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Disney+ subscribers are rediscovering Elemental. Two years after its theatrical run, the animated movie is back on the streaming charts, along with another fan-favorite Pixar flick.

Per FlixPatrol, as of July 7, Elemental is No. 10 on Disney+'s Top Movies Worldwide list, with Ratatouille a few spots higher at No. 6. The Pixar movie's return to streaming dominance comes almost two years after it became the most-watched movie debut on Disney+ of 2023 with 26.4 million views over its first five days on the service. At the time, The Walt Disney Company also reported that Elemental was among Disney+'s Top 10 movie premieres of all time and was the most-viewed animated movie premiere since Turning Red, another Pixar title, dropped onto the streamer in March 2022.

Directed by Peter Sohn, Elemental is set in Element City, where Fire-, Water-, Earth-, and Air-residents live together, following "the quick-witted and fiery Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis), whose...

Deadline’s annual Read the Screenplay series, which celebrates the craft of scriptwriting by offering exclusive access to the buzziest movie scripts of awards season, kicks off its latest edition with Inside Out 2. Pixar and Disney’s sequel is the Envy of the box office in 2024, grossing $1.698 billion globally to become the year’s highest-grossing movie to date.

Meg LeFauve, one of the writers on 2015’s Inside Out, which went on to nab an Original Screenplay Oscar nomination and won for Best Animated Feature, returned to pen the sequel with Dave Holstein, based on an original story by LeFauve and Kelsey Mann. Mann directed, taking the reins from the original’s co-directors and her fellow co-writers Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen.

The sequel’s script picked up a now 13-year-old Riley (the voice of Kensington Tallman), who is experiencing a parade of new emotions that play out in her brain’s headquarters.

Inside Out gets a new fan-made, live-action concept trailer, imagining Sadie Sink and Jenna Ortega in lead roles. Released in 2015, Inside Out hails from directors Pete Doctor and Ronnie Del Carmen, with a story that follows Riley and her various emotions most notably Amy Poehler's Joy as she moves to a city and new school. After the first film was a major hit with audiences and critics alike, Riley's story continued in Disney's Inside Out 2, which hit theaters earlier this summer and introduced a handful of new animated characters.

Multiverse of Movies now imagines what Inside Out would look like if it made the jump to live-action with an AI-generated concept trailer. The trailer features a mix of new and familiar cast members, with some members of the franchise's voice cast becoming live-action versions of their animated characters. Bill Hader, for example, who voices Fear, is imagined as...

The most expensive animated movies of all time are all from the 2010s or later, suggesting that inflation is at least part of rising costs. However, some of the iconic animated movies that changed animation forever required a larger budget to account for the new technologies the movie's team pioneered. Still, it would appear that most animators have a ceiling when it comes to their budget, even when their movies are regularly successful.

Pixar accounts for most of the most expensive animated movies, but never spends more than $200 million. The best Pixar movies are proof enough that the studio knows what it is doing, and has reason enough to be confident in spending the extra money or sticking to a budget. However, when working with the material of two of the best Disney movies of all time, executives decided to dish out even more money to make sure the movie was made correctly.

Inside Out 3 is not confirmed yet, but Pixar is exploring ideas for the next installment due to the success of the franchise. Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter is considering the direction of the potential threequel, focusing on unexplored concepts. Despite no official production start, Pixar hopes to delve deeper into the vast world of emotions.

While Inside Out 3 is not officially confirmed, Pixar is workshopping some ideas for the threequel. Inside Out 2 is still in theaters and proved to be a dominating force at the box office this summer. It has earned over $1.6 billion already and is poised to continue earning for Disney once it comes to Disney+. Pixar is already working on the four-episode Dream Productions spin-off, but Inside Out 3's confirmation continues to be a subject of anticipation.

While not wholly admitting that the threequel will be entering production, Pixar's Chief Creative Officer, Pete Docter, has been considering the next steps.

Elemental's surprising success paved the way for Inside Out 2's record-breaking box office run despite a lackluster opening weekend. Pixar learned from Elemental's comeback to make Inside Out 2 a massive hit by focusing on a clearer core concept and strong trailers. While sequels are inevitable, Pixar still needs to prioritize original movies like Elemental to maintain its unique storytelling appeal.

Pixar must be thrilled to see Inside Out 2 dominate the box office and continuously break records, but the studio must not forget about its $496 million success from the previous year. After the Covid-19 pandemic and Disney's habits made audiences more used to seeing Pixar's animated movies at home, questions about their future at the box office became much larger. Disappointing results for Onward and Lightyear, coupled with Turning Red, Soul, and Luca going straight to Disney+, had alarm bells sounding when Elemental's opening weekend disappointed...

“Inside Out 2” roared into cinema in June, becoming Pixar’s highest-grossing film in a debut weekend of all time, while its current worldwide haul at this time of writing stands at just over one billion.

The first movie — one of the most ingenious films of this century — took audiences inside the head of young Riley as she navigated a move to a new city while her emotions tried to guide her through the move in her head. This second film brings back those emotions as Riley goes through her teenage years. But Joy and Sadness and the gang have to deal with several new emotions in headquarters, including Anxiety, Embarrassment, and Ennui.

But while the film marches towards $1 billion at the box office, could it also be marching towards awards glory? Well, animated flicks don’t get the justice they deserve when it comes to the Academy Awards. So often,...

Pixar has a knack for making stories about the turbulence of adolescence universally relatable. Their latest offering, the splendid sequel to 2015’s Inside Out, appropriately titled Inside Out 2 doesn’t necessarily continue the narrative of the first film, more so than it continues the development of the film’s protagonist.

Following the events of the first film – wherein young Riley found herself and her family uprooted from their Midwest home and relocated to San Francisco – Inside Out 2 picks up with Riley rapidly approaching the next big challenge of her life – puberty.

As the film begins, Riley and her friends are preparing to head to a hockey camp in preparation for attending a new high school as well as possibly making the school’s hockey team. Initially, Riley and her friends, as well as the core emotions within her head – Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black...

The scope of imagination showcased in Pixar’s animated movie oeuvre is boundless, vivid, and experimentative. Even with younger minds as their target audience, the movies created by Pixar often tend to be philosophically and emotionally vibrant, defying the limitations of the genre in the most unique ways. After years of enchanting viewers with the emotional complexities of human, non-human, and even inanimate characters, Pixar went even further by crafting a story about emotional expression and personifications of emotions themselves, as shown beautifully in their much-loved animated release of 2015, Inside Out.

Director Pete Docter conceptualized the movie as he observed the coming-of-age journey of his own daughter, imbuing a deeply personal note to his creation in the process. To maintain a certain level of authenticity in portraying the inner trappings of the psyche, he and co-director Ronnie del Carmen even sought help from medical professionals—no wonder the audience found...

There's absolutely no doubt that Pixar has created some of the best animated films of all time. Having everything from imaginative stories and compelling characters to beautiful cinematography and iconic moments, viewers have almost never been disappointed by their work. Every single one of Pixar's films are a testament to the immense creativity the company's personnel possess.

Generally speaking, a script can make or break a movie. What Pixar has done really well is write quality scripts that have all a trademark wit and cleverness. Oftentimes, especially when regarding content for all ages, this requires some weirder lines.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on May 24, 2024: In anticipation of Inside Out 2, jump back into the weirder side of Pixar, including its best and most absurd quotes taken out of context.

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Exclusive: Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 came on tracking this Am and sources are telling us it’s bound to be the highest opening at the domestic box office year-to-date, inching out Dune Part Two ($82.5M) and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire ($80M) with a 3-day between $80M-$85M. Inside Out 2 opens over the Pixar tried-and-true Fathers Day weekend of June 14-16.

That’s a big comeback for Pixar in the post Covid era following the opening weekends of last summer’s Elemental ($29.6M) and 2022’s Toy Story spinoff Lightyear ($50.5M).

Inside Out 2 is trending with teen girls and moms. The sequel to the 2015 pic brings viewers back into the mind of the now-teenage Riley (Kensington Tallman) as her emotions try to keep up with her new feelings. While Riley still has her emotions of...

Disney is closing out CinemaCon 2024 with extended looks at upcoming films, including Pixar’s highly anticipated sequel, Inside Out 2. Coincidentally, I visited Pixar Studios at the end of March for an in-depth look at the emotionally driven sequel, which finds audiences getting reacquainted with Riley, the same young woman who let us walk around inside her head in the Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen original in 2015.

During Disney’s CinemaCon panel, the Mouse House screened 35 emotional minutes of Inside Out 2 for the crowd. JoBlo’s editor-in-chief, Chris Bumbray, was in the crowd, detailing elements of the preview for us to share.

This Portion Of The Article Contains Plot Spoilers For Pixar’S Inside Out 2:

Riley (Kensington Tallman), the central character of 2015’s Inside Out, returns for the sequel. She’s entering her “terrible teens,” and the emotions inside her head -Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith...

A critically praised and commercially successful Pixar movie, Coco was all the talk back in 2017. Inspired by the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, it was particularly praised for its respect and representation of Mexican culture as well as its animation, music, voice acting, and impactful story.

Movie fans can be eternally happy for their beloved film to be universally acclaimed and admired. Critics have praised Coco heavily, and it's quickly become a household name. Yet, this can make some people long to enjoy a similar movie in atmosphere, premise, or even just the characters. Luckily, there are other great movies similar to Coco.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on March 12, 2024: Seven years after its release, Coco is still celebrated as one of Pixar's best films in recent history. Viewers who enjoyed the animated endeavor into the underworld can chase the same high with these similar films.

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Emotions are high this afternoon as Pixar debuts a full Inside Out 2 trailer, teasing more of the plot while introducing several new elements to Riley’s psyche. The new trailer arrived just as Pixar Studios invited us to visit their studio later this month to explore Pixar’s highly-anticipated sequel to Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen’s 2015 animated original. I’ll be representing JoBlo during the event and could not be more excited! It’s been a dream of mine to visit Pixar Studios for decades. Make sure you visit the site closer to the film’s release as I report what I saw and share more details about the upcoming sequel!

Kelsey Mann makes her feature directorial debut with Inside Out 2, which includes a script by Meg LeFauve. Pixar announced Inside Out 2 in 2022 at Disney’s D23 Expo. The sequel will wreak havoc on your emotions...

In retrospect, it only becomes harder and harder to believe that any of us made it out of our awkward teenage years (relatively) unscathed with our dignity (relatively) intact. Every new environment during this tumultuous time comes with a whole assortment of anxiety-inducing social interactions, new fears and pressures we didn't even know existed before, and the ever-present threat of embarrassing ourselves in ways that will randomly keep us up at night decades down the line. Honestly, just reliving all of my own memories while typing this out makes me want to run to the nearest therapist's office. Look at what I put myself through just for the sake of bringing the newest movie news to your devices, people!

For better or worse, viewers better start preparing themselves for the emotional rollercoaster that will undoubtedly be "Inside Out 2," the sequel to the hit 2015 Pixar movie. Almost a decade ago,...

Leah Lewis, the star of Pixar's Elemental, hopes a sequel is made. Pixar's Elemental had a surprising box office comeback, earning $496 million globally despite its weak start. Though Lewis is hopeful that Elemental 2 will happen, she has not heard anything yet.

Elemental 2's chances get a hopeful response from Leah Lewis after the Pixar movie's $496 million box office comeback. The animated film explores the budding relationship between Ember Lumen (Lewis) and Wade Ripple (Mamoudou Athie), two residents of Element City who attempt to save the former's convenience store, despite pre-existing beliefs about fire and water. Along with Lewis and Athie, the voice cast of Elemental includes Ronnie Del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Catherine O'Hara, Mason Wertheimer, and Wendi McLendon-Covey. After its disappointing opening weekend in 2023, Elemental maintained a strong hold at the box office, but a sequel hasn't been announced.

In a recent interview with The Direct, Lewis revealed her...

Is anyone else hearing things or are those just the voices in my head? For once, this isn't a sign of serious psychological problems, but simply another tease for one of Pixar Studios' most highly-anticipated sequels yet. I can still remember that rainy Saturday during the summer of 2015 while I was babysitting my little cousins and figured I'd surprise them with an impromptu trip to the theaters to see "Inside Out." Unfortunately, it turned out that everybody had the same idea, and all the showings were already sold out ... so we ended up settling for "Minions" instead. But don't worry, this story has a happy ending since we eventually got around to seeing the brilliant emotional rollercoaster and all agreed that it was better than "Minions" inadvertently confirming some discomfiting connections to Adolf Hitler.

In any case, we're finally getting a follow-up to one of Pixar's best original movies...

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,...

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Quick Answer: Stream the animated feature on Disney+ or rent/buy the film on Amazon Prime Video.

Elemental, the Disney/Pixar hit featuring a slow-burning romance (literally) between elemental star-crossed lovers is now available to stream online. Even though the animated feature dropped in theaters in June, you can watch from home on Disney+.

Elemental also marks the first Pixar film to focus on romance at the heart of its story.

Fantasy is a genre that is often hard done by the awards groups, particularly the academy. Occasionally, the odd masterpiece such as Peter Jackson‘s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which won 17 Oscars, will break their barrier but, in general, the genre doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Even “Harry Potter” failed to earn an Oscar win and was never nominated in any above-the-line category.

However, Andrew Haigh‘s “All of Us Strangers” is poised to be the next fantastical film that makes the academy’s voters sit up and take notice. Part romance, part ghost story, the film is loosely based on Taichi Yamada‘s 1987 novel “Strangers.” The story follows Andrew Scott‘s Adam as a writer struggling with his latest project who forms a relationship with Paul Mescal‘s Harry. As their relationship progresses, Adam finds himself drawn to his past and visits his hometown only...

Please keep your hands and feet inside the cart at all times as we prepare to ride another roller coaster of emotions with Pixar‘s Inside Out 2! Debuting the day after the actors’ guild reached a tentative agreement to end the ongoing actors’ strike, an Inside Out 2 teaser trailer reminds audiences how much the 2015 animated original added to their therapy bills.

Amy Poehler (Joy), Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Mindy Kaling (Disgust), Bill Hader (Fear), and Lewis Black (Anger) played the emotions in 2015’s Inside Out. However, Hader and Kaling won’t be returning for the sequel, with Tony Hale and Liza Lapira replacing them, respectively. The Inside Out 2 teaser introduces a new emotion to the mix, Anxiety, voiced by Stranger Things and Asteroid City star Maya Hawke. The first film revolves around 11-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) and the five emotions creating whirlwinds inside her developing brain.

While preparing...

Pixar is ready to play some mind games again.

On Thursday, Disney released the first teaser for the forthcoming animated sequel, which introduces a new emotion to the mix of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust: Anxiety, voiced by “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke.

For those who don’t recall the 2015 hit – an Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature and, for many Pixar fans, one of the best films the studio has ever done – “Inside Out” is about the emotions inside the head of a young girl named Riley, who moves from Minnesota to San Francisco after her parents relocate. The high-concept feature, which also received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, mainly focused on how the emotions of Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler) and Sadness (voiced by Phyllis Smith) learned to coexist together as a young child came of age. Other emotions were voiced by Lewis Black (Anger...

How fitting is it that on the morning after the official end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, one of the first new trailers we get is from a movie about unleashing all sorts of heightened emotions? This moment of perfectly-timed collective catharsis comes courtesy of Pixar, as the animation studio has released our initial look at one of their most highly-anticipated sequels ever: "Inside Out 2." The 2015 original left nary a dry eye in the room after introducing the world to young Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) and the torrent of preadolescent feelings swirling around her head. And just when we thought we could start to recover from what happened to the lovable Bing Bong (Richard Kind), they've gone ahead with a sequel that's sure to be another emotional roller coaster.

The twist this time around, of course, will be the introduction of a whole new set of emotions to coincide with Riley...

Elemental heats up the streaming charts as the Pixar animated film finds strong success to kick off its Disney+ run.

Per Comicbook.com, newly-released statistics from Nielsen confirmed that Elemental became the most-viewed movie across streaming services on Disney+. Tracking streaming viewership between Sept. 18-24, the first full week after Elemental's debut via Disney's streaming service on Sept. 13, Nielsen revealed Elemental attracted over 1.3 billion viewing minutes, comfortably the most of any film on digital. Only the Netflix drama series, Suits, had more views during that time when including shows.

Related: Elemental's Slow Burn Success Could Change Disney and Pixar's Future

Elemental has also set some new marks for Disney+ as it delivered the best opening week of streaming viewership for any title released on the platform in 2023, beating The Little Mermaid. Additionally, Elemental had the biggest viewership for any animated film on Disney+ since Turning Red. The romantic comedy-drama...

Disney+ Releases “Loki” Season 2 Featurette

Disney+ has dropped a brand-new featurette for the highly anticipated second season of Marvel Studios’ “Loki,” led by Tom Hiddleston.

Watch the “Loki” Season 2 featurette below:

Season 2, which debuts Oct. 5 exclusively on the Disney streamer, will pick up as Loki finds himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority. Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15, and a team of characters old and new, the God of Mischief must navigate “an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes, and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose.”

Hiddleston stars opposite Sophia Di Martino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Rafael Casal, Tara Strong, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, and Neil Ellice. Season 2 will also feature Ke Huy Quan, Owen Wilson, and more.

The six-episode Season 2 will premiere on Disney+ at 6:00 p.m.

Elemental has continued to exceed expectations by becoming the most-watched movie debut on Disney+ this year.

According to The Walt Disney Company, the Disney/Pixar movie was viewed 26.4 million times in its first five days on the streaming platform. This makes Elemental the most-watched movie premiere of 2023 on Disney+, beating the previous record holder -- the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid -- by over 10 million views. Elemental is also among Disney+'s Top 10 movie premieres of all time and is the most viewed animated movie premiere since Disney and Pixar's Turning Red was released in March 2022. It is important to note that Disney defines a view as "total stream time divided by runtime."

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Directed by Peter Sohn, Elemental is set in Element City, where Fire-, Water-, Earth-, and Air-residents live together. The animated film follows "the quick-witted and fiery...

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...

Ember and Wade are in their early to mid-20s in Elemental, as they are old enough to have full-time jobs but are still figuring out their identities. Mamoudou Athie, the voice actor for Wade, is 35, and Leah Lewis, the voice actor for Ember, is 26, but they can manipulate their voices to match the characters' tones and pitches. If Elemental gets a sequel, Ember and Wade's next adventures could involve settling down, Ember's glass-making becoming successful, or starting a family, all based on their self-acceptance and love as young adults.

Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) and Wade Ripple (Mamoudou Athie) are the two element-crossed lovers at the heart of Elemental, the Pixar film that has received a resurgence in popularity on streaming, and inspired fans to wonder how old the two elements really are. In the world of Elemental, Air, Water, Fire, and Earth may all live in Element City, but the elements shoudn't mix,...

Pixar's animated comedy-drama, Elemental, sets its Disney+ premiere date after elevating at the box office following a much-publicized slow start.

Per Screen Rant, Elemental will be released via Disney+ on Sept. 13, just under two months after the film's theatrical release in the United States. Additionally, a making-of documentary titled Good Chemistry: The Making of Elemental will premiere simultaneously to give audiences a behind-the-scenes look at how the movie was made.

Related: How Elemental Sets Up a Sequel

Elemental's Disney+ debut comes amid a rollercoaster cinematic run for the highly-anticipated Pixar title, which originally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. After being projected to make up to $40 million domestically during its opening weekend, which saw the film released alongside The Flash and The Blackening, Elemental ended up making $29.5 million. The underwhelming premiere weekend tally was the second-lowest of all time for a Pixar film behind 1995's Toy Story,...

When discussing the Cinderella-esque box-office story of Elemental, which has managed to climb back up in ticket purchases, Pixar’s president was asked if he thought its movies were too sophisticated for kids.

Speaking to Variety, Jim Morris, who has been the president of Pixar since 2014, explained the studio’s approach to making films that balance big ideas and accessibility to all age groups. "We always think about those things. I’m often surprised at how astute kids are at figuring out bigger ideas. Historically, our films have dealt with more sophisticated themes," Morris said. "We’ve tried to make them accessible to everyone in the audience. It’s something we’re constantly working on. We make a certain kind of film that does have ideas in it. We don’t want to stop doing that. But we obviously want audiences to go to theaters for our films."

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Pixar's latest adventure Elemental is getting a special Steelbook edition exclusive to Best Buy, featuring bonus features and behind-the-scenes looks. The movie centers on the romance between fire element Ember and water element Wade as they navigate their society's prejudices. Despite initial struggles at the box office, Elemental had a successful run and is a promising sign for Pixar's original projects.

Pixar's latest adventure Elemental is coming home in an exciting new Best Buy Steelbook celebrating the movie's central romance. Helmed by Pixar vet Peter Sohn and based on a story idea he pitched to the iconic animation studio, the movie is set in a world populated by anthropomorphic elements of nature and centers on fire element Ember and water element Wade as they fall in love and attempt to overcome the differences in their society, including her bigoted father. Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie lead the Elemental cast alongside Ronnie del Carmen,...

Not everyone fancies the idea of staying indoors and streaming their favorite movies. Some of us like oversized silver screens, super amplified sounds, and a dark room to enjoy our favorite movies and actors. The experience is immersive and often memorable when enjoyed by a romantic other or family. Whatever your plans for the summer are, we hope you’ve got some time to go to the movies and enjoy your favorite titles.

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This July, we have compiled a list of the top 10 most popular movies in theaters. And there are some blockbusters in the mix. We have no doubt you are in for a remarkable cinema experience this summer.

10 ‘Elemental’ (2023)

IMDb: 7.1/10 19K | Popularity: 18 | Metascore: 58

Duration: 1h 41m | Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Director: Peter Sohn

Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen

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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,...

There are four classical elements of nature. Air, earth, fire, water. That's by some schemes anyway, but it'll do. All of them are represented here, to mixed effect. There are an infinite number of arguments as to the primary elements of film. Most of them are represented here too, and also to mixed effect.

Ember (Leah Lewis) is born to a family living in Element City, her parents Bernie (Ronnie Del Carmen) and Cinder (Shila Ommi) early arrivals in what's implied to be a fourth wave of immigration. In Firetown their grate is laid, a shop a spark to community through trade. I rhyme there as much from playful desire as to lead me to the film's lack of songs. I can't fairly complain that a film doesn't do something, but it is odd that a story that relies on separation and synthesis doesn't make use of a core feature of.

The Elemental cast features an impressive group consisting of newcomers and seasoned veterans playing characters representing the elements of nature for Pixar's 27th feature film. The animated movie tells the touching story of two young anthropomorphic elemental beings — one is fire, and the other is water — who fall in love despite the prejudices that exist between their people (and obvious practical barriers that come with being made out of fire and water). Like many of the studio's crowning achievements, Pixar's Elemental features a simple plot that is counterbalanced by the studio's amazing storytelling craft and unique visual language.

The unique plot and premise of Elemental is all supplemented by a stellar ensemble of voice talent. Though the cast of Elemental doesn't necessarily jump off the page as a roster of A-list names, many of the actors involved in the movie are experts at their craft and have lent their...

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...

Pixar's Elemental marked a major first in the animation studio's long history, introducing a non-binary character to its long list of iconic animated figures.

Actor Kai Ava Hauser, who is also nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, announced on social media that Lake Ripple identifies as nonbinary, marking the first nonbinary character in Pixar's history. Hauser wrote, "I got to play Pixar's first nonbinary character! Meet Lake! I voice Lake in the new movie [Elemental]! I'm seeing it in theaters tonight with my friends, so you can catch it in theaters too if you wanna see them."

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Big Announcement I got to play Pixar's first nonbinary character! Meet Lake! I voice Lake in the new movie #Elemental! I'm seeing it in theaters tonight with my friends, so you can catch it in theaters too if you wanna see them.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on June 15th, reviewing “Elemental,” the latest animated film from Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Studios. In theaters on June 16th.

Rating: 3.0/5.0

In a city where the elements of fire, water, earth, and air in the form of clouds live together, a fire woman named Ember (voice of Leah Lewis) and a water guy named Wade (Mamoudou Athie) meet cute when the shop of Ember’s father Bernie (Ronnie del Carmen), which is being inspected by Wade and his boss, city bureaucrat Gale Cumulus (Wendi McLendon-Covey). The potential couple are about to discover something elemental … how much they actually have in common.

”Elemental” opens in theaters on June 16th. Featuring the voices of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Wendy McLendon-Covey, Shila Ommie and Catherine O’Hara. Written by John Hoberg and Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh.

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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Ember (Leah Lewis) and Wade (Mamoudou Athie) in ‘Elemental’ (Photo © 2022 Disney/Pixar)

The four elements – wind, water, fire, and earth – are the focus of Pixar’s animated romantic comedy Elemental. The fact the elements co-exist in the same city but in their own areas provides the setup for an unlikely romance.

Elemental opens with Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis), a fiery young woman, working at her father’s shop in Firetown that she’s destined to take over one day. But there’s just one problem… Ember has a bad temper and is quick to anger, which makes her terrible at dealing with customers, especially rude and obnoxious ones. Her father, Bernie (voiced by Ronnie Del Carmen), assures her that she’ll eventually get the hang of dealing with customers and get ahold of her temper.

Ember discovers a leak in the shop’s basement during a special sale at the shop,...

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...

With Elemental, Pixar’s infrastructure drama is here at last. Yes, there’s a Romeo and Juliet-inspired love story, a tale as old as time of immigrants fighting to sustain their hard-won stability, and a parable about accepting and celebrating human—or rather, atomic—differences packed into the film. But Elemental’s plot is really driven by a buddy quest to follow the pipes and repair the leak responsible for causing increasingly frequent flooding in Fire Town, on the outskirts of Elemental City, a metropolis inhabited by the natural elements.

It’s not in Elemental’s best interests that its characters—and thus, its basic concept—are so difficult to describe. The fire people are some sort of humanoid flames and the water people humanoid drops, but not all fire or water in this world is sentient (it’s the regular kind of water that’s causing those pesky...

There are few brands as well-respected in Hollywood as Pixar, though the iconic animation studio has faced an awkward period ever since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. With its best 2020s offerings going straight to Disney+ and its grand return to theaters largely considered a disappointment (Lightyear), many have turned to Pixar's latest release, Elemental, with some high expectations. On paper, the colorful and impressively animated film appears to be a return to form for the studio. In reality, Elemental is bursting with clever ideas and timely social commentary, but ultimately passes over both for a more conventional tale.

In the vividly-drawn Element City, the four elements live together in not-quite harmony. Water, air, and earth folk mingle freely on the streets, at sporting matches, and on public transit while, in their own neighborhood removed from the rest of the city, the fire people have formed their own tight-knit community.

Elemental — Pixar’s 27th film, and the first to feature star-crossed lovers that literally become steamy when they kiss — forces you to answer a lot of questions right off the bat. Can a young man made entirely out of liquid ever find true romance with a fiery young woman? Could a metropolis with a population comprised of the four natural elements function as an urban melting pot, with disparate and possibly destructive parties finding a way to live in perfect harmony? Must the children of first-generation immigrants be forever burdened...

Chicago – What does an actor do after a successful run of a TV series? If you are Wendi McLendon-Covey, late of “The Goldbergs,” it’s an animation voiceover gig for Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Studios latest release, “Elemental.” McLendon-Covey is the voice of Gale Cumulus, a city official in a wondrous mix of elements.

In a city where fire, water, earth, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman named Ember (voice of Leah Lewis) and a go-with-the-flow watery guy named Wade (Mamoudou Athie) meet cute as the shop of Ember’s father Bernie (Ronnie del Carmen). Wade is a city inspector, scrutinizing Bernie’s establishment, and he kicks the paperwork upstairs to his boss Gale Cumulus (Wendi McLendon-Covey). The potential fire and water couple are about to discover something elemental … how much they actually have in common.

Wendi McLendon-Covey (inset) Voices Gale in ‘Elemental’

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