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Eric Vilas-Boas

Editor, Streamliner at Vulture

ON PARENTAL LEAVE 🍼 | @strmlnr editor @Vulture | member @NYMagUnion + @wgaeast | 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 | animation evangelist | he/him

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  • 1 week ago | vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas

    This story ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry.

  • 3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas

    Max is following Netflix and Disney’s lead in rolling out new “extra member” plans. If you have friends or relatives mooching off your Max account to watch The Last of Us, they’ll probably get an uncomfortable message before tuning into next week’s episode. Warner Bros.

  • 1 month ago | vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas

    In the middle of one of their most crunched productions, Studio Ghibli’s masters showed a young French animator the ropes. Hayao Miyazaki does not announce himself — he appears. Or at least that’s how the director revealed himself to animation student David Encinas on the street during 1993’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. “Some classmates were on the other side of the street, and suddenly, I see them pointing.

  • 2 months ago | vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas

    This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Around this time last year, boutique animation distributor GKIDS was riding an Oscars high.

  • Feb 4, 2025 | vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas

    A half-hour of previews and a commute ballooned the last movie I saw in a theater — the cozy two-hour-and-12-minute Nosferatu — well past a three-hour time commitment. The standard trailers, the Noovie trivia crap, and, more recently, product ads (Pepsi? Honda?? Chick-fil-A???) that now run before feature presentations all feel longer, louder, and more annoying than ever before.

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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social
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4 Apr 25

RT @StreetsblogNYC: Fact check: Four million people take the subway per day in New York City. 90 percent of commuters that work in the Con…

Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social
Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social @e_vb_
29 Mar 25

For the weekend crowd... I spoke with a former Studio Ghibli artist this week about what it was like to do actual hand-drawn work there.

Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social
Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social @e_vb_

On the occasion of the re-release of PRINCESS MONONOKE... I spoke with David Encinas — one of the few Western animators to ever work for Studio Ghibli alongside artists like Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Some of my favorite bits from our convo... 1/ https://t.co/ZOfZLn1Onk

Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social
Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social @e_vb_
27 Mar 25

RT @NYMag: In the middle of production on ‘Princess Mononoke,’ Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s masters showed a young French animator th…