Blue Sky

Cinema’s annual awards race comes to a close this weekend during the Academy Awards, and there’s no other story like Nimona’s journey to becoming a nominee in the Best Animated Feature category. IMDb Changes Rating System After Little Mermaid Review-Bombed | Future TechProducers Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary sat down with io9 to tell this remarkable tale of second chances. After Nimona’s original studio, Blue Sky, was closed during the Fox-Disney merger, the project found a new home at Annapurna Animation and Netflix,…

Nimona went from being a movie that was almost certainly lost to the ether to an Oscar nominee—a story as miraculous as the sumptuous, wildly inventive, and queer as hell film turned out to be when we finally got to see it on Netflix. But it was only allowed to do so when Annapurna helped bring the project out of the mouse-eared hell it found itself in. “I had never seen a character like Nimona in a film, let alone an animated family movie,” Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures’ founder, told the Hollywood Reporter about her…

Photo: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket (Getty Images)Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging platform launched by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has finally opened its doors to the public. For the past year or so, Bluesky has subsisted on an invite-only model that only allowed users to set up an account if they had been invited to the platform by someone already using it. Bluesky would occasionally dole out new activation codes to keep the site growing—a strategy that ensured continued hype and FOMO surrounding…

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter late last year, things have gone from bad to worse at the microblogging site. Many users want out, and they’re hoping that there’s a worthy alternative waiting in the wings. Even if Meta’s newly launched Threads is currently enjoying all the attention, the other major Twitter alternative—Bluesky—is, in many ways, the most obvious heir apparent.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewFor one thing, Bluesky was created by former Twitter guru Jack Dorsey,…

Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout of inspired stupidity, Musk tweeted out a new edict Saturday: from now on, anybody who doesn’t pay for Twitter will only be able to read a certain number of tweets per day. The subsequent uproar from platform users apparently encouraged some of them to seek refuge elsewhere, namely, on Twitter’s competitor site, Bluesky. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl…

It was first rumored a few months ago that Meta-owned Instagram was working on a new text-based app. The reports also suggested that the new app was built on the back of Instagram and would compete with Twitter. And after a bit of a quiet time, we finally know more about this platform and it appears to be close to completion. A new report has revealed more information about the app, its functionality, design, and more.The information comes from Lia Haberman, who first revealed the details in her ICYMI Substack newsletter…

Image: Shapeshifter Studios | NetflixNimona, set to be released on Netflix in 2023, is now officially the flagship movie for Annapurna Animation. Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein—both former Disney animation execs—are leading the newly-established animation division at Annapurna Inc., which is best known for its video games, including the 2022 feline-follow-along hit, Stray. “We instantly felt at home at Annapurna,” said Robert Baird. “Their vision is extremely compelling and is a deep match with our values and the types…