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San Francisco Chronicle
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘Incredibles 3' is in the works, and Pixar has hired a director
Peter Sohn, a longtime Disney Pixar creative whose comedy 'Elemental' helped jump-start the Emeryville-based animation company's revival in 2023, has been tapped to direct 'Incredibles 3,' which continues the story of the superhero Parr family. Brad Bird, who directed the first two 'Incredibles' movies, is writing the screenplay and will co-produce, according to a report in the Hollywood Reporter. Sohn has worked with Bird since the late 1990s, when he worked on the animation for Bird's first feature, ' The Iron Giant ' (1999), for Warner Bros. Both moved to Pixar in 2000. While Bird established an illustrious directing career with 'The Incredibles' (2004), ' Ratatouille ' (2007) and ' Incredibles 2 ' (2018) — with the live-action ' Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol ' (2011) and ' Tomorrowland ' (2015) in between — Sohn has worked as an animator, storyboard artist and voice actor for several Pixar films. Sohn's first film as director was ' The Good Dinosaur ' (2015), which was generally well received by critics but became Pixar's first box-office failure. He got another chance as director with ' Elemental,' a personal story inspired by his youth as the son of immigrants in New York during the 1970s and '80s. The unlikely love story of water and fire at first seemed like another box-office bomb after Pixar's first theatrically released film post-pandemic, ' Lightyear,' tanked in the summer of 2022. But 'Elemental' became a sleeper hit, picking up steam after its June 2023 release. By mid-August, it had become a certifiable smash, pulling in nearly half a billion dollars at the global box office and was nominated for an Oscar for best animation feature. The first two 'Incredibles' movies have taken in nearly $1.9 billion combined at the global box office. Voice cast members returning for 'Incredibles 3' include Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson and Sarah Vowell. No release date has been set. Pixar's next film, ' Elio,' directed by Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi, is set for release on June 20.
Los Angeles Times
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Oscars flashback: Animation — and Pixar — have an ‘Incredibles' night
Starting in 2002, feature-length animated films were included in awards season in the same way their short animated film compatriots had been since 1932 — with their own dedicated Academy Awards category. The new category was a breakthrough at the time, though in the years since it has also been controversial: Does having a dedicated animated feature category exclude worthy films from being included in the best picture discussion? That discussion has swirled annually since the late 2010s — but it wasn't part of the discourse on Feb. 27, 2005, when the 77th Academy Awards were held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and 'The Incredibles' took home Pixar's second of a series of Oscar wins in the category. Director-writer Brad Bird won for 'Incredibles' with his first nomination. It was Pixar's second film to earn the feature Oscar; 'Finding Nemo' had won the previous year. Bird was also nominated for the original screenplay but didn't win; in 2008, he would win again in the feature category with 'Ratatouille.' Pixar films have won 11 of the animated feature film awards that have been given out. Disney would go on to acquire Pixar in 2006. Accepting the award from Robin Williams, Bird (who wore an oval-shaped 'Incredibles' themed pin on his lapel) noted, 'I don't know what's more frightening, being watched by millions of people, or the hundreds of people that are going to be annoyed with me tomorrow for not mentioning them tonight.' He added that 'Animation is about creating the illusion of life, and you can't create it if you don't have one,' then went on to thank his wife and children. There were only two other nominees in the category, each on their first and (thus far only) nomination: Bill Damaschke ('Shark Tale') and Andrew Adamson ('Shrek 2'). 'Shrek' was the first winner in this category in 2002, with the award given to Aron Warner. For the first 50 years of animated short films receiving Oscars, the awards were given to the producers of the films, but current rules give the award to the person most directly responsible for the creation of the film — usually the director. In 2005, animated short film winner Chris Landreth wasn't just the director of the documentary 'Ryan,' he was also a co-star. The film focused on Landreth's interview with Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who'd been nominated for his own Oscar in 1970 for 'Walking,' and who fell on hard times in later years. Landreth, who had also been nominated in this category in 1996, dedicated the award to Larkin. 'I am here tonight because of the grace and humility of one guy watching from Montreal,' he said. Larkin died in 2007. The other nominees represented a wide spectrum of animation styles and largely leaned on humor and animals — or both. 'Gopher Broke' by Jeff Fowler and Tim Miller looked at the frustration of a hungry, ambitious gopher; it was their first and so far only nomination. Bill Plympton received his second nomination (his first came in 1988) for 'Guard Dog,' which provided insight to the canine mind and why some dogs bark at everything. 'Lorenzo' was nominated for director Mike Gabriel (who co-wrote the script with Joe Grant) and producer Baker Bloodworth and was about a cat whose tail develops a personality of its own. It was their first and only nomination. 'Birthday Boy' took a different turn, looking at a young boy during the Korean War who roams his town to collect the remains of battles around him. The nomination went to first-timers Sejong Park (writer-director) and Andrew Gregory (producer).
