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Apple TV+ will soon release the animated short Blush, the first project under its multi-year partnership with Skydance Animation. The deal, which we first reported in February, includes animated series as well as feature films. Blush follows a stranded horticulturist-astronaut who must learn to survive after he crash lands on a desolate dwarf planet. When an ethereal visitor arrives, the once-lone traveler discovers the joy in building a new life and realizes the universe has delivered astonis...

Screenshot: Pixar / Disney It is not hard to hate Sid Phillips, the enfant terrible of Pixar’s groundbreaking 1995 CG animated film, Toy Story. From the toys’ point of view, he is the devil incarnate, an 11-year-old anarchist who never met a plaything he couldn’t burn, explode, or Frankenstein into a bizarre, mutant lifeform. With his braces-clad sneer, his skull-emblazoned T-shirt and his bedroom stocked with ominous Army handbooks, Sid is the polar opposite of childhood innocence, an u...

Credit: Apple The short animated film is debuting as the first piece of content in a multi-year partnership between Skydance and Apple. "Blush follows the journey of a stranded horticulturist-astronauts chances for survival after he crash lands on a desolate dwarf planet. When an ethereal visitor arrives, the once-lone traveler discovers the joy in building a new life and realizes the universe has delivered astonishing salvation." The short is written and directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe ...

Apple Original Films announces the Short Animation Film "Blush" from Skydance Animation is coming to Apple TV+   In February Patently Apple posted a report about Apple acquiring the animation films Luck and Spellbound from Skydance Animation along with a multi-year agreement promising more more feature films and TV series. Today Apple announced that another Skydance animation film is coming to Apple TV+ titled "Blush."   This latest film  follows the journey of a stranded horticulturist-ast...

Apple has announced The film was created as part of the Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation partnership. Blush, a new animated film from Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation, is making its way to Apple TV+. Apple has announced that the new film is the first animated short film that will premiere "as part of an expansive multi-year partnership" between the two production companies. Over time, the partnership is expected to yield a number of animated films and television series th...

Apple TV+ has announced "Blush," its first animated short film produced in partnership with Skydance Animation. The short animated film is debuting as the first piece of content in a multi-year partnership between Skydance and Apple. "Blush follows the journey of a stranded horticulturist-astronauts chances for survival after he crash lands on a desolate dwarf planet. When an ethereal visitor arrives, the once-lone traveler discovers the joy in building a new life and realizes the universe has ...

In the early 90s, we didn’t have Starbucks and Pearl Jam was still known as Mookie Blaylock. Huh? We didn’t use the Internet for everything (yet), and AOL was king. Google wasn’t even invented until 1998 (though didn’t officially become a verb until 2006); instead, we had Ask Jeeves, Alta Vista, Netscape, Lycos, Earthlink, MindSpring, or Yahoo (among others) to search the mysterious, new World Wide Web.  We also saw the birth of email, or Email, or e-mail, or E-mail; yes, it took a wh...

But despite its troubled production (no less than 10 credited writers) and a less- than-inspiring trailer, the end result was actually an inventive, joyous, delightful surprise. Set in the far-from-empty back gardens of the warring Montague (Julie Walters) and Capulet (Richard Wilson) semi- detached households (2B and not 2B) in suburban Verona Dr, Gnomeo is the tale of the ongoing conflict between Lord Redbricks (Michael Caine) red-hatted army and Lady Blueburys (Maggie Smith) blue-pointed b...

March 16, 2021 Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki speaks during a news conference held to announce his retirement from film in Tokyo, in this September 6, 2013. Reuters Forest sprites and witches, a pilot who is a pig, mythical princes, gods, dragons and children struggling against insurmountable odds – a cast of the good, the bad and the odd inhabit the movies produced by Studio Ghibli, and have helped make a relatively small animation studio famous around the world.  Titles such as My Neighb...

Oscar Nomination for Borat Sequel Breaks One Specific Record ✖ Borat Subsequent Moviefilm got some love from The Academy. Sacha Baron Cohens follow-up had his co-star Maria Bakalova nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role while the writers for the movie also nabbed a Best Adapted Screenplay. That later nod for the film has put the movie into very distinguished company in one record book while also shattering another record all its own in terms of credited writers in one nomination....