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Elemental director Peter Sohn received an Oscar nomination on Tuesday morning for Best Animated Feature. Even with a story that's very personal to him, Sohn's first thoughts go towards his entire crew. "I think about all the work and passion and love that they put into the film, and it fills me up in a…

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…

For Pixar’s Elemental, composer Thomas Newman was given the challenge of scoring for ‘elemental’ cultures that don’t exist in the real world, while instilling a sense of familiarity for the viewer. He says the real difficulty was to “point towards different cultures and never land on one.” Directed…

Disney and Pixar said 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…

Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is headed to Disney+ next week. The hit animated feature film will begin streaming on the service on September 13. Also hitting the streamer that day are the making-of documentary Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental and Pixar Animation Studios’ short Carl’s Date, featuring…

Summer may be drawing to a close, but the blockbusters of the season are still basking in box office glory. To wit: Greta Gerwig's Barbie is poised to become the highest-grossing Warner Bros movie of all time globally on Monday. Through today, the worldwide estimate is $1.34B, meaning just $1M separates…

UPDATED: It's still a Barbie world this weekend as the Greta Gerwig-directed charmer reached a global cume of $1.184B. Last session, Margot Robbie's living doll crossed the $1B threshold, and in this 4th frame added $45.1M in 75 offshore markets (a 47% dip) to bring the international box office cume to $65…

UPDATE: A big weekend at the box office with something for everyone and notable milestones including Barbie crossing the $1B global mark while Oppenheimer topped $550M, as we noted earlier. In new plays, Meg 2: The Trench opened to a strong $142M global and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…

MONDAY UPDATE, with Barbenheimer actuals: Barbie and Oppenheimer's sophomore weekends have come in higher versus Sunday estimates. The No. 1 movie worldwide for the second frame in a row, Barbie now has a confirmed global cume of $780.7M through yesterday and will cross $800M in short order. In 69…

MONDAY UPDATE, with actuals: Actuals are in for the weekend's behemoth double-bill with both movies seeing significant upticks now that Sunday is tallied. Warner Bros Barbie has come in with a $356.3M global launch through yesterday, versus the estimated $337M – talk about being in the pink. Meanwhile…

SUNDAY UPDATE: Paramount/Skydance's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One lit the fuse this weekend with a $235M global start. Of that, $155M is from 70 international box office markets which rep 93% of the offshore footprint (Japan is notably still to come).  Excluding China, where there…

UPDATE: Busy weekend at the international box office with a strong scary new entry, some unexpected spark in holds and a milestone for a long-running franchise. Out of the gate this frame, Sony/Screen Gems/Stage 6 Films/Blumhouse's Insidious: The Red Door knocked out the biggest overseas horror debut…