Disney/Pixar’s Soul has picked up the Best Animated Feature Film award at the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday (April 25)!
The hit animated film, which debuted on Disney+ on Christmas Day 2020, beat out another Disney/Pixar film, Onward, as well as Netflix’s Over The Moon and Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon and Apple TV’s Wolfwalkers.
Director and co-writer Pete Docter and executive producer Dana Murray accepted the award during the ceremony. Check out photos of them on the red carpet!
Disney and Pixar are gearing up to release the brand new short “22 vs. Earth“!
The new short will follow soul 22 from the hit movie Soul, with Tina Fey reprising her voice role as the character, and is set before the events of the film.
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The Disney/Pixar film picked up BOTH of the awards that it was nominated for at the ceremony on Sunday night (February 28).
Soul won the Best Animated Feature and the Best Original Score awards.
Co-director Kemp Powers only just found out that he was nominated alongside director Pete Docter and producer Dana Murray for the Best Animated Feature that morning!
“Speechless. Congrats to our entire #PixarSoul team for tonight’s Golden Globe win! And congrats to @jonbatiste @treznor #atticusross for their win for best score!” he wrote in celebration on Instagram after the wins.
Soul beat out another Disney film for the Best Animated Feature – Onward!
While announcing that the film had won the Best Original Score award, presenter Tracy Morgan had a little slip-up and said “Sal” instead. See more on Just Jared!
The voice cast for Disney/Pixar’s new movie Luca has been revealed!
Starring in the title role is Jacob Tremblay as Luca Paguro, a bright and inventive 13-year-old sea monster with endless curiosity—especially when it comes to the mysterious world above the sea.
Also in the cast is Jack Dylan Grazer as Alberto Scorfano, an independent, free-spirited teenage sea monster with unbridled enthusiasm for the human world, and Emma Berman voices Giulia, an outgoing and charming adventurer who befriends Luca and Alberto.
Here’s a synopsis: Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
Huge news for Disney and Pixar’s latest film Soul!
The animated movie, which was released on Disney+ on Christmas Day, had the highest number of streams on the Nielsen streaming rankings.
For the holiday release, Soul even had more streams than Netflix hits Bridgerton and The Midnight Sky, as well as The Office!
The movie brought in 1.7 BILLION minutes of viewing time for the week December 21-27. To note, Bridgerton received 1.2 billion minutes, The Midnight Sky had 1.11 billion and in it’s final days on Netflix, The Office had 1.435 billion minutes.
Soul‘s numbers are equivalent to almost 17 million full watch throughs of the movie, which has a total run time of one hour and 49 minutes, according to Disney+.
That week was also the first time that Disney+ had two titles in the top 10 rankings on the Nielsen streaming chart. The Mandalorian sat at No 5 with 1.02 billion minutes.
Disney+ has a new shorts series coming soon from Pixar!
The streaming service just premiered the trailer for the upcoming Pixar Popcorn on Tuesday (January 19), in honor of National Popcorn Day.
Pixar Popcorn is a collection of 10 “all-new bite-sized stories” featuring characters from fan favorite films including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Cars and The Incredibles.
The shorts are just the latest from the Pixar team, following the recent release of Soul, as well as Inside Pixar, Lamp Life, Pixar In Real Life, Forky Asks a Question and Sparkshorts.
If you missed it, it was recently revealed that Chris Evans will be voicing a new character from the world of Disney Pixar’s Toy Story in a brand new, upcoming film!
The Pixar Popcorn shorts will premiere on Friday, January 22nd, exclusively on Disney+.
Chris Evans is going to infinity and beyond and taking part in another Disney franchise!
It was just announced that 39-year-old Captain America star will voice Buzz Lightyear in an upcoming Disney/Pixar film called Lightyear.
The film will be a prequel to Toy Story and is the “definitive story of the original Buzz Lightyear.”
In addition, Disney shared a teaser clip and a first look photo of the space commander.
This is the newest Buzz Lightyear spinoff from the Toy Story franchise. He’s previously been the star of the film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and the TV series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
Buzz has been voiced by Tim Allen in all four Toy Story films, as well as Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, and he’s also been voiced by Pat Fraley and Patrick Warburton in other projects.
Blasting into theaters June 17, 2022, Lightyear is the definitive story of the original Buzz Lightyear. Voiced by @ChrisEvans, get ready to go to “infinity and beyond” with Lightyear. 🚀 👨🚀 pic.twitter.com/LdYXlN33sP
Here’s a first look of the young test pilot that became the Space Ranger we all know him to be today. Lightyear launches into theaters June 17, 2022. pic.twitter.com/Ho2ChPrQbx
