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Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” the first of Warner Bros.’ eclectic, pricey 2025 slate of original films from name-brand directors like Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson, isn’t getting the warmest arrival at the box office. The sci-fi comedy, starring Robert Pattinson as a pair of interstellar doppelgangers, earned $7.7 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,807 locations.

That kick-off puts “Mickey 17” on pace to land within projections for an opening weekend north of $18 million. Whether or not it can fulfill that forecast though, it’s going to be a slow start for a film sporting a $118 million production budget. Add in marketing and distribution costs and the Warner Bros. release will likely struggle to enter profitability in theaters, which could take more than $275 million in global admissions.

Playing in Imax and other premium large-format auditoriums, “Mickey 17” will easily top domestic charts. But the film won’t open...

Exclusive: Hulu has acquired exclusive U.S. rights to Let’s Start a Cult, an indie dark comedy co-written, executive produced by and starring top comic Stavros Halkias, slating it to premiere on February 4.

Directed by Ben Kitnick, the film follows an obnoxious loser who, having missed out on his cult’s long awaited ritual suicide, teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly-bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult… but will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny, or decide this life might be worth living after all?

Released by Dark Sky Films in October, the film should see a major boost in viewership in its Hulu debut. Pic also features well-known comedians including Joe Pera, Tom Papa and Robert Kelly, as well as Ethan Suplee, Wes Haney,...

Cm Punk, the WWE star who comes to the ring to the music of "Cult of Personality," is set to appear in an upcoming movie focused on a doomed cult. It's the latest role for the entertainer, who has dabbled in acting in addition to his immense success in the pro wrestling business.

Per Ringside News, Phil Brooks, also known as Cm Punk, has a role in the upcoming dark comedy film Let's Start a Cult. The film, set to be released on Oct. 25, has also been given an official poster highlighting its main cast. While Punk is not seen on the poster, "and Phil Brooks" can be seen at the end of the list of names, suggesting he'll have a special cameo. As of now, however, details about his role have not been disclosed.

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Join Chip Harper on a hilarious journey to rebuild his doomsday cult in the wild indie comedy, Let's Start a Cult. Director Ben Kitnick delivers big-budget comedy vibes with indie values, featuring a talented cast and a unique storyline. With this film, Star Stavros Halkias continues to prove why he's one of the funniest comedians of the moment.

Have you ever been ditched by your buddies? Just downright ghosted by your gals? It's a sucky feeling, one that Chip Harper knows very well. It's the year 2000 and his beloved cult, The Cosmic Dynasty, has "transcended" (aka suicided) without him. He's always been the black sheep of the freaky family, a buffoonish loser, if you will, and it makes for a hilarious character well-suited for Stavros Halkias, one of the funniest and most charismatic comedians of the moment. He's fresh off a great, naturalistic performance in the Netflix series Tires, and...

Dan Licata has come a long way since high school, where he shattered both of his legs by jumping off the roof of a Buffalo church. A ferociously funny comedian, he has written for Saturday Night Live and Joe Pera Talks with You and recently performed stand-up on Late Night with Seth Meyers. His chaotically brilliant new stand-up special For the Boys (available on YouTube) was shot at his high school alma mater in front of a crowd of 15-year-old boys, the perfect audience for his arrested pubescent persona—a blustery Jackass-fueled manchild who desperately wants to connect with the youth but […]

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Dan Licata has come a long way since high school, where he shattered both of his legs by jumping off the roof of a Buffalo church. A ferociously funny comedian, he has written for Saturday Night Live and Joe Pera Talks with You and recently performed stand-up on Late Night with Seth Meyers. His chaotically brilliant new stand-up special For the Boys (available on YouTube) was shot at his high school alma mater in front of a crowd of 15-year-old boys, the perfect audience for his arrested pubescent persona—a blustery Jackass-fueled manchild who desperately wants to connect with the youth but […]

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Raleigh, North Carolina’s Hopscotch Music Festival has revealed their 2024 lineup with St. Vincent, Faye Webster, and Waxahatchee topping the bill.

Taking place from September 5th-7th, the independent music festival will also feature The Jesus Lizard, Jpegmafia, Snail Mail, Badbadnotgood, Guided By Voices, The dBs, Wednesday, Mj Lenderman, Indigo De Souza, Chicano Batman, feeble little horse, Amen Dunes, Hovvdy, Boldy James, Wishy, and more.

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Across three days, Hopscotch features two main stages in Raleigh’s City Plaza and Moore Square and a myriad of club shows throughout the city. Meanwhile, Joe Pera will curate Hopscotch’s comedy stage featuring multiple rising stand-up performers.

Tickets for Hopscotch 2024, including three-day Ga and VIP passes, are now available for purchase.

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Exclusive: Boys Go to Jupiter, the debut feature film from acclaimed indie animator Julian Glander, has finalized its cast ahead of its Tribeca Film Festival premiere in June. Newly added to the lineup are Janeane Garofalo and Demi Adeyujigbe.

The cast also includes Jack Corbett (NPR’s Planet Money TikTok) Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade) Tavi Gevinson (Gossip Girl), Julio Torres (Los Espookys), Sarah Sherman (SNL), Joe Pera (Joe Pera Talks With You), Grace Kuhlenschmidt (The Daily Show), Singer-songwriter Miya Folick, as well as comedians Demi Adeyuijigbe, Chris Fleming, Cole Escola, River L. Ramirez, Eva Victor, and Max Wittert.

Boys Go to Jupiter is billed as a surreal animated coming-of-age story, brought to life in Glander’s trademark 3D visual style and sonic palette. The film follows a week in the life of a teenager in suburban Florida as he hustles his way through a series of bizarre gig economy errands.

It’s an interesting month on HBO and Max this March, as two acclaimed films hit the streamer along with some intriguing original programming.

First up in the movies arena is the streaming debut of Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet. From beloved Paddington director Paul King, the film follows the adventures of a young Willy Wonka as he looks to become the world’s best (and weirdest) chocolatier. Later in March on Max, there’s also Dream Scenario, a highly-regarded comedy boasting Nicolas Cage as Paul Matthews, who suddenly starts appearing in people’s dreams for unknown reasons, and who naturally becomes very famous as a result of this strange phenomena.

Series-wise, the biggest show on Max this month is The Regime. It packs a solid cast, including Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton, and Hugh Grant, and tells the story of “life within the walls of a modern...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Elemental, the Pixar pic directed by Peter Sohn.

Launching with a world premiere as the closing-night film at May’s Cannes Film Festival, Elemental was penned by John Hoberg & Kat Likkel and Brenda Hseuh, based on a story by the writers and Sohn about a fantastical place called Element City, where Fire-, Water-, Earth- and Air-residents live together.

The plot follows the quick-witted and fiery Ember (Leah Lewis), a new arrival to the city whose friendship with go-with-the-flow Wade (Mamoudou Athie) challenges not only her beliefs about the world they live in, but the person she wants to be.

The idea germinated from Sohn’s own experiences; like Ember, he was a second-generation immigrant whose parents moved from Korea to New York City. That starting point helped to form the film’s themes of fitting in to a new place,...

Through its first six seasons, identifying who voiced one of the many aliens, critters, or goobers on Rick and Morty was a pretty easy thing to do. That’s because, in addition to performing as the titular lead characters, co-creator Justin Roiland also embodied most of the show’s strange background players.

Following season 6, however, Roiland was fired from the series due to receiving domestic battery charges (later dropped) and multiple allegations of sexual assault. With Roiland gone, multiple actors have stepped in to fill the roles of Rick, Morty, and the whole other host of characters from the Adult Swim hit’s increasingly large constellation of galaxies, timelines, and multiverses. Even without the personnel change midway through, Rick and Morty‘s cast of voice actors was already pretty confusing beast to make sense of. So let’s try to do exactly that.

Gathered here is a list of (to...

NBC has announced that Chloe Troast is joining the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” the only new comedian rounding out the show’s talent lineup for the coming year.

Troast will make her “SNL” debut on Oct. 14, when the show’s 49th season premieres. The episode will also feature host (and former cast member) Pete Davidson and a musical performance by Ice Spice.

The up-and-coming Troast will star alongside regulars Michael Che, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Bowen Yang and Kenan Thompson, among several others.

Here are 5 things to know about the newest face on “Saturday Night Live”:

Troast is a New Jersey native currently based in Brooklyn

Troast hails from the northern NJ town of Ho-Ho-Kus, and crossed the Hudson River to study at New York University. She attended the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, which she refers to as “basically just an English degree,...

The slow-burn life of Elemental continues. The film landed the top streaming debut for a movie on Disney+ so far this year, the streaming service announced Monday. That follows Elemental‘s box office journey, which began inauspiciously with a record-worst opening for a Pixar movie, only for the film to have strong legs and ultimately earn $484 million globally.

According to Disney, Elemental had 26.4 million views — or, to put it another way, viewing time equivalent to that many complete showings of the movie — worldwide in its first five days of streaming. Like its competitor Netflix, Disney+ divides total viewing time by a title’s run time. For comparison’s sake, Disney touted last week that the live-action The Little Mermaid landed on the service with 16 million views in its first five days. The recent episode-one debut of the Star Wars series Ahsoka brought in 14 million over five days. The company did...

The Disney and Pixar film “Elemental” had a strong start on Disney+, with the film pulling in 26.4 million views in its first five days of streaming availability.

Per Disney, that makes “Elemental” the most-watched movie premiere of the year on the service and among the top 10 movie premieres they have ever had. For context, Disney defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime, just like Netflix recently started doing. The film became available on Disney+ on Sept. 13. Disney also says “Elemental” has become the most viewed animated movie premiere since Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” was released in March 2022, as well as the most-viewed Disney+ movie premiere of all time in Latin America, just ahead of “Turning Red.”

By comparison, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” debuted with 1.625 billion minutes viewed in its first five days of availability on Disney+, which translates to approximately 10.8 million views.

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Disney and Pixar announced on Monday that their animated feature Elemental, starring Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie, has scored the biggest movie premiere of the year to date on Disney+, earning 26.4 million views in its first five days on the service.

The result, calculated by dividing total stream time by runtime, positions the film as one of the Top 10 in the history of the streamer, as far as premieres. The flick directed by Peter Sohn is the most viewed-animated feature to come out of Disney/Pixar since Turning Red was released last March and has also notably bested that Oscar-nominated Domee Shi pic with the biggest Latin American Disney+ movie premiere of all time.

Elemental is set in Element City, where Fire-, Water-, Earth-, and Air-residents live together. The story follows the quick-witted and fiery Ember (Lewis), whose friendship with the sappy and go-with-the-flow Wade (Athie) challenges not only her...

Like most rising star comics today, looking to further build their audience while reaping due rewards for their work, Joe Pera is self-releasing his latest special, Joe Pera: Slow & Steady, taking it directly to YouTube. Taped to a packed house at The Opera House of Williamsburg on June 15th, his new hour will premiere on Friday, October 6th at 8:00pm Et, exclusively on his YouTube channel @JoePeraComedy.

A trailer teasing the special can be found above.

Slow & Steady was independently financed and produced and comes to the internet following the conclusion of Pera’s cult favorite Adult Swim series, Joe Pera Talks With You. Little has been revealed about the subject matter he’ll address, but it will of course be marked by Pera’s singular slow, gentle style as, more or less, the Mister Rogers of comedy.

In Pera’s words, “The ‘Slow & Steady’ special is the culmination...

Features the voices of: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Mason Wertheimer, Joe Pera | Written by John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh | Directed by Peter Sohn

Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), Elemental is the 27th film from animation studio Pixar, whose films are so reliably emotional that they might as well come with a will-make-you-cry guarantee. True to form, Elemental sticks closely to the Pixar formula, mixing a high concept with a strong central metaphor to tell an extremely sweet love story that’s certain to make you shed a tear or two.

Many of Pixar’s films essentially ask, ‘What if such-and-such a thing had feelings and emotions?”, whether it’s toys in Toy Story or emotions themselves in Inside Out (still one of Pixar’s best). This time round, that concept applies to the elements, namely fire, water, earth and air,...

In Elemental fire, water, earth, and air co-exist in Element City, although they live relatively separate lives, with elements never intermingling. However, this all changes when Wade, an emotional water element, and Ember, a quick-tempered fire element, work together to try and save her family's shop. The pair grows closer, and as they spend more time together, unexpected feelings develop that could change the makeup of Element City forever.

Elemental is directed by Peter Sohn and produced by Denise Ream, the team behind The Good Dinosaur. It was co-written by John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, and Brenda Hsueh, with Sohn working closely with them to create the story, pulling from his own life experiences. Elemental stars Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O'Hara, Mason Wertheimer, Joe Pera, and Matt Yang King.

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Screen Rant spoke with composer Thomas Newman about creating music for Pixar's Elemental.

Elemental stars with the four elements of water, air, earth, and fire co-existing peacefully in Element City. However, they live relatively separate lives, with Ember, a hot-headed fire element, and her family running a store in Firetown. When Wade, an overly emotional water element and city inspector, is sucked through the pipes and notes a number of violations, Ember's family legacy is in danger. She and Wade work together to try and save her family's store and slowly grow closer, with feelings developing. Although it breaks a cardinal rule about elements mixing, Wade and Ember's feelings could change Element City forever as opposites attract and create something entirely new.

Director Peter Sohn and producer Denise Ream, the team behind The Good Dinosaur, joined forces once again to bring Pixar's newest movie, Elemental, to the big screen. Elemental was co-written by John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, and Brenda Hsueh, with Sohn...

Elemental examines the age-old question of whether opposites attract. In Element City, air, water, earth, and fire coexist peacefully for the most part, although the elements tend not to mix. Wade, an overly emotional water element, and Ember, a quick-to-anger fire element, become an unlikely duo as they work together to save her family's shop. They slowly learn more about one another, grow closer, and eventually begin to develop feelings for each other. Although this goes against the norm, Ember and Wade's unexpected feelings could change Element City forever.

The team behind The Good Dinosaur teams up once again, with Peter Sohn directing Elemental and Denise Ream serving as his producer. John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, and Brenda Hsueh co-wrote the script for Elemental, but Sohn helped co-create the story with them, with much of it based on his own life experiences. Elemental stars Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen,...

Elemental is set in Element City, where fire, water, air, and earth live together. Although the elements don't mix, Wade, a water element, and Ember, a fire element, become an unlikely pair as they work together to help her family's business. Along the way, they grow closer, slowly falling for one another. Elemental examines the age-old idea that opposites attract, with Wade and Ember potentially changing everything because of their unexpected feelings.

Elemental is directed by Peter Sohn and produced by Denise Ream. Elemental is written by John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, and Brenda Hsueh, although the story hits close to home for Sohn, with much of it based on his own life experiences. Elemental stars Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O'Hara, Mason Wertheimer, Joe Pera, and Matt Yang King.

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On June 16, 2023, Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios released “Elemental,” which features the voices of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Mason Wertheimer, Joe Pera, and Matt Yang King. Directed by Peter Sohn, the film centers on two elements (Ember and Wade) that are literally fire and water, a relationship that is frowned upon in society. The duo works to maintain their relationship despite the expectations of society.

At the 76th Cannes Film Festival, the film was screened for critics to mixed reviews, but those have trended upward upon national release resulting in a Rotten Tomatoes score of 76%. General audiences are more favorable, grading it at 92% fresh. Read our full review round-up below.

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Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture praises the film, stating, “The feature directorial debut of Peter Sohn,...

Just in time for summer, Disney and Pixar are back in their element with their latest animated release! After debuting at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the original animated picture “Elemental” blows into theaters in the U.S. on Friday, June 16.

Directed by Peter Sohn, “Elemental” brings audiences to Element City, where a host of elements — air, earth, water, and fire — live and work. Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie lead the voice cast as Ember Lumen and Wade Ripple, respectively. The fiery and quick-witted Ember has trouble controlling her explosive temper and will be extinguished if she is touched by water.

This becomes a point of contention after one day when her rage causes a water pipe in her family’s convenience store to break, summoning Wade, a fun and sappy water element health inspector who threatens to shut down the shop. Ember must venture outside of her comfort...

Disney and Pixar’s Elemental opens in theaters on June 16. Check out the new trailer celebrating Pixar Animation Studios’ New Short “Carl’s Date”.

The short opens June 16 exclusively in theaters in front of the film. Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner Bob Peterson and produced by Kim Collins, “Carl’s Date” goes home with Carl Fredricksen (voice of Ed Asner) and his lovable talking dog, Dug (voice of Peterson), who were introduced in Pixar’s Oscar®-winning feature “Up.” Moviegoers will catch up with Carl as he reluctantly agrees to go on a date with a lady friend—but admittedly has no idea how dating works these days. Ever the helpful friend, Dug steps in to calm Carl’s pre-date jitters and offer some tried-and-true tips for making friends—if you’re a dog.

“Elemental” is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City,...

Enter the contest below for the chance to win a pair of passes to attend an advance screening of Elemental on Wednesday, June 14th at 7:00pm at the Mjr Troy!

Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.

About The Film Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Mason Wertheimer, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Shila Ommi. Ronnie del Carmen, Joe Pera Director: Peter Sohn Screenplay: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh Producer: Denise Ream

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The beloved animation studio Pixar has revealed a new look at their upcoming rom-com drama, Elemental, courtesy of a stunning 4Dx poster. This latest look at Elemental puts main characters Ember and Wade at its center, with the pair attempting to navigate their way around Element City, a metropolis inhabited by personifications of the four main elements, fire, water, earth, and air.

4Dx is arguably the best way to see Elemental, considering it gets viewers to viscerally experience the actual elements themselves. You can check out the new Elemental 4Dx poster below and learn more about the film and the format.

Elemental is all set to be led by Leah Lewis as Ember Lumen and Mamoudou Athie as Wade Ripple, with the duo of opposing elements growing closer as the story progresses as they slowly discover how much they actually have in common.

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Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) and Wade Ripple (Mamoudou Athie) show off the shared beauty of their unique abilities in a new official clip from Disney and Pixar's upcoming animated feature Elemental.

Disney and Pixar shared a fresh look at Elemental ahead of the film's premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival tomorrow, May 27. The clip begins with Ember, a fire elemental, demonstrating her ability to change the color of her flame body depending on what kind of mineral she's standing on. This encourages Wade to show off a trick of his own, with the water elemental skimming along a pond in order to create a similarly multicolored rainbow.

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Ember and Wade show off their skills in a new scene from Pixar's #Elemental ahead of the film's debut at #Cannes2023 pic.twitter.com/Tm8m9XQa3F — The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 26, 2023 Earth,...

The wonderful folks at Pixar Animation are ready to unleash their 27th feature with the imaginative "Elemental." Drawing inspiration from director Peter Sohn's youth growing up as a second-generation immigrant in New York City, the film is a celebration of cultural and ethnic diversity, wrapped in a heartwarming romantic comedy. The story is said to be inspired by films like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "Moonstruck," and "Amélie," but is presented in a way that appeals to audiences of all ages.

"Elemental" is also one of Pixar's most ambitious films to date, with producer Denise Ream telling Total Film Magazine, "We knew it was going to be hard. We didn't know it was going to be as hard as it was." As all of the characters are different elements, they all move in entirely different ways. Considering the film showcases an entire city of different elemental folk interacting with one another,...

Disney previewed 20 minutes of Pixar’s Elemental on Wednesday at CinemaCon, ahead of its May 27 world premiere at Cannes and June 16 theatrical release.

Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), produced by Denise Ream and exec produced by Pete Docter, Elemental is set in Element City, where fire, water, land and air residents live together. Its themes include connection, celebrating differences, and finding your place in the world.

The story follows Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman whose friendship with a sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in, where “elements don’t mix.” Leah Lewis is the voice of Ember; Mamoudou Athie voices Wade.

The footage, screened in 3D, begins as various elements arrive by boat and sub to Element City. On arrival, Ember’s parents find a room to rent and welcome a baby Ember into the world. They opens...

Pixar Animation Studios returns to the globally revered Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of its all-new original feature film Elemental on May 27, ahead of its theatrical release on June 16. Debuting out of competition as the closing film of the 76th edition of the festival, Elemental is the fourth film from the storied studio to be selected for the event and joins previous favorites Up, Inside Out, and Soul.

Set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land-, and air-residents live together. Elemental introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.

Pete Docter, Pixar’s chief creative officer, said this year’s return to Cannes is particularly special for the studio. “As we all emerge from our pandemic cocoons and come together in story rooms, animation dailies and impromptu brainstorming sessions,...

The 76th Cannes Film Festival announced this morning that its closing night film in, oh, just about five weeks will be Pixar’s latest innovative animated film, “Elemental.” The movie is directed by Peter Sohn, whose only other feature credit as director is 2015’s “The Good Dinosaur.” Sohn has been a part of Pixar, working in some capacity as an animator or story developer on most of their titles, going back to 2003. Job security at that shop!

“Elemental”’s premise is a forbidden love between anthropomorphic representations of Fire and Water in Element City. How this will make any kind of logical sense is beyond me, but have you seen how much money the “Cars” franchise has earned? I think it’s best not to worry too much about realism and, following water’s lead, go with the flow.

The voice cast is led by Leah Lewis of “The Half of It...

Disney and Pixar’s Elemental — the animated pic inspired by director Peter Sohn’s childhood in New York and the basic elements of fire, water, land and air — is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

The animated movie will bow out of competition ahead of a release in theaters on June 16 in the U.S. and on June 21 in France. Elemental is the fourth feature film from Pixar Animation Studios to be presented in Cannes after Up, Inside Out and Soul, which was an official selection for the cancelled 2020 edition due to the pandemic.

Sohn, producer Denise Ream and members of the voice cast will walk up the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals on May 27 to debut Elemental. The Pixar pic journeys alongside an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together.

Sohn directed The Good Dinosaur...

The 2023 Cannes Film Festival has all the elements of global appeal.

After previously announcing controversial film “Jeanne du Barry” as the opening night selection, Disney/Pixar’s “Elemental” has been revealed as the closing night film. The Peter Sohn-directed feature is Pixar’s 27th film, and its world premiere will take place at 2023 Cannes on May 27, playing out of competition.

“Elemental” marks the fourth Pixar film to be selected for a Cannes premiere, following “Up,” “Inside Out,” and “Soul.” The feature also boasts an opening short film titled “Carl’s Date,” tied to the “Up” universe.

The film is set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis), a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade (voiced by Mamoudou Athie) challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.

Elemental Image: Disney/Pixar If Pixar can’t be the first, they can at least be the latest to compare forbidden love to fire and water. In a new trailer for the next Disney/Pixar animated spectacle Elemental, the metaphor goes glossily literal, introducing viewers to Element City, where fire,...

Ready to visit the latest crazy world created by Pixar Animation Studio? Because you’ll do just that in the trailer for Pixar’s latest, “Elemental,” which you can watch above.

From the studio that brought toys to life, populated a world full of monsters and took you under the sea, “Elemental” explores what a vibrant metropolis would be if that metropolis was populated exclusively by anthropomorphic elements. The story follows a young fire woman named Ember (Leah Lewis) who falls in love with a water man named Wade (Mamoudou Athie). Sure, opposites attract, but when you’re made out of those materials, how does that even work?

Earlier this week, select press was shown about 20 minutes of footage from the new movie, which gave a much better sense of the characters and the larger world, and provided greater context in terms of how personal this story was to director Peter Sohn,...

It’s all elemental when Disney’s Pixar releases another classic feature.

“Elemental” is an upcoming animated ensemble comedy where characters are made out of the earth’s elements like air, fire, water, and dirt. A woman made of fire (Leah Lewis) and a man made of water (Mamoudou Athie) find out that their differences aren’t so different after all, despite not being able to touch.

Disney and Pixar’s latest is an original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember (Lewis), a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade (Athie) challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.

The voice cast also includes Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Mason Wertheimer, and Joe Pera.

Peter Sohn directs from a script by John Hoberg, Kat Likkel,...

"I've been trying to fill my father's shoes... but I never once asked what I wanted to do." Pixar has unveiled the full-length official trailer for their latest movie, Elemental, opening in theaters nationwide (yay!) this summer in June. This movie is set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in. The voice cast features Leah Lewis as Ember, and Mamoudou Athie (one of my favorite actors) as Wade. From the director of The Good Dinosaur, with Pete Docter helping produce at Pixar Studios in Emeryville. Joining the voice cast are Ronnie del Carmen as Ember's soon-to-be retired dad, Bernie; Shila Ommi as Ember's love-seeking mom, Cinder; Wendi McLendon-Covey as Wade's stormy and Air-Ball-loving boss, Gale; Catherine O'Hara as Wade's welcoming mom,...

If you’re into hilarious TV shows, you’ll find “Joe Pera Talks With You” riveting and memorable. This comedy television series is simple and wholesome. No wonder it garnered a rating of 8.9 out of 10 on IMDb. And on Google, it boasts an impressive 4.7-star rating. Pundits loved the series for its unique tone and the lack of irony or cynicism in what Joe says.

In this article, you’ll learn about the television series seasons and episodes, Joe’s role in the show, the best places to watch it, and the filming location. On top of that, we talk about what you can expect from BuddyTV, a popular entertainment news site.

Where Can You Catch “Joe Pera Talks With You?”

Right now, you can catch the show’s 32 episodes on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, iTunes, and Google Play. But it’s not on Netflix yet. BuddyTV will...

Joe Pera Talks With You has been cancelled at Adult Swim so there will not be a fourth season of the comedy series. Per Deadline, Pera revealed the news in his email newsletter. The series began in 2018 with a series of 10 11-minute shorts. The second season of 13 episodes was released in 2019 and the final season of nine installments debuted in 2021.

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Parquet Courts have released the video for their Sympathy for Life track, “Marathon of Anger,” the first in a series of clips set to drop in the lead up to the wide release of their film project, Sympathy for Life, Visualized.

The “Marathon of Anger” clip was directed by Mara Palena, who complements the Talking Heads-esque protest anthem with an abstract collage that flits between city skylines, dance parties, moving portraits, and natural landscapes.

Following “Marathon of Anger,” Parquet Courts will release a new music video each day up until Sympathy for Life,...

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Where to Watch “Joe Pera Talks with You”: Adult Swim (the first two seasons are also available to stream on HBO Max)

Season 3 of “Joe Pera Talks with You,” released in 2021, is set in 2018. It’s not that this is a show driven by nostalgia for a world three years gone by. It’s that fully appreciating everything that’s around you just takes a different pace.

The opening episodes of the show introduced Joe Pera (Joe Pera) as a tour guide of sorts through the points of interest in his northern Michigan surroundings. That season brings as much discovery for Joe as he tries to create for his audience through the cracks in the fourth wall. (“Joe Pera Reads You the Church Announcements” is still one of the purest TV delights of the past decade.)

Season 2 deepened the show’s surrounding roster,...

Photo: Joe Pera Introduction ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ isn’t like anything else on Adult Swim. Adult Swim shows are usually associated with the words “weird”, “raunchy”, and the occasional “gory'' thanks to ‘Robot Chicken’. ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’, on the other hand, is wholesome, loving, and simple. Adult Swim prides itself on being subversive and Joe Pera’s show subverts the expectations that one has when they turn on the often disturbing channel. ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ is back for a third season and after the awful past two years that we have experienced, Pera’s wholesome outlook on life is much needed. Related article: Exclusive: 'Dune' Full Commentary, Reactions, Making Of - Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac Related article: 'No Time to Die' Full Commentary, Behind the Scenes & Reactions, Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Bond Related article: 'No Time to Die...

Tor Books & Den of Geek Present:

TorCon 2021

In partnership with Tor Books, we are thrilled to announce the return of TorCon, a virtual convention launched in 2020 to bring the entertainment and excitement of live book conventions into the virtual space. From Thursday, June 10 through Sunday, June 13, Tor Books, Forge Books, Tordotcom Publishing, Tor Teen, and Nightfire are presenting ten panels featuring over 30 of your favorite authors in conversation with each other—and with you!

Join authors including James Rollins, Charlie Jane Anders, Joe Pera, Catriona Ward, Gillian Flynn, Tj Klune, Alix E. Harrow, Seanan McGuire, Nghi Vo, and many more for four days of pure geekery, exclusive reveals, sneak peeks, giveaways, and more… all from the comfort of your own home!

Visit the TorCon Bookstore here.

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Stock footage can be an important artistic tool. From its use as the calming background to Joe Pera’s musings or fodder for unnerving Adult Swim shorts to its ability to stand in for the celebrity actors and lavish effects of Hollywood movies, stock art is capable of being used for more than just a good way to find…...

The first time I watched The Eric Andre Show, I felt like all of the flimsy talk show sets after Eric Andre is done with them: Destroyed. I was very familiar with Adult Swim's general brand of anarchist, deconstructive, and overall wild comedy (Joe Pera excluded), but Andre takes it to another level with his absolute, and literal, destruction of the form. Blending talk show tropes, variety show gags, and some of the gnarliest hidden-camera stunts you'll ever see into a wild, 11-minute package, The Eric Andre Show reaches bonkers heights of surreal comedy and then …...

Joe Pera Talks With You is one of the more recent entries in Adult Swim's late-night lineup of quietly absurd comedy. While it's not as out there as Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, it seems like it could be the earnest midwestern mumblecore heir to the throne.

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The show follows comedian Joe Pera playing a fictionalized version of himself in a Review meets Mister Rogers' Neighborhood style format with sprinkles of Nathan for You, focusing on a random subject for each episode. Below, we look at Joe Pera Talks With You's 10 Best Episodes, Ranked According To IMDb.

Adult Swim's episodic comedy series Joe Pera Talks With You has grown in popularity over the past year. It follows Comedian Joe Pera who portrays a fictionalized version of himself where he is a kind and humorous middle-school choir teacher with a specific set of passions that he likes to explore.

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There are several other hilarious characters in the Michigan Upper Peninsula setting that viewers get to meet through Joe Pera's perspective. Two seasons of the show have aired so far, with each being met with critical acclaim. The following are a few facts about Joe Pera Talks With You that viewers didn't know,...

If you aren't familiar with the work of Joe Pera, I highly encourage you to take a deep dive. Whether in his peerless stand up comedy or his wonderful Adult Swim show Joe Pera Talks with You, Pera's style is like no other voice working in comedy today. In an era of comedy creation dominated by high energy, intense filmmaking, and a gurgling dark underbelly (i.e. every other Adult Swim show), Pera cuts through the noise by a lack of noise. The first thing you'll notice is his voice — and I mean his literal speaking voice. …...

A New Yorker his early ’30s, Joe Pera has risen to critical acclaim over the last number of years, on the strength of a comedic voice that is all his own.

A viral sensation known for his slow-moving, subdued delivery and his accompanying series of sweaters, Pera has been building out a niche comedic world for years, presenting the most fully realized version of it yet with the Adult Swim short-form series Joe Pera Talks with You.

Featuring turns from a number of Pera’s longtime creative partners, including Connor O’Malley, the series centers on a fictionalized version of the comedian, who is teaching choir at a middle school in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Over the course of each episode, Pera speaks directly to the audience about such topics as beans, grocery stores and internet videos, somehow rendering mundane, everyday things life-affirming, while allowing viewers to see them with fresh eyes.

One of the things about watching Joe Pera’s material—whether it’s the original Joe Pera Talks You To Sleep, or his Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks With You—is that it makes you wonder why more (all?) TV isn’t like this: Funny, soothing, and deeply human. It’s an aesthetic that posits comfort as one of the best things…...