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Why Nimona Got Saved From Disney to Become an Oscar Contender
Nimona went from being a movie that was almost certainly lost to the ether to an Oscar nominee—a story as miraculous as the sumptuous, wildly inventive, and queer as hell film turned out to be when we finally got to see it on Netflix. But it was only allowed to do so when Annapurna helped…
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A Look Inside Nimona’s Long Road to Release
Today Netflix announced that Nimona is finally getting its chance on screen. The story, written by ND Stevenson, is about a shapeshifting girl who convinces her best friend/liege lord to pursue greater and and greater glory, set in a science-fantasy medieval land. So how did we get from webcomic to feature film?
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And Your 2022 Academy Awards Nominations Are…
When the Academy Awards nominees were announced last year, the results were rather underwhelming. There had been so few films of note released in 2020 because they’d been pushed back in hopes of being released in 2021, when the pandemic was over. Well, the pandemic isn’t over, but some studios still decided to bite the…
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Rogue One’s Crew Is Finally Getting the Star Wars Figures They Deserve
Back when Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — and therefore, because it’s a Star Wars movie, its oodles upon oodles of merchandise — was coming out, Hasbro had yet to introduce its game-changing “photoreal” face-printing technology, which meant your action figures of Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, and pals didn’t perhaps look as great as…