Sentences with phrase «film moana»

He also co-wrote the upcoming Disney film Moana with Dwayne Johnson.

He was also a writer on Disney's upcoming animated film Moana featuring a Polynesian... Read More»

He was hanging out with Dwayne Johnson and Auli'i Cravalho to promote their new film Moana but he took a few detours to sing classic Disney... Read More»

Until the axe came down, I'm told British action game studio Ninja Theory had been working on material based on December's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, while Studio Gobo, a studio largely known for external Disney Infinity development, riffed on the upcoming Disney animated film Moana.

Not exact matches

This hotel may share a name with one of Disney's latest animated films, but the history of the Moana Surfrider dates back much farther.

In Moana - Auli'i's first ever film - she plays Polynesian princess Moana Waialiki, who sets out to find shape - shifting demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) and save her endangered island.

The trailer doesn't feature any dialogue, instead it shows an early scene from the film where a very young Moana learns that she has the power to control the ocean, specifically the water.

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During the film, Moana and Maui must go get Maui's magical fish hook from a villain named Tamatoa.

Moana is a gorgeously animated, incredibly funny film with great music, characters, and story.

Moana suffered a bit by being released the same year as Disney's Oscar - winning Zootopia (which is also a fine film, and also available on Netflix).

ZOOTOPIA was named the best animated film of 2015, with KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS and MOANA as runners - up.

A song with thematic impact, like «City of Stars» had, within the context of the film carries more weight than «Moana»'s power and Justin Timberlake's partytime.

It is a nifty guide to Easter eggs hidden in the film, pointing out references to recent and upcoming WDAS movies (Big Hero 6, Frozen, Moana) as well as a number of hidden Mickeys and one hidden Oswald.

While our # 1 prediction, Moana, hasn't even come out yet, what we've seen of it from the trailer and stills and that Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner Lin - Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) is doing original songs for the film (hello, EGOT) is enough to sell us on it as the film to beat.

As the film alludes to in a very funny sequence involving Johnson's Maui and Cravalho's Moana meeting for the first time, there is the princess element, along with kooky sidekick HeiHei (played by Alan Tudyk, Moana's pet rooster, his look apparently modelled on Musker) and pet pig Pua, supposedly inspired by Clements, and there's also the mild peril which can be associated with most great Disney movies.

• Tue 5 June: The Greatest Showman (PG) • Tue 12 June: Live Stream of Swan Lake by Royal Opera House • Tue 19 June: La La Land (12A) • Tue 26 June: Live Screening of La Bohème from Royal Opera House • Tue 3 July: Wimbledon (no film) • Tue 10 July: Wimbledon (no film) • Tue 17 July: Grease (40th Anniversary)(PG) • Tue 24 July: Moana (PG) • Tue 31 July: Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 (12) • Tue 7 Aug: Beauty and the Beast 2017 (PG) • Tue 14 Aug: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (12A) • Tue 21 Aug: The BFG 2016 (PG) • Tue 28 Aug: Into the Woods (PG)

ANIMATED FILM «Finding Dory,» Andrew Stanton «Kubo and the Two Strings,» Travis Knight * WINNER «Moana,» Ron Clements, John Musker «Zootropolis,» Byron Howard, Rich Moore

Following in the shadow of Disney greats such as Frozen and Zootropolis, Moana had a lot to live up, but in our eyes the film almost surpasses both of them.

Moana teaser trailer: Following massive success with Zootropolis back at Easter, Disney release their second big animated film of 2016.

Audio Commentary * — Directors John Musker and Ron Clements discuss their history of working with Disney, the origin of their ideas for Moana, the animation process, last - minute story changes, and how they got Troy Polamalu (former safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers) to make a voice cameo in the film.

Despite the variety of animated features released in 2016, Disney still reigns supreme with Oscar - nominated films Zootopia and Moana.

For the second year in a row, we have a rousing earworm from a Disney film — last year Moana's «How Far I'll Go,» this year Coco's «Remember Me» — up against the wunderkind duo of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who won last year for La La Land's «City of Stars,» went on to win two Tonys and a Grammy for Dear Evan Hansen, and are now back with «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman.

Joining them is the film's only comic relief, K - 2SO (voice of Alan Tudyk, who also did vocal work in «Moana»), a reprogrammed Imperial droid that's a cross between C - 3PO and General Grievious (from «Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith»).

I don't know what to say, other than, if Disney has been making a lot of steps in the right direction overall as a company, with features like Moana, and Star Wars, and (finally if late to the table) Marvel films, then asking for every movie, including period films set in Europe, might be over-correcting the ship.

The two filmed the «Jumanji» reboot a few months ago, before Johnson was able to promote Disney's animated musical «Moana», in which he voiced the demigod Maui.

Friday afternoon sees the «Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Upcoming Films» presentation inside the show's Hall D23, highlighting upcoming Pixar productions such as «The Good Dinosaur» and «Finding Dory,» and Disney animated films «Zootopia» and «Moana» — likely with a few surprises along the way.

«Moana,» the Polynesian - themed Disney animated film, won two awards, for Best Hawaii Film and Best Song, «How Far I'll Go.»

But this is a film where more than half the characters are female, and Moana is clearly the star of the show, rather than Johnson.

When hype for a film made by a film company I generally... Continue reading Moana

FEATURE FILM KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Travis Knight, Arianne Sutner — Laika / Universal Pictures THE LITTLE PRINCE Mark Osborne, Aton Soumache, Alexis Vonarb, Dimitri Rassam — ON Animation Studios and Netflix / Netflix MOANA Ron Clements, John Musker, Osnat Shurer — Walt Disney Animation Studios / Walt Disney Animation Studios SING Christopher Meledandri, Janet Healy, Garth Jennings — Illumination / Universal Pictures

The film joins the previously announced Rules Don't Apply (Opening Night film), Miss Sloane, Moana, 20th Century Women...

From Moonlight and Arrival to Moana and Don't Think Twice, the films that made waves this year, and some that may have gone unnoticed

As detailed before in the Kotaku report, Disney Infinity was set to release a Moana Play Set alongside the much hyped film this fall for Disney Infinity 3.0.

This commentary includes wonderful insight on both the technical aspects of the movie (the directors generously offer shout - outs to specific animators responsible for different elements of the film) and Moana «s story (they discuss the inspiration and many iterations of the movie, which was first pitched in 2011.)

The film focuses on the Cajun Latour family, in particular Alexander Napoleon Ulysses Latour, whose youth and innocence personifies the virgin wetlands, recalling the figures of Nanook and Moana from the earlier films.

He'll direct the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, and he's the writer of Disney's next princess tale, Moana, but before we see any of that, he has this New Zealand - made film about a young boy and his uncle who disappear into the bush and cause a national manhunt.

In a year filled with award - worthy animated films, I will predict that Kubo is the only film that might be able to compete with Moana for the Oscar.

The sequel will go up against Disney's Moana, action film The Great Wall, and an untitled thriller starring Brad Pitt and Marion -LSB-...]

Disney has been on an incredible run of form lately, comfortably outperforming sister studio Pixar over the past five years with films like «Wreck - It Ralph,» «Frozen» and «Zootopia,» and that trend continues with «Moana.»

One wonders if releasing three animated films in one year proved to be a strain on the brain trust, because The Process let «Moana» down.

MOANA Director: Ron Clements, John Musker Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Auli'i Cravalho, Jemaine Clement, Alan Tudyk, Nicole Scherzinger 2016 proved to be extra special for Disney fanatics as Moana is the second film from the Walt Disney Animation Studios this year following ZootMOANA Director: Ron Clements, John Musker Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Auli'i Cravalho, Jemaine Clement, Alan Tudyk, Nicole Scherzinger 2016 proved to be extra special for Disney fanatics as Moana is the second film from the Walt Disney Animation Studios this year following ZootMoana is the second film from the Walt Disney Animation Studios this year following Zootopia.

Restored in 2K with native sounds and traditional songs that Flahertys daughter recorded over a half - century after they shot it, Monica Flaherty's Moana with Sound is a beautiful work of docufiction and an important piece of film history.

• Menken & Friends: 25 Years of Musical Inspiration — Get a front - row seat for an intimate discussion between legendary music composers from classic and future Disney films, including Alan Menken («Beauty and the Beast,» «Aladdin»), Stephen Schwartz («The Hunchback of Notre Dame,» «Pocahontas»), Kristen Anderson - Lopez («Frozen,» Disney's upcoming «Gigantic»), Robert Lopez («Frozen,» Disney's upcoming «Gigantic») and Lin - Manuel Miranda (Disney's upcoming «Moana»).

After this opening drama, we see Gramma Tala (voice of Rachel House, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople») scaring small children of their island by relating ancient stories of sea monsters and such; all except little Moana (voice of Auli'i Cravalho, a Hawaiian high school sophomore making her film debut), who is drawn to the sea, even as a baby.

My take: Two - thousand sixteen is a big year for fans of Walt Disney Animation Studios, because two films are being added to Disney's animated features canon this year, the already - released Zootopia and the upcoming Moana.

Moana is directed by Ron Clements and John Musker — who have helmed six animated films for Disney, including The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), and The Princess and the Frog (2009)-- and draws inspiration from Polynesian culture and mythology.

The Oscars invited a wide ranging class of 2017 animation film nominees to the party Tuesday, from acclaimed studio hits «Moana,» «Zootopia» and «Kubo and the Two Strings,» to Swiss stop - motion drama «My Life as a Zucchini» and the dialogue - free Studio...

After Moana and Queen of Katwe last year, it's the latest chapter in the studio's drive to bring more diversity to their catalogue and using an exclusively Latino cast (including Gael García Bernal and Benjamin Bratt) in a film that will reach such a wide audience feels like another important step.

A visual and auditory feast of a film, Moana navigates the basic princess movie outline but manages to lift it like a boat on an ocean wave at every turn.