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4 weeks 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.
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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.
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2 months ago | 
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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Jan 10, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
Welp, one fewer bundle to worry about. Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery have pulled the plug on Venu, the mega-service that was once set to host a raft of major leagues under one banner, including the NFL, NBA, MLB, college football, and the WNBA, among several others. That’s all gone this week, in the wake of Disney’s play to fold Fubo TV into Hulu + Live TV and take control of 70 percent of the company, earning the Mouse another major stake in the world of sports streaming.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Savannah Salazar |Emily Heller |Eric Vilas-Boas |Brian Tallerico
reading is fundamental 10:30 a.m. A lack of celebrity memoirs doesn’t mean a lack of gossip. the present moment Nov. 27, 2024 Give the gift of Squid Game. streamliner Nov. 26, 2024 That Criterion Closet collection is looking real good. ho ho ho Nov. 15, 2024 Presents for your pop-culture-obsessed friends, loved ones, and enemies. gift guide May 21, 2024 Presents? For summer? Groundbreaking. presents! Dec.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
A collection of the form’s most striking onscreen dentition, from horrifically accurate to freakishly surreal. Like all onscreen dentition, animated teeth test our suspension of disbelief: How real do we expect them to look, and how real do they actually look? Designs too lifelike risk reading as too much — eruptions of anatomic linework that invite parody.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Eric Vilas-Boas
Anime 1 hour ago ‘Studio Ghibli Bento Cookbook’ Conjures Up Totoro, No-Face In Your Lunch Boxes designtaxi.com - Curatorious • 1h Studio Ghibli has long captivated audiences with its mesmerizing stories and unforgettable characters, and now fans can bring that same magic into … Anime 4 hours ago Anime Film Week is Coming to Dubai This Month! uaemoments.com • 4h Get transported into a fantastical realm with Anime Film Week at Cinema Akil this month! Get transported into a fantastical realm...
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
Shōji Kawamori, the prolific director of Macross Plus (in which an AI threatens humanity) predicts the tech is coming for the whole animation industry — including him. Hollywood workers represented by IATSE Local 839 — a.k.a. the Animation Guild — are in active negotiations for the future of their industry. Among the issues on the table is artificial intelligence and whether and how it can be used by studios to create the kinds of imagery once only realized by human hands.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
twist and shout “It’s a miracle it got made and we all survived it.” This story was originally published September 5 and has been updated ahead of Uzumaki’s premiere. For five years, updates on Uzumaki, the highly anticipated anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s acclaimed manga, came at a snail’s pace. Would the supernatural horror teased in 2019 see the light of day or would it be sucked into the cancellation vortex?
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s ahead-of-its-time epic Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust was meant to be the movie that proved action anime could work on the big screen in America. Every Wednesday in August, Vulture will choose a film to watch with readers as part of our Vulture Movie Club. This week’s selection comes from Vulture editor Eric Vilas-Boas, who will begin his screening of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust on Wednesday, August 21, at 7 p.m. ET. Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch the live commentary.
