei’s sudden transformation. The film was released last spring, and immediately notched a number of milestones for the studio: the first Pixar feature solely directed by a woman, the first Pixar feature with all-female creative leads, and only the second Pixar feature directed by a person of Asian descent. But the particulars of Shi’s identity aside, it also represented the emergence of a singular new voice within the celebrated studio, and everything from its cultural specificity, to its animation style — impressionistic, frantically paced, anime-influenced — to its openness in addressing the messiness of early adolescence (from menstruation and mother issues to the suggestion that a tween girl’s love of a particular boy band might have some extra-musical motivations) felt both of a piece with the Pixar tradition and something invigoratingly new.
“From the beginning, we were going to be touching on all the awkward, cringey, embarrassing moments of tweenhood in this movie,” says the 33-year-old Shi, who is receiving Variety’s Creative Impact in Animation
Chris Evans is showing off his stunt skills!
Girl In Red has shared a new single produced by The National‘s Aaron Dessner – listen to ‘October Passed Me By’ below.The track, announced last week, serves as the long-awaited sequel to 2018 single ‘We Fell In Love In October’, and follows the singer’s 2021 debut album. ‘If I Could Make It Go Quiet’.In a statement about the song and its short film, Girl In Red said: “’October Passed Me By’ has been living in the back of my head since June 2021. Every fall since I put out ‘We Fell In Love In October’ in 2018, I was encouraged to do things on social media to talk about the song again.
Chris Evans is back on set and ready to film!
Post Malone is making Madison Square Garden his home for two nights.The 27-year-old rapper, formerly known as Austin Richard Post, will perform at the Mecca of Basketball on Wednesday, Oct. 12 and Thursday, Oct. 13 as part of his ongoing “Twelve Carat Tour.”Malone recently made headlines on the tour after falling in a hole for his guitar stand and subsequently bruising his ribs while performing in St.
Red Hot Chili Peppers gave their new single and tribute song to Eddie Van Halen its live debut at the weekend – watch footage below.The band released the song, titled ‘Eddie’, last month as the second preview of their forthcoming 13th album, ‘Return Of The Dream Canteen’.In a press release, frontman Anthony Kiedis explained the story behind the tribute: “Sometimes we don’t realise how deeply affected and connected we are to artists until the day they die. Eddie Van Halen was a one of a kind.“The day after his death Flea came into rehearsal with an emotional bassline.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, claiming that creatively, the experience was “enormously stifling”.Klinghoffer joined the band in 2009 after serving as a touring member following the departure of guitarist John Frusciante. Klinghoffer recorded two albums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers – 2011’s ‘I’m With You’ and 2016’s ‘The Getaway’.
billion minutes watched in its first week, in 2.5 million households. The movie tells the tale of Meilin (Rosalie Chiang), a Chinese-Canadian tween girl who is entering puberty and discovers that when she gets too excited, she turns into a giant red panda.
William Daniels played an essential role as Mr. Feeny in the classic sit-com Boy Meets World. However, that almost wasn’t the case.
Michaela Zee editor Domee Shi and six of Variety’s animation honorees gathered at this year’s Variety 10 Animators to Watch event, presented by Nickelodeon, on Thursday night. The in-person awards ceremony and cocktail reception took place at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, Calif., where fellow creatives and representatives in the animation space celebrated this year’s class of rising storytellers. The honorees in attendance included Fawn Veerasunthorn, Arthur Fong, Shea Fontana, Sergio Valdivia, Natasha Kline and Juston Gordon-Montgomery. Pixar Animation Studios filmmaker Shi received the 2022 Creative Impact in Animation award.
“The Eternal,” includes a montage of the actor in various states of dance and nonsensical slapstick not to be missed.You can watch the full video at the top of this file.
Post Malone has that fresh ink feeling. The 27-year-old «Sunflower» singer — whose real name is Austin Post — received a massive new face tattoo of the letters «DDP» in bold, gothic script on his forehead. The tat is reportedly in honor of his daughter, according to TMZ.Post has yet to reveal his child's full name. The musician welcomed a baby girl earlier this year with his fiancee, but has kept both of their identities under wraps. «I want to let her make her own decisions,» he said in a June interview on Sirius XM's, referencing his little girl. Indiana-based tattoo artist Chad Rowe — who also created Posty's famous «Always Tired» undereye tattoos -- shared an image of the new tat on Instagram.
Post Malone has insisted his baby daughter is "way cooler" than him. In June, the Circles rapper announced that he and his fiancée had welcomed a daughter. Post, real name Austin Post, has not yet shared any details about his partner or their first child, but during a recent interview with GQ, he indicated that he is loving fatherhood.
Post Malone has opened up about fatherhood; how his baby daughter seems to be enjoying his music, and how he’s juggling the responsibilities of being a dad with the rigours of a touring lifestyle.In a new interview with GQ, the rapper said he’s largely enjoying fatherhood, having welcomed his daughter – whose name has not been made public – back in June. “It’s really tough not being able to see her,” he told the publication, “but she’s coming out more often now. She’s huge, she’s super tall, and she’s such a legend and I’m just happy to see her.
Post Malone is loving fatherhood! In a new interview with, the 28-year-old rapper gushes about his 4-month-old daughter. “It is great,” the “Circles” rapper said when asked how he is enjoying his latest role. “It’s really tough not being able to see her, but she’s coming out more often now.
Post Malone will restart his ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’ tour tonight (September 27) in Cleveland, Ohio.Over the weekend, Post revealed he had been taken to hospital for pain after waking up to “cracking sounds on the right side of [his] body”. The pain likely stemmed from an injury he sustained onstage in St.
Jim Post, who with then-wife Cathy under the band name Friend & Lover scored a Top 10 hit in 1968 with the enduring hippie anthem “Reach Out of the Darkness,” died of congestive heart failure Sept. 14 in Dubuque, Iowa. He was 82.