Illumination is about to have a very good 2023. What else is there? (Also this is the Japanese release date, but we’re certain that a domestic distributor will come along soon.)Īriana DeBose to Lead Disney’s ‘Wish,’ Inspired by the Iconic Wishing Star “Migration” (Illumination, December 22) All you really need to know is that it’s a new Hayao Miyazaki movie. The only materials released so far are elliptical posters that don’t say much of anything. Hayao Miyazaki un-retires one last time! The 81-year-old Japanese animation master, the closest thing that country has to Walt Disney, returns after his last supposedly-final film, 2013’s brilliant “The Wind Rises.” “How Do You Live” is ostensibly an adaptation of a beloved 1937 novel by Yoshino Genzaburo, but word is that Miyazaki’s adaptation will also include allusions to characters’ relationship to the original book.

“How Do You Live” (Studio Ghibli, July 14 in Japan) (If this isn’t the Pixar-iest sounding Pixar movie ever, we don’t know what is.) After a charming presentation at last year’s D23 Expo where Sohn talked about how his personal experience informed the movie and an even-more-charming first teaser trailer, we are very much looking forward to this unconventional love story. Directed by longtime Pixar mainstay Pete Sohn and based on his experience growing up in 1970s New York with immigrant parents, “Elemental” takes place in a technologically advanced city where the elements are personified and where two opposites – a fire-lady named Ember (Leah Lewis) and a water man named Wade (Mamoudou Athie) fall in love. Pixar is in the midst of a mini-renaissance and “Elemental” looks like it’ll be another knockout.

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