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Elemental. The animated feature based on director Peter Sohn’s childhood in New York will hit theaters June 16, 2023. Produced by Denise Ream ( The Good Dinosaur, Cars 2), Elemental journeys alongside an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together. The fiery young woman and the go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. Disney and Pixar also released concept art (above) for the original film from Sohn. “My parents emigrated from Korea in the early 1970s and built a bustling grocery store in the Bronx. We were among many families who ventured to a new land with hopes and dreams — all of us mixing into one big salad bowl of cultures, languages and beautiful little neighborhoods. That’s what led me to Elemental,” the native New Yorker said in a statement. Sohn also discussed using the basic elements — fire, water, land and air — to animate his feature film. “Some elements mix with each other, and some don’t. What if these elements were alive?” he said. Sohn directed The Good Dinosaur in 2015 for Pixar and the Partly Cloudy short.

Logo text The movie, directed by Rob Savage and produced by 21 Laps, the banner behind Stranger Things, had a surprisingly muscular test screening in December that made studio executives and producers reconsider their release strategy. (They also showed the movie to King, along with the new plans, who gave them a thumbs-up.) The horror thriller will now open in theaters June 2. The move also has echoes of what occurred with Smile, the horror movie directed by Parker Finn that was originally intended for Paramount+, but a strong test screening altered its destiny. The movie, made for only $17 million, received a theatrical release from Paramount last fall and became one of the standard-bearers for the latest rise of horror when it grossed over $216 million worldwide. Horror emerged during the pandemic as the only genre other than superheroes that drew audiences into the theaters. M3GAN, released by Universal, is the latest movie overperforming at the box office and is expected to cross the $100 million worldwide mark any day. A sequel has been fast-tracked. Disney units had some hits of their own that notched high-water marks in the scary movie space. Barbarian, from by 20th Century and partner New Regency, which cost less than $10 million, earned over $40 million domestically while earning rave reviews for its director, Zach Cregger. The more art house than grindhouse thriller The Menu, made by Searchlight, is still in release and has grossed $77 million globally to date. ...