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Movie Review – Elemental (2023)

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Elemental, 2023. Directed by Peter Sohn. Featuring the voice talents of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Mason Wertheimer, Ronobir Lahiri, Wilma Bonet, Joe Pera, Matthew Yang King, Clara Lin Ding, Reagan To, Jeff Lapensee, Ben Morris, Jonathan Adams, Alex Kapp, and P.L. Brown. SYNOPSIS: Follows Ember and […]

Pixar boss says Elemental will be profitable following slow-burn box-office success

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Following the worst opening weekend box-office gross in the history of Pixar, the studio’s head honcho has today announced that Elemental will in fact turn a healthy profit once all of the Disney dollars are counted.  Elemental has performed in a manner befitting the elements at the heart of its story. It drowned with an […]

Box Office: Spider-Verse pips Elemental to swing back to the top, while The Flash crashes hard

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There was plenty of narrative atop the U.S. box office this weekend, with experts eager to see how relative flops The Flash and Elemental would hold up in the face of an R-rated Jennifer Lawrence and the all conquering Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.  Let’s start with the big news, which would ordinarily be the film […]

Disney and Pixar’s Elio gets first teaser trailer

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Disney and Pixar have released the first teaser trailer for their next animated film Elio. Starring the voices of Yonas Kibreab (Sweet Tooth), America Ferrera (Superstore), Jameela Jamil (The Good Place) and Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), the film follows a young boy who is taken up to space when he is mistakenly identified as Earth’s […]

Up short film sequel Carl’s Date gets new trailer

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Carl Fredricksen is coming to float into our hearts again as the main character behind the fan-favorite Up will return in a new short film that will play in front of the upcoming Elemental. The all-new short, Carl’s Date, returns to the studio’s tradition of pairing its feature films with animated shorts on the big […]

Disney-Pixar’s Elemental clip introduces Ember and Wade

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Disney-Pixar has released a clip from Elemental, the upcoming animated adventure from director Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), featuring fire element Ember (Leah Lewis) and water element Wade (Mamoudou Athie); watch it below… In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about […]

Eight Franchises We’d Like To See Added to Disney Speedstorm

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Harrison Abbott with eight franchises we’d like to see added to Disney Speedstorm… Although it’s only a couple of weeks old, Disney Speedstorm has plenty for gamers to be working their way through. There’s a single-player campaign that acquaints you with all of the basic mechanics, ranked online matches, a season tour mode, countless modifiers, […]

Epcot mascot Figment joins Disney Speedstorm roster

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A Floridian theme park mascot has been announced as one of the playable characters that will be coming to Disney Speedstorm at launch. If you’re not familiar with the upcoming title, it’s essentially an arcade racer in the vein of Mario Kart or Crash Team Racing, with the unique selling point being that it swaps […]

Meet the residents of Element City in Disney-Pixar’s Elemental trailer

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Disney and Pixar have dropped the official trailer for their latest animated fable Elemental, which transports moviegoers to an extraordinary place called Element City, where a host of elements live and work, and it’s safe to say that without any hint of elemental bias, Peter Sohn’s film looks fire.  The trailer introduces us to the […]