blue sky studios
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How Netflix’s Nimona Defied the Odds to Become an Academy Award-Nominated Film
Cinema’s annual awards race comes to a close today during the Academy Awards, and there’s no other story like Nimona’s journey to becoming a nominee in the Best Animated Feature category. Producers Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary sat down with io9 to tell this remarkable tale of second chances. After Nimona’s original studio, Blue Sky,…
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Nimona Is a Hilarious, Visionary Film of Queer Triumph
ND Stevenson’s webcomic finally gets its film adaptation on Netflix, and it was absolutely worth the wait.
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Report: Disney Didn’t Want to See the Nimona Movie’s Gay Kiss
According to Insider, former staffers at the Disney-acquired — and then shuttered — studio Blue Sky were pressured into censoring a same-sex kiss in their animated adaptation of Nimona. The staffers took kiss out of future presentations with Disney executives, although they state that they hoped to include it in the final film. According to…
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Disney Is Closing Blue Sky Studios, Creators of Ice Age
The Walt Disney Company has decided to dissolve Blue Sky, one of its animation studios, starting in April. As a result, production on that studio’s 2022 release Nimona has been cancelled.