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'It's not good enough just to be Black, we've got to be good': Jamie Foxx, 'Soul' cast talk barrier-breaking film's healing power
Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Angela Bassett, Phylicia Rashad and Questlove weigh in on Pixar's new adventure "Soul," the studio's first with a Black protagonist.
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'Soul' creators go inside Pixar's first African-American-led film: 'Animation is not an industry where there's been a great deal of Black representation'
Pete Docter, Kemp Powers and Dana Murray discuss Pixar’s “shameful” history when it comes to diversity and why the Jamie Foxx-starring new film presents “the chance to correct things.”
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‘The French Dispatch,’ ‘Soul’ Make the Cannes 2020 Lineup As Festival Reveals the Movies It Would Have Shown
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Pete Docter’s “Soul” and two films from Steve McQueen, “Lovers Walk” and “Mangrove” (both from his anthology series “Small Axe”), are among the films that would have gone to this year’s Cannes Film Festival if it had taken place, Cannes organizers announced at a press conference in Paris on Wednesday.While the prestigious festival itself will not happen, those films and 52 others in the 2020 Official Selection will bear the Cannes 2020 label, a way the festi
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Jennifer Lee, Pete Docter to Run Disney Animation, Pixar
Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter will split John Lasseter’s duties at Disney, as the studio’s animation division tries to move forward after the tumultuous departure of its leading creative force. Lee, the director of “Frozen,” has been named chief creative officer at Walt Disney Animation Studios, while Docter, the director of “Inside Out,” has been […]
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Bing Bong Is a Brick-Throwing Rabble-Rouser in 'Inside Out' Deleted Scene
According to his theme song, Inside Out’s breakout character Bing Bong is “your friend who likes to play” — but in early drafts of the screenplay, he also liked to protest authority. In this featurette from the Inside Out Blu-Ray (via Collider), director Pete Doctor presents a deleted scene that shows Bing Bong as “a radical nonconformist,” expressing his outrage at changes inside 11-year-old Riley’s brain. Related: Bing Bong: How Pixar Created ‘Inside Out’s’ Breakout Character As Docter expla