Nimona

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…

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO | Official Trailer | NetflixSpeaking of the Academy Award for Best Animated Film, you can also find last year’s winner on Netflix—a stunning stop-motion interpretation of the classic children’s tale co-written and co-directed by Guillermo del Toro. It features the voices of Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Cristoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, and more. Watch on Netflix. GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO | Official Trailer | NetflixSpeaking of the Academy…

Polite Society, Suzume, Kids vs. Aliens, They Cloned Tyrone, and When Evil Lurks are on the listImage: Amazon, Crunchroll, Shudder, NetflixNo one can see every movie that comes out in a year. Heck, no one can even see all the good movies that come out in a year. These days, even if it’s literally your job, so many movies come out from all across the world, and on so many different platforms, that even if you spent all day every day watching, you’d probably still miss a few.Even so, we know there are movies that, if you…

Fans of genre movies had an absolute blast in 2023. Hollywood studios and streamers alike provided us with a seemingly never-ending slate of excellent fare. The animated films were fire. Some superhero films were super. And along the way, there were lots and lots of happy surprises. Below, you’ll find io9's picks for…Read more... Fans of genre movies had an absolute blast in 2023. Hollywood studios and streamers alike provided us with a seemingly never-ending slate of excellent fare. The animated films were fire. Some…

Stray, the smash-hit feline simulator platformer, is getting an animated film adaptation. As per Entertainment Weekly, Annapurna Animation is kickstarting its next lineup of movies, starting with 2022's award-winning title from BlueTwelve, wherein you play as a drone-equipped ginger cat lost in the neon-lit alleys of a forgotten cyber city, trying to get back home while dodging machines and robots. Robert Baird, who co-leads the division with Andrew Millstein, described the film's style as having a ‘hopepunk' vibe that…

For a longtime fan of ND Stevenson’s webcomic turned graphic novel, Nimona — someone who followed the original comic’s release week to week from 2012 to 2014, and became part of the growing fan base hanging onto each new cliffhanger and reveal — the release of Netflix’s animated adaptation is a bittersweet moment. It’s exciting that the film was actually completed and that it made it to the public, after Disney acquired the project and scuttled it, reportedly (and very believably, given Disney history) out of distaste…

Image via Netflix Back in May, Nimona had been allegedly canceled by Disney. This was due to the production company Blue Sky Studios getting shut down in 2021, reportedly due to financial strain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But that wasn’t the only reason; Disney also faced significant pushback because Nimona featured a same-sex kiss and the LGBTQ+ themes were frowned upon. Once Nimona had made it to Netflix, the LGBTQ+ community gathered in their masses to celebrate Netflix’s decision to take the project…

After being shut down by Disney and resurrected by Netflix, the animated movie adaptation of ND Stevenson’s webcomic-turned-graphic-novel Nimona is now available for streaming — and fans of the comic will immediately notice story and tonal differences. They’ll also notice some new backstory added in, in a story arc that Stevenson says dates back to the 2012 creation of the comic. “There’s one thing I really loved seeing in the movie, because it was a seed of an idea I had with the comic that didn’t really fit in the…

Cr: Netflix © 2023 The alarm bells have been ringing at Disney headquarters after a string of major box office disappointments in quick succession, a run that not even Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will be able to end. Whether it’s been the contentious call to send a string of Pixar originals straight to streaming, the likes of Lightyear and Strange World losing upwards of $100 million each, Elemental ironically failing to catch fire among paying customers, The Little Mermaid sinking to Davy Jones’…