Though the reign of “Encanto” has begun to subside, Disney Plus remains on top with Pixar’s latest feature “Turning Red” debuting in the No. 1 position in Nielsen’s newly released Top 10 streaming rankings. The title accrued more than 1.7 billion minutes watched from March 7 to 13, beating out “The Last Kingdom” and “Pieces of Her,” the Netflix series that nabbed positions 2 and 3 respectively, both with 1.4 billion minutes watched.
“Turning Red” wasn’t originally intended for a streaming debut at all, until Disney announced in January that the title would skip theaters and head straight to the small screen on March 11. The film follows a confident and dorky 13-year-old named Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang), who transforms into a giant red panda anytime she gets overly excited — which happens incredibly easily as a pubescent middle schooler. Along with Chiang, the voice cast includes Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Orion Lee,...
“Turning Red” wasn’t originally intended for a streaming debut at all, until Disney announced in January that the title would skip theaters and head straight to the small screen on March 11. The film follows a confident and dorky 13-year-old named Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang), who transforms into a giant red panda anytime she gets overly excited — which happens incredibly easily as a pubescent middle schooler. Along with Chiang, the voice cast includes Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Orion Lee,...
- 4/7/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
The latest Pixar movie Turning Red had its world premiere on March 1 and was released on the Disney+ streaming service on March 11. It was directed by Domee Shi, in her feature directorial debut, and written by Shi and Julia Cho. The film features the voices of Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Wai Ching Ho, Tristan Allerick Chen, and James Hong. As Pixar’s 25th feature film, Turning Red is the first Pixar film solely directed by a woman. The film is set in 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, and follows 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Turning Red”...
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Turning Red”...
- 3/22/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
In theory, there is not much difference between Turning Red and many other children’s films.
The latest from Pixar is about a young girl who develops a new ability and has to learn to harness it, all while avoiding conflict with her clueless parents. Any number of family movies — including Luca (2021), Pixar’s previous release — work from this template.
But in practice, Pixar takes Turning Red into areas rarely seen in this subgenre. It is a weird, clever and very funny exploration of the messiness and confusion of adolescence, filtered through the lens of a 13-year-old Chinese girl in 2002 Toronto. It is one of the most inventive films of the year, and the best Pixar film since Inside Out (2015).
Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang) is content to hang out with her friends, obsess about popular boy band 4 Town, and do her best to pass her classes and honor her mother...
The latest from Pixar is about a young girl who develops a new ability and has to learn to harness it, all while avoiding conflict with her clueless parents. Any number of family movies — including Luca (2021), Pixar’s previous release — work from this template.
But in practice, Pixar takes Turning Red into areas rarely seen in this subgenre. It is a weird, clever and very funny exploration of the messiness and confusion of adolescence, filtered through the lens of a 13-year-old Chinese girl in 2002 Toronto. It is one of the most inventive films of the year, and the best Pixar film since Inside Out (2015).
Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang) is content to hang out with her friends, obsess about popular boy band 4 Town, and do her best to pass her classes and honor her mother...
- 3/13/2022
- by Chris Williams
- CinemaNerdz
13-year-old Mei (Rosalie Chiang) has always been the perfect child. She respects her parents (Sandra Oh’s Ming and Orion Lee’s Jin), helps work the family temple (a tourist destination in Toronto), and makes sure to keep her grades impeccable (while also enjoying a litany of extra-curriculars to pad out that inevitable college résumé). And this is how she wants it. Or, at least, it’s how she’s wanted it. She looks up to her mother and is cognizant of the strain that’s kept her grandmother (Wai Ching Ho) away from them. The last thing she wants is for their relationship to fracture in the same way, but puberty has a tendency of upsetting such ironclad dynamics once hormones and emotions take hold. It’s time Mei put herself first.
Though this generally means ushering in a rebellious phase, Turning Red director Domee Shi and co-writer Julia Cho...
Though this generally means ushering in a rebellious phase, Turning Red director Domee Shi and co-writer Julia Cho...
- 3/11/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
What’s your favorite euphemism for menstruation? Personally, I’ve always liked the daftness of “having the painters in,” and the evocative imagery of “shark week.” Maybe you “surf the crimson tide” (actually, has anyone said that since the mid 1990s?) or, more quaintly, endure a “visit from Aunt Flo.” Perhaps you are of the stricter feminist school of thought that dictates all such metaphorical language contributes to the stigmatization of this very natural process, and you confine yourself to starkly clinical terms involving blood, progesterone and the uterine lining.
- 3/10/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Rollingstone.com
Pixar’s winning streak of critical acclaim has continued with the new animated film “Turning Red,” which hits Disney+ on Friday.
Directed by Domee Shi in her feature film debut and written by Shi and Julia Cho (“Halt and Catch Fire”), “Turning Red” follows Meilin “Mei” Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student, who is horrified to discover that whenever she gets too excited or stressed, she turns into a giant red panda. Mei later learns that her ancestors have a shared history with the species as a family curse, though the curse can be contained by performing a special ritual on one specific night which happens to coincide with a concert by her favorite boy band, 4*Town.
In a rave review for The Washington Post, writer Michael Sullivan wrote, “To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a red panda is just a red panda. And sometimes it’s a metaphor for that inner spark of creativity,...
Directed by Domee Shi in her feature film debut and written by Shi and Julia Cho (“Halt and Catch Fire”), “Turning Red” follows Meilin “Mei” Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student, who is horrified to discover that whenever she gets too excited or stressed, she turns into a giant red panda. Mei later learns that her ancestors have a shared history with the species as a family curse, though the curse can be contained by performing a special ritual on one specific night which happens to coincide with a concert by her favorite boy band, 4*Town.
In a rave review for The Washington Post, writer Michael Sullivan wrote, “To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a red panda is just a red panda. And sometimes it’s a metaphor for that inner spark of creativity,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Caillou Pettis
- Gold Derby
Thirteen-year-old Mei Lee has big problems long before she unexpectedly turns into a giant, walking, talking red panda. She wants to hang out with her friends, drool over their favorite boy band, have some laughs, just be a kid. But at home, she has to be someone else, buttoned up and proper, a perfect student and a doting daughter, not just some screeching teen. Being a teenager is tough enough, weird beyond measure, confusing as anything, and then…giant, walking, talking red panda. What’s a girl (panda) to do?
Pixar has never shied away from the tough stuff — there are entire generations of kids who have being guided through the cold terror of nothing less than death, world-wide destruction, and even the afterlife through the animation giant’s charming productions — but
Kicking off with incredible, unfailing energy, Shi introduces us to her wonderful Mei (voiced by the charming Rosalie Chiang...
Pixar has never shied away from the tough stuff — there are entire generations of kids who have being guided through the cold terror of nothing less than death, world-wide destruction, and even the afterlife through the animation giant’s charming productions — but
Kicking off with incredible, unfailing energy, Shi introduces us to her wonderful Mei (voiced by the charming Rosalie Chiang...
- 3/7/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Part of parenthood is the understanding that today’s loving, obedient child can be tomorrow’s willful, snarling teenage beast. And in the same way that Pixar’s “Inside Out” skillfully broke down the swirl of emotions swimming around all of our heads, the studio’s latest, “Turning Red,” uses a big, fluffy wild animal as a way to explore one girl’s passage to womanhood.
For 13-year-old Meimei (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), her entry into adulthood is marked by her occasional transformation into a giant, red panda whenever she gets excited or agitated. Meimei’s no-nonsense mother Ming (Sandra Oh) reveals that this shape-shifting is a family trait that’s been passed down from mother to daughter over the centuries, all the way back to an ancestor who was blessed with this gift because of her close relationship with the red pandas.
For subsequent generations, however, it’s considered...
For 13-year-old Meimei (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), her entry into adulthood is marked by her occasional transformation into a giant, red panda whenever she gets excited or agitated. Meimei’s no-nonsense mother Ming (Sandra Oh) reveals that this shape-shifting is a family trait that’s been passed down from mother to daughter over the centuries, all the way back to an ancestor who was blessed with this gift because of her close relationship with the red pandas.
For subsequent generations, however, it’s considered...
- 3/7/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
What a week it’s been for Sandra Oh!
Following Sunday’s final season premiere of “Killing Eve,” which coincided with her appearance at the Screen Actors Guild Awards where she was a nominee for “The Chair,” Oh walked the red carpet on Tuesday in Hollywood for the debut of Disney-Pixar’s “Turning Red.”
“Look at this, it’s so amazing, I can’t stop looking at it and thinking that it’s real,” Oh told Variety while pointing to the glittering “Turning Red” marquee atop the El Capitan Theatre.
Oh posed outside the Hollywood Blvd. venue with co-star Rosalie Chiang and Grammy-winning superstar Billie Eilish, who, alongside her brother Finneas, contributed original songs to the coming-of-age animated tale. In the movie, Oh voices Ming, mother to the 13-year-old Meilin Lee (Chiang), whose life is turned upside down when she begins to turn into a giant red panda when she displays any excited emotion.
Following Sunday’s final season premiere of “Killing Eve,” which coincided with her appearance at the Screen Actors Guild Awards where she was a nominee for “The Chair,” Oh walked the red carpet on Tuesday in Hollywood for the debut of Disney-Pixar’s “Turning Red.”
“Look at this, it’s so amazing, I can’t stop looking at it and thinking that it’s real,” Oh told Variety while pointing to the glittering “Turning Red” marquee atop the El Capitan Theatre.
Oh posed outside the Hollywood Blvd. venue with co-star Rosalie Chiang and Grammy-winning superstar Billie Eilish, who, alongside her brother Finneas, contributed original songs to the coming-of-age animated tale. In the movie, Oh voices Ming, mother to the 13-year-old Meilin Lee (Chiang), whose life is turned upside down when she begins to turn into a giant red panda when she displays any excited emotion.
- 3/2/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Aaron Kaplan‘s Kapital Entertainment has closed a two-year first-look deal with Venezuelan cable network Radio Caracas Televisión, one of the leading producers and exporters of telenovelas worldwide. Under the agreement made with Jorge Granier, managing director of Rctv’s Miami-based subsidiary Rctv International, Kapital Entertainment will have access to the entire library of Rctv formats and content — over 300 shows and 35,000 hours — as well as taps into Granier’s relationships throughout Latin America to acquire other formats from the region. The venture plans to develop projects for U.S. broadcast and cable networks, which will be executive produced by Granier and Kaplan. The pact, brokered by UTA, expands Kapital’s focus on Spanish-language content. The company’s recent projects in that arena include upcoming ABC Family series Chasing Life, which was based on a Televisa Mexican format; Mysteries Of Laura, based on a Spanish format, which has a production commitment...
- 10/14/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Back Stage highlights how web series can boost your career and features five actors from prominent online shows.Web Series Can Be a Major Career Avenue Big players such as Netflix and Kevin Spacey give web series a new luster, while management companies like Big Frame monetize online shows for performers.Web Series Knockouts From 'ElfQuest' to Jane Austen Keep an eye on web series scene stealers Brad "Cheeks" Bell, Julia Cho, Shannon Nelson, Sandeep Parikh, and Stephanie Thorpe.
- 7/26/2012
- by help@backstage.com ()
- backstage.com
HBO is developing a new drama series based on the novel The Madonnas of Echo Park. The book, written by Brando Skyhorse, focuses on the Mexican American community of the Los Angeles neighbourhood. Julia Cho (Big Love) will adapt the novel for television, with Gcb's Aaron Kaplan and writer Kelly Marcel signed on to executive produce. Kaplan and Marcel previously worked together on sci-fi drama Terra Nova, which was recently axed by Fox. Kaplan's production company (more)...
- 3/28/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: HBO has put in development a drama series project based on the novel The Madonnas Of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse. The project, to be written by award-winning playwright Julia Cho, takes a look at the lives of a community in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Los Angeles. It explores the relationships -– romantic, professional, familial –- of the Latinos that have built the community over the years, and the hipsters who’re making their way in now, examining the complicated dynamic between the two as they struggle to build new lives for themselves in pursuit of the American dream. Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan and British writer Kelly Marcel are executive producing, reuniting after their first collaboration on Terra Nova, which the two executive produced. Terra Nova originated with a 15-page treatment by Marcel, which Kaplan brought to the U.S. For Cho, who will serve as co-executive producer,...
- 3/27/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
HBO set to turn Brando Skyhorse's The Madonna's of Echo Park into series. HBO is set to turn the Skyhorse novel into a series, which playwright Julia Cho is writing, reports Deadline. Story is set in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Los Angeles neighborhood, following the relationships of Latinos who have built the community through the years and the new hipsters coming in, as each tries to live the American dream. Kelly Marcel and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan are serving as executive producers on The Madonna's of Echo Park adaptation. Kapital also produced HBO's Viagra Diaries, from Darren Star (Sex And The City).
- 3/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
HBO set to turn Brando Skyhorse's The Madonna's of Echo Park into series. HBO is set to turn the Skyhorse novel into a series, which playwright Julia Cho is writing, reports Deadline. Story is set in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Los Angeles neighborhood, following the relationships of Latinos who have built the community through the years and the new hipsters coming in, as each tries to live the American dream. Kelly Marcel and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan are serving as executive producers on The Madonna's of Echo Park adaptation. Kapital also produced HBO's Viagra Diaries, from Darren Star (Sex And The City).
- 3/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"I'm trying to win a place at the table." - Bill Many mourned the loss of the original opening credits of Big Love. Set to The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows," it offered a look at the celestial family created by the Henricksons, a glimpse into the eternity offered to their family. But of late, the new credits, which hauntingly depict the various members of the Henrickson family in a state of freefall, seem all the more appropriate, as the clan continues to come apart at the seams. And as each of them searches for their own definition of "home." This week's evocative and powerful episode of Big Love ("A Seat at the Table"), written by Julia Cho and directed by Adam Davidson, found each of the wives grappling with their own inner compass in the wake of their public outing. Revealed to be "lying polygamists," each of the...
- 1/24/2011
- by Jace
- Televisionary
The 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious award given annually to women playwrights, has been awarded to American playwright Julia Cho for her play "The Language Archive." Ms. Cho received the honor at a private reception in New York City on Wednesday, March 3. The award of $20,000 and a signed and numbered print by artist Willem de Kooning were presented to Ms. Cho by Tony Award-winning director Doug Hughes, one of the distinguished judges for the 2010 Blackburn Prize.
- 3/4/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
"I'm not that person that you think I'm becoming." - Bill This week's stunning episode of Big Love ("Blood Atonement"), written by Julia Cho and directed by David Petrarca, featuring not only one of the most shocking moments so far on the series to date but also offered an exploration of the characters' innermost psyches by focusing on their past mistakes. Both Bill and Joey have been beset by feelings of vengeance, but both carried them out in different ways. Bill has long attempted to escape the squalid filth and treachery of the Juniper Creek compound but far too often finds himself dragged right back in. He never chose to leave in the first place; that decision was made for him by Roman Grant and his father Frank Harlow and that moment has haunted him for the rest of his life. Joey, meanwhile, murdered Roman as an act of revenge...
- 2/22/2010
- by Jace
- Televisionary
Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein will be lecturing about Athol Fugard, described by the New York Times as "the greatest playwright writing in English since Shakespeare," Sunday, November 15 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, 146 Thimble Island Road, Stony Creek.
Edelstein is directing the world premiere of Fugard's Have You Seen Us?, running from Nov. 24 through Dec. 20 at Long Wharf Theatre, the site of many of Fugard's world premieres in the 1970s.
Fugard, born in 1932 in Middelburg, in the Karoo desert region of South Africa, battled to bring the stories of all South Africans to the world, even under the darkest years of apartheid, that abusive system that had one set of laws for whites, and another for people of color. For his service, he was awarded South Africa's highest award, the Ikhamanga Medal in 2005. His best-known plays include Bloodknot (1961); Boesman and Lena (1969); Sizwe Bansi...
Edelstein is directing the world premiere of Fugard's Have You Seen Us?, running from Nov. 24 through Dec. 20 at Long Wharf Theatre, the site of many of Fugard's world premieres in the 1970s.
Fugard, born in 1932 in Middelburg, in the Karoo desert region of South Africa, battled to bring the stories of all South Africans to the world, even under the darkest years of apartheid, that abusive system that had one set of laws for whites, and another for people of color. For his service, he was awarded South Africa's highest award, the Ikhamanga Medal in 2005. His best-known plays include Bloodknot (1961); Boesman and Lena (1969); Sizwe Bansi...
- 11/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Warm up your holiday season with Long Wharf Theatre. Experience the essence of the holidays with a healthy dose of humor - find yourself and your family in our stories My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm Home for the Holidays, the all new play by Steve Solomon, and the hit Sister's Christmas Catechism, by Maripat Donovan.
In Sister's Christmas Catechism, written by the author of Late Nite Catechism, Sister takes on the mystery that has intrigued historians throughout the ages - whatever happened to the Magi's gold? Employing her own scientific tools and assisted by local choirs as well as a gaggle of audience members, Sister creates a living nativity unlike any ever seen. With gifts galore and bundles of laughs, Sister's Christmas Catechism is sure to become a new holiday tradition. The show runs from Dec. 1-20. Tickets are $28.
Travel back home for the holidays with Steve Solomon...
In Sister's Christmas Catechism, written by the author of Late Nite Catechism, Sister takes on the mystery that has intrigued historians throughout the ages - whatever happened to the Magi's gold? Employing her own scientific tools and assisted by local choirs as well as a gaggle of audience members, Sister creates a living nativity unlike any ever seen. With gifts galore and bundles of laughs, Sister's Christmas Catechism is sure to become a new holiday tradition. The show runs from Dec. 1-20. Tickets are $28.
Travel back home for the holidays with Steve Solomon...
- 11/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fringe Episode 1.15 "Inner Child" Written By: Brad Caleb Kane and Julia Cho Directed By: Frederick E.O. Toye Original Airdate: 7 April 2009 In This Episode… A demolition team is about to take down a decrepit building when one guy suddenly feels like he needs to do one last sweep of the building. Good thing he does, because in a hidden underground tunnel, he finds a young boy, naked, hairless, and devoid of pigment. Charlie gets a worrisome fax at the office – an invite to a public "art show." Several years ago, he and Olivia worked a case with a perp dubbed "The Artist". He would abduct, sedate and slaughter his victims, give...
- 4/8/2009
- FEARnet
"The Dark Knight," "Slumdog Millionaire," "Doubt," "Frost/Nixon," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" are among the nominees in the Adapted Screenplay category for the WGA's (Writers Guild Awards) 61st Anniversary awards show.
Winners will be announced February 7th, and will be held simultaneously between two ceremonies -- West Coast at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, and the East Coast at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.
What about "Milk" or "The Wrestler?" Click Read More to see full list of nominees!
Original Screenplay
Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features
Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company
The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films
The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Screenplay...
Winners will be announced February 7th, and will be held simultaneously between two ceremonies -- West Coast at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, and the East Coast at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.
What about "Milk" or "The Wrestler?" Click Read More to see full list of nominees!
Original Screenplay
Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features
Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company
The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films
The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Screenplay...
- 1/7/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Genre vets Marc Guggenheim (Eli Stone), Drew Goddard, Brian K. Vaughan (Lost), Marti Noxon, Zack Whedon, and Danny Strong (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) have been nominated by their peers. The Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East announced their nominees for outstanding achievement in television, radio, news, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2008 season to be honored at the upcoming 2009 Writers Guild Awards on February 7, 2009, in Los Angeles and New York.
Television Nominees
Dramatic Series
Dexter, Written by Scott Buck, Daniel Cerone, Charles H. Eglee, Adam E. Fiero, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, Tim Schlattmann; Showtime
Friday Night Lights, Written by Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Brent Fletcher, Jason Gavin, Carter Harris, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, John Zinman; NBC
Lost, Written by Carlton Cuse, Drew Goddard, Adam Horowitz, Christina M. Kim, Edward Kitsis, Damon L.
Television Nominees
Dramatic Series
Dexter, Written by Scott Buck, Daniel Cerone, Charles H. Eglee, Adam E. Fiero, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, Tim Schlattmann; Showtime
Friday Night Lights, Written by Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Brent Fletcher, Jason Gavin, Carter Harris, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, John Zinman; NBC
Lost, Written by Carlton Cuse, Drew Goddard, Adam Horowitz, Christina M. Kim, Edward Kitsis, Damon L.
- 12/14/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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