The Oscar Project
With only one major wide release coming this weekend, it may be up to the limited releases to find anything nominated for an Oscar. There are a few foreign language films in the mix and at least once documentary that could find their names into the Oscar nominations this winter, but other than that, it will be slim pickings for at least another week. Abominable From the creators of the How to Train Your Dragon series comes what could be the beginning of the next big franchise for Dreamworks Animation. The film follows a Yi (Chloe Bennet), a young girl from Shanghai who runs into a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building. After naming the lovable beast Everest, they dedicate themselves to finding a way to return him to the mountain after which he is named before being captured by a wealthy business man (Eddie Izzard) and zoologist (Sarah Paulson) with other plans. This film looks absolutely adorable and while the similarities to 2003's How to Train Your Dragon are striking, (even the poster here looks like it got inspiration from the previous series) I am hopeful that with a different setting and different cast of characters, this new film can find similar success. While there are not as many big name stars in the voice cast here, you may know Bennet from her work as Quake/Daisy Johnson in the ABC television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Yi's friends Peng and Jin are voiced by Albert Tsai and Tenzing Norgay Trainor respectively who have appeared on a number of televisions shows over the last 5 years or so. Trainor's participation in this film is also notable since he is the grandson of Tenzing Norgay, the first person to summit Mount Everest along with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.
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AuthorI'm just a film buff who wants to watch great movies. Where else to find the best, than the list of those nominated by the Academy each year? Archives
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