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Ghost Market Is New Pixar Movie, Announced at D23
Earlier this year, it was reported that Pixar had a new original movie, Ono Ghost Market, in the works based on Asian myths about supernatural bazaars where the living and dead interact. It’s been titled Ghost Market and it’s coming out in theaters in 2028. Disney has March 10 on reserve for a Pixar movie that year.
Originally the project was intended to be a series, but then pivoted to a feature film. Footage today showed a young boy, Kyle, walking into a dark, empty kitchen. He’s just been forced to move to Hawaii by his family. He finds a bowl of warm soup that’s been readily made. But it’s a spooky place. “Hey, do you guys take Apple Pay?” he asks. We then see him on FaceTime telling us that the movie is about “hungry ghosts” and that Ghost Market isn’t like those other scary movies.
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Disney Sets November 2029 Release For ‘Coco 2,’ Centered on a Teenage Miguel
Coco 2 is coming to life.
At the studio’s D23 fan event on Friday night, Benjamin Bratt was on hand to announce he would reprise his role as Ernesto de la Cruz in the sequel, which would be set a few years after the first film and see lead character Miguel as a teenager.
While to most fans the character is a hero, Bratt joked that “to some, he’s a little menace who ruined a career and destroyed a legacy. Ernesto de la Cruz is back for revenge, sending Miguel on an adventure back to the Land of the Dead.” The actor also revealed that the sequel is set for a November 2029 release.
The studio also revealed it would launch the original film the new original Pixar movie Ghost Market, about ghosts and a content creator who goes to Hawaii and discovers the crossroad of the living and the dead. It is expected for 2028. The clip showed a teenager wandering around the store as ramen bowls float into the air and come crashing down around the room. No cast or director was revelaed.
As for Coco 2, former Disney CEO Bob Iger first announced that it was in development last year, saying the movie was in the early stages and a theatrical release was set for 2029. The sequel will bring back members of the creative team from the original film, including director Lee Unkrichn and co-director Adrian Molina, and Mark Nielsen (of Toy Story 4 and Inside Out 2) will produce.
“While the film is just in the initial stages, we know it will be full of humor, heart and adventure, and we can’t wait to share more soon,” Iger said at the time.
The original film was released in 2017, following a 12-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a musician and is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead. While there he seeks out his great-great-grandfather, a deceased musician, to help him convince their family to allow him to play music. Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Bratt and Edward James Olmos led the voice cast.
Coco went on to win two Academy Awards for best animated feature and best original song, “Remember Me,” written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. The sequel is not the only Coco expansion the company has in the works, as Disney is also planning a Coco attraction that is slated to come to Disney California Adventure.
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‘Incredibles 3’ Gets First-Look As the Kids “Take the Spotlight”
It’s time to grab a super suit — Incredibles 3 is on the way.
At the D23 fan event in Anaheim on Friday, Disney debuted a first look at the new film, which is set just a few weeks after Incredibles 2 and will be centered on the superhero kids and their evolving powers. Pixar‘s Pete Docter said it would round out the family’s trilogy and “it’s the kids’ turn to take the spotlight.” Violet and Dash are determined to step out on their own, which is causing some tension with their parents, and Jack-Jack’s powers are getting more out of control as he grows. Docter said they would face off against a supervillain with more powers than all the family put together.
The Incredibles franchise follows a family of superheroes, each with their own special powers. Though they are forced to hide these powers following a government mandate, Mr. and Mrs. Incredible — and their three kids Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack — still find a way to save the world, while also juggling the usual family hi-jinks. Brad Bird wrote the screenplays for and directed the first two films in the franchise, which earned a combined $1.8 billion at the box office and landed a best animated film Oscar for the 2004 original.
Bird also wrote the third film, but Peter Sohn (who previously helmed Elemental and The Good Dinosaur) has taken over as director for the threequel. Incredibles 3 is set to hit theaters June 18, 2028, with franchise stars Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson and Sarah Vowell again leading the voice cast.
Sohn has worked on every one of Bird’s animated movies (including The Incredibles and Incredibles 2) up until this year’s Ray Gunn, an animated sci-fi that Bird directed and is landing on Netflix in December. THR previously reported that Bird has been a mentor to Sohn, and Sohn was specifically chosen to carry The Incredibles torch by Bird and Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter.
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Netflix Responds To Tyra Banks’ Defamation Suit Over ‘Next Top Model’ Docuseries
Netflix‘s move today against Tyra Banks‘ defamation suit probably will not see the former America’s Next Top Model host SMIZE.
Two months after supermodel Banks hit the streamer with a legal action over her depiction in the docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, the Greg Sarando- and Greg Peters-run Netflix has hit the court catwalk with an anti-SLAPP motion to toss the whole thing out.
“These are complaints about ordinary editorial decisions,” the motion filed Friday in L.A. Superior Court exclaims (read it here).
Aiming for an October 30 hearing on its anti-SLAPP and dismissal motion, Netflix’s attorneys at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher skewer Banks’ June 13 filing with Anna Wintour precision.
Friday’s motion adds: “Documentary filmmakers decide whom to interview, what to ask, which answers to include, how to sequence competing accounts, and what to leave on the cutting-room floor. Banks expressly agreed those decisions belonged to the filmmakers. Dissatisfaction with editorial judgments is not actionable defamation.”
In case you’re missing the point Netflix is making about Banks’ complaint, the motion lays it out with unadorned clarity.
“Strip away the Complaint’s rhetoric of ‘manipulation’ and ‘surgical editing,’ and Banks’s theory reduces to a request for more airtime and an edit more to her liking,” the 28-page motion says. “Defamation law does not permit that result, and courts do not second-guess editorial judgments merely because an interview subject would have preferred different ones.”
In a direct statement to Deadline, Netflix reiterated its opposition to Banks’ suit as well as its determination to not only defend Reality Check and its directors (who are named as defendant’s in the model’s suit).
“Directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy are respected documentarians who thoroughly interviewed the people behind America’s Next Top Model,” a Netflix spokesperson told Deadline on Friday. “Tyra Banks was given the opportunity to speak openly about her experience and the creators fairly presented her perspective alongside those of every other participant shown in this documentary. We stand behind Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model and will continue to vigorously defend it.”
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.
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