CHICAGO - Animated movies exist both to comfort us and challenge us — sometimes at the same time. Despite the hurdles of the pandemic, 2021 delivered a great slate of animated features aimed at ...

For Luca, director Enrico Casarosa wanted to show how friendships impact children in most positive ways. Based on his own memories of meeting his childhood best friend, Luca is about how a real ...

The next Pixar film from Disney is now streaming, and "Luca" is the tale of a teenage boy coming of age on the Italian Riviera during a magical summer of adventure in a seaside town. It's a universal ...

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. His name is Luca. He lives on the ocean floor. If ...

Long before sketching his path into animation, Italian director Enrico Casarosa was a timid boy from Genoa whose family sheltered him. Adventure eventually beckoned by way of his childhood best friend ...

Disney and Pixar's 2021 film Luca reportedly almost featured a canonically queer character. A subset of viewers thought that the relationship between the movie's two leads Luca (Jacob Tremblay) and ...

“Luca” fulfills Pixar’s mandate of expanding its boundaries. The animated film, directed by Enrico Casarosa, is set in Italy, but the storytelling is influenced by Japanese films, especially the works ...

A “Luca” spinoff animated short from Disney and Pixar will premiere this week. “Ciao Alberto,” featuring a main characters from the Disney and Pixar film “Luca,” debuts on Disney+ Friday, Nov. 12.

Disney’s “Luca” is the first Hollywood picture to get a release in China in weeks, but its opening figures didn’t make that big of a splash — at least, not close to enough to douse the continued reign ...

Join Salon Food columnist Kayla Stewart as she explores the "Tastes of Comfort" that can be found through food. What happens when a young sea monster in search of adventure, friendship and a few ...