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Maui (Moana)
Maui () is a fictional character that appears in the 2016 Walt Disney Animation Studios animated film ''Moana (2016 film), Moana''. He was created by directors Ron Clements and John Musker and is voiced by American actor Dwayne Johnson. Maui is loosely based on the mythological figure Māui in Polynesian mythology. He is characterized as a demigod, trickster and shapeshifter and is distinguishable by his bulky tattooed body, thick, flowing hair and magical fish hook that allows him to shapeshift into various creatures. Maui's tattoos recount his deeds and feature an animated miniature version of himself that pokes fun at his overinflated ego. The character returns in the sequel film ''Moana 2'', which premiered in November of 2024. Johnson will also portray Maui in the Live action, live-action remake of ''Moana'', which is scheduled for release in 2026. In ''Moana'', the title character Moana (character), Moana (Auliʻi Cravalho) sets sail to seek Maui in order to save her isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moana (franchise)
''Moana'' (also known as ''Vaiana'' or ''Oceania'' in some markets) is a Disney media franchise that originally started in 2016 with the release of the American animated feature film ''Moana (2016 film), Moana'', produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The franchise consists of two animated films, ''Moana (2016 film), Moana'' (2016) and its sequel ''Moana 2'' (2024), as well as a Moana (2026 film), live-action remake adaptation of the 2016 film, scheduled to be released on July 10, 2026. Films Animated films ''Moana'' (2016) After directing ''The Princess and the Frog'' (2009), Clements and Musker started working on an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's ''Mort'', but problems with acquiring the necessary film rights prevented them from continuing with that project. To avoid a recurrence of that issue, they pitched three original ideas. The genesis of one of those ideas (the one that was ultimately green-light, green-lit) occurred in 2011, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auliʻi Cravalho
Chloe Auliʻi Cravalho (; born November 22, 2000) is an American actress and singer. She made her acting debut as the voice of the title character in the Disney animated musical film '' Moana'' (2016) and reprised her role in the 2024 sequel. Cravalho has had leading roles in the drama series '' Rise'' (2018), the drama film '' All Together Now'' (2020), the supernatural comedy '' Darby and the Dead'' (2022), the sci-fi series '' The Power'' (2023), and the 2024 film adaptation of '' Mean Girls: The Musical''. She has also acted in several theatrical productions, including '' Evita'' (2023) in London and ''Cabaret'' (2024) on Broadway. Early life and education Cravalho was born in Kohala, Hawaii, and is of Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Puerto Rican, Portuguese, and Irish descent. Her parents Dwayne and Puanani "ran a construction company and divorced when she was young". At the time she made her breakthrough, she was living in Mililani, Hawaii, with her mother and was in her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Ribon
Pamela Ribon (born April 4, 1975) is an Academy Award-nominated American screenwriter, author, blogger and actress. She created, wrote, and performed in the short film '' My Year of Dicks'' (2022), which was nominated for the 95th Academy Awards under the category Best Animated Short Film and based on her memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn't Share In Public)''. In November 2014, she found a Barbie book from 2010 titled ''I Can be a Computer Engineer''. She decried elements of the book where Barbie appeared to be reliant on male colleagues. Mattel has since ceased publishing the book. Also known as ''Pamie'' and ''Wonder Killer'', she runs the website pamie.com. She was one of the original recappers for Television Without Pity. Her commencement address for the 2019 College of Fine Arts graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin was praised by Texas Monthly. Films and TV Bibliography * ''Slam: The Next Jam!'' original comic series co-created with Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Bush
Jared Bush (born June 12, 1974) is an American filmmaker, who has served as the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2024. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing the company's animated films '' Zootopia'' (2016), its upcoming sequel '' Zootopia 2'' (2025) and '' Encanto'' (2021), with the latter he won an Academy Award for the Best Animated Feature, and writing the screenplays for '' Moana'' (2016), its sequel '' Moana 2'' (2024) and the 2026 upcoming live-action remake. He also co-created and executive produced the Disney XD animated series '' Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero''. Early life and education Bush was born and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He graduated Harvard University, which he earned his Bachelor of arts degree. Career Bush was originally hired by Walt Disney Animation Studios on a "provisional eight-week contract". He joined the '' Zootopia'' project early on, before it evolved from a spy film into a police procedural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron And Jordan Kandell
Aaron and Jordan Kandell (both born June 16, 1982) are identical twin American screenwriters and journalists. They were born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and studied film and creative writing at the University of Southern California. They have written numerous original feature film and television projects for Fox Animation, Disney Animation, Warner Brothers Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Legendary and Paramount Pictures. The Kandell brothers were on the 2013 Young and Hungry List and their screenplay ''The Golden Record'' was on the 2013 Black List. They also served as screenwriters on Disney Animation's '' Moana''. The Kandells wrote the spec script that was turned into the film '' Adrift'' (2018), directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Shailene Woodley Shailene Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. She first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series '' The Secret Life of the American Teenager'' (2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What We Do In The Shadows
''What We Do in the Shadows'' is a 2014 New Zealand mockumentary comedy horror film written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and the first installment in the ''What We Do in the Shadows'' franchise. The film also stars Clement and Waititi, along with Jonathan Brugh, Ben Fransham, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Rutherford, and Jackie van Beek. The film's plot concerns several vampires who live together in a flat in Wellington. '' What We Do in the Shadows'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. It was released theatrically on 18 August 2014 by Madman Entertainment and received critical acclaim. The film earned $6.9 million on a $1.6 million budget. Plot A documentary crew follows four vampire housemates—Viago, Vladislav, Deacon, and Petyr—who share a flat in the Wellington suburb of Te Aro. All of the vampires possess supernatural powers, including levitation and the ability to transform into animals. Viago is a 17th-century dandy who o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taika Waititi
Taika David Cohen (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi ( ), is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian. Known for quirky comedy films and expanding his career as a voice actor and producer on numerous projects, he has received many accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine named him one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. His feature films ''Boy (2010 film), Boy'' (2010) and ''Hunt for the Wilderpeople'' (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film. Waititi's 2003 short film ''Two Cars, One Night'' earned him an Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the horror comedy film ''What We Do in the Shadows'' (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which was adapted into a What We Do in the Shadows (TV series), television series of the same name in 2019. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Grit (novel)
''True Grit'' is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within ''The Saturday Evening Post''. The novel is told from the perspective of an elderly spinster named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time a half century earlier when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics to be "one of the great American novels." ''True Grit'' is included in the Library of America of Portis' ''Collected Works.'' The novel was adapted for the screenplay of the 1969 film '' True Grit'' starring John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glen Campbell. Six years later, in 1975, Wayne reprised his Academy Award-winning role as the tough hard drinking one-eyed lawman in the sequel film '' Rooster Cogburn''. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed another film adaptation of ''True Grit''. In November 2010, The Overlook Press published a movie tie-in edition of the second film version of ''True Grit' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter ( ; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering, and has served as the head of animation at Skydance Animation since 2019. Lasseter began his career as an animator with The Walt Disney Company. After being fired from Disney for promoting computer animation, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on then-ground breaking usage of Computer-generated imagery, CGI animation. The Graphics Group of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and became Pixar in 1986. Lasseter oversaw all of Pixar's films and associated projects. He personally directed ''Toy Story'' (1995), ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''Cars (film), Cars'' (2006), and ''Cars 2'' (2011), and executive-produced all other Pixar f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Choice Awards
The Teen Choice Awards were an annual awards show that aired on the Fox television network between 1999 and 2019. The awards, based on a popularity vote that could be overridden by the producerswho reserved the right to choose the winnerscovered over 250 different categories during its run, stated as honoring the year's biggest achievements in music, film, sports, television, fashion, social media, and more. Votes were submitted by viewers living in the United States, aged 13 and over, through various social media sites. The awards show has been on an indefinite hiatus since the 2019 edition. History Executive producers, Bob Bain and Michael Burg, came together to create an award show geared toward a teen demographic, somewhat older than that of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, but similar to that of MTV. The format of the show has remained the same over the years, awarding the achievements of those in the entertainment and athletic industries with non-traditional categor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
