EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing a sequel to 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' with Jim Carrey in talks to reprise his role as the Grinch and Ron Howard returning to direct. https://t.co/wxvslZdCxu pic.twitter.com/Nc9pcijsmO
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 18, 2026
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TCTTS said:EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing a sequel to 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' with Jim Carrey in talks to reprise his role as the Grinch and Ron Howard returning to direct. https://t.co/wxvslZdCxu pic.twitter.com/Nc9pcijsmO
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 18, 2026
Pssst, hey Hollywood........ START DEVELOPING SOME NEW IP INSTEAD OF BEATING THE OLD ONES INTO THE GROUND! If you haven't noticed, the past month has been nothing but new IP from new filmmakers mopping the floor with your tired ideas.
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At the very least, go hire the Grinch from Universal Florida. That guy is far better than Jim Carrey.FL_Ag1998 said:TCTTS said:EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing a sequel to 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' with Jim Carrey in talks to reprise his role as the Grinch and Ron Howard returning to direct. https://t.co/wxvslZdCxu pic.twitter.com/Nc9pcijsmO
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 18, 2026
Pssst, hey Hollywood........ START DEVELOPING SOME NEW IP INSTEAD OF BEATING THE OLD ONES INTO THE GROUND! If you haven't noticed, the past month has been nothing but new IP from new filmmakers mopping the floor with your tired ideas.
I have 3 original movie ideas that are all well thought out and original. If I can do that, I'd imagine everyone on this thread has 3-5 as well. I just don't understand why these "creatives" can't actually create anything.
It's not the ideas, it's the funding. Studios don't want to take risks so they stay safe/repetitive/generally boring.
Same reason we most often see breakout films in horror, they're generally cheap to make so you can afford to take a risk.
Same reason we most often see breakout films in horror, they're generally cheap to make so you can afford to take a risk.
TCTTS said:EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing a sequel to 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' with Jim Carrey in talks to reprise his role as the Grinch and Ron Howard returning to direct. https://t.co/wxvslZdCxu pic.twitter.com/Nc9pcijsmO
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 18, 2026
Now THIS is a teaser trailer.
Holy hell.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31450459/
October 2, 2026
Theatrical Wide
Holy hell.
Digger
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31450459/
October 2, 2026
Theatrical Wide
Bang, bang, bang! Trailer drops July 13th. pic.twitter.com/HbgPnXZQcE
— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) June 23, 2026
With this EXCLUSIVE poster for DIGGER, we officially have a trailer date for Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy of catastrophic proportions. Trailer drops July 13, with the film only in theaters this October. #FilmedforIMAX pic.twitter.com/5UG7cT6qoK
— Digger (@diggerthemovie) June 23, 2026
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I guess this is officially the start of the "give Tom Cruise an Oscar already" campaign for this movie.
Awesome Teaser trailer indeed!!
God I love Tom Cruise!
I don't get it. I still have no idea what the actual movie Digger is about. I know what all his previous movies were about. Great. But I'm supposed to go see this new movie based off previous role iconic movies, roles, and lines? To me that's a really cheap attempt by the studio to play off of Cruise's history, and its a little concerning they still aren't really showing me the actual movie and instead trying to convince me based simply on "Look everyone, we got Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise over here!! Tom Cruise is in our movie!".
I do like one of the co-stars in his movie a lot, Riz Ahmed. But this director is hit or miss to me.
I do like one of the co-stars in his movie a lot, Riz Ahmed. But this director is hit or miss to me.
Dude, it's a teaser trailer. We're still months away. You're not supposed to fully know what the movie is about yet. It's more to announce that this big, mysterious thing is coming, create intrigue, etc. Notice how they simultaneously announced when the full trailer is releasing, on July 13th? THAT'S the one that, if effective, will tell you about the plot/character, get you into the theater, etc.
I guess in that regard, and in retrospect, no teaser trailer has ever really done much for me. This one just seemed excessive because it wasn't just a teaser trailer, it was 2 and a half full minutes of clips from old Cruise movies. But that's just me, it takes a little more for me to get excited about a project, Cruise or no Cruise. I'll be the sourpuss here, lol.
veryfuller said:
I guess this is officially the start of the "give Tom Cruise an Oscar already" campaign for this movie.
This is exactly what the teaser felt like to me. This is Tom Cruise's Oscar movie.
That said. I loved the teaser for what is certainly going to be a weird movie.
9.24.27 pic.twitter.com/hDTW4n2O8z
— Blumhouse (@blumhouse) June 23, 2026
A new Blair Witch Project film, often described as a reboot or reimagining, is in the works, with a release date set for September 24, 2027, leaning into found-footage roots with a new vision for modern audiences. pic.twitter.com/yNbGKCGxLG
— Art Hits Hard (@nightwriter22) June 23, 2026
A new version for modern audiences you say???
Btw, Brad Bird is the director of The Incredibles 1 & 2, The Iron Giant, and Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol...
Sam Rockwell is private investigator Raymond Gunn.
— Netflix (@netflix) June 24, 2026
Scarlett Johansson is multimedia star Venus Nova.
Ray Gunn, a new retrofuturist animated adventure from writer-director Brad Bird, premieres December 18. pic.twitter.com/74CPDk9D8h
More on Brad Bird’s RAY GUNN! 🕵️♂️✨
— What's on Netflix (@whatonnetflix) June 24, 2026
▪️ Drops Dec 18, 2026 on Netflix 🗓️
▪️ 30-year passion project sparked by a misheard B-52s song 🎶
▪️ Vibe: "1939's vision of the future" — Art Deco meets gritty noir 🏙️
▪️ Cast: Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson & Tom Waits 🎙️
▪️ 100% pure… pic.twitter.com/xfrRI8BFdm
TCTTS said:
Btw, Brad Bird is the director of The Incredibles 1 & 2, The Iron Giant, and Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol...Sam Rockwell is private investigator Raymond Gunn.
— Netflix (@netflix) June 24, 2026
Scarlett Johansson is multimedia star Venus Nova.
Ray Gunn, a new retrofuturist animated adventure from writer-director Brad Bird, premieres December 18. pic.twitter.com/74CPDk9D8hMore on Brad Bird’s RAY GUNN! 🕵️♂️✨
— What's on Netflix (@whatonnetflix) June 24, 2026
▪️ Drops Dec 18, 2026 on Netflix 🗓️
▪️ 30-year passion project sparked by a misheard B-52s song 🎶
▪️ Vibe: "1939's vision of the future" — Art Deco meets gritty noir 🏙️
▪️ Cast: Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson & Tom Waits 🎙️
▪️ 100% pure… pic.twitter.com/xfrRI8BFdm
This is as hyped as I've been for an animated movie since South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
Same release date as Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three. Same weekend as the first round of the college football playoffs. Gonna be crazy.
Still really surprised at this point Marvel doesn't move up the release date a week. They'd get all the IMAX theaters for opening weekend and have zero competition….TCTTS said:
Same release date as Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three. Same weekend as the first round of the college football playoffs. Gonna be crazy.
Yeah, I'm still baffled AS TO why they haven't. Maybe they'll announce as much next month at Comic-Con with the premiere of the new trailer. If not, though? I'LL assume it's staying on the December 18th for good, which is insane.
Can anyone explain to me like I'm an idiot what this means...
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100% pure keyframe animation, ZERO mo-cap!
Mo cap is motion capture. This was the technique used to bring Caesar the ape to life in the recent Planet of the Apes movies.
I don't know about the other, but guessing it is a hand made animation technique.
I don't know about the other, but guessing it is a hand made animation technique.
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Mo cap is motion capture. This was the technique used to bring Caesar the ape to life in the recent Planet of the Apes movies.
I don't know about the other, but guessing it is a hand made animation technique.
Yeah, I'm looking to find out what the difference is and why this would be a big deal.
How much detail do you want?
Short version:
Mocap we're all generally familiar with, someone wearing a suit with sensors that that acts something out, then that data is mapped to a digital character. Not often used in animated films but has been before (Tin Tin being the most famous example, the animated Final Fantasy film is another), very common for video game animation and live action VFX work.
It's also far less automatic than the behind the scenes videos would have you believe and still requires tons of manual work to get the motion looking like it has the correct weight, timing, and details. Go watch something like the LOTR Gollum clips comparing the Andy Serkis mocap to the final animation side by side and you'll see tons of little details that the animators added in.
Keyframe animation is the process of setting a "key" on a certain frame number, a digital character pose that can be everything from hips and legs to fingers and eyelids. Another key is then set on a subsequent frame, and the animator adjusts the curves between the two keys to get the right timing and easing between them. If you've ever seen animation that looked really floaty or weightless, it's usually because the animator didn't set the correct interpolation between frames.
All that said, it's not especially important in this context. Most any Disney/Pixar/Sony film is going to be largely if not completely animated by hand. I'm sure there's some smaller direct to video Netflix type animated films that have used mocap, but I'm not aware of any major animation studio using it outside maybe some for facial animation.
Short version:
Mocap we're all generally familiar with, someone wearing a suit with sensors that that acts something out, then that data is mapped to a digital character. Not often used in animated films but has been before (Tin Tin being the most famous example, the animated Final Fantasy film is another), very common for video game animation and live action VFX work.
It's also far less automatic than the behind the scenes videos would have you believe and still requires tons of manual work to get the motion looking like it has the correct weight, timing, and details. Go watch something like the LOTR Gollum clips comparing the Andy Serkis mocap to the final animation side by side and you'll see tons of little details that the animators added in.
Keyframe animation is the process of setting a "key" on a certain frame number, a digital character pose that can be everything from hips and legs to fingers and eyelids. Another key is then set on a subsequent frame, and the animator adjusts the curves between the two keys to get the right timing and easing between them. If you've ever seen animation that looked really floaty or weightless, it's usually because the animator didn't set the correct interpolation between frames.
All that said, it's not especially important in this context. Most any Disney/Pixar/Sony film is going to be largely if not completely animated by hand. I'm sure there's some smaller direct to video Netflix type animated films that have used mocap, but I'm not aware of any major animation studio using it outside maybe some for facial animation.
Sex Panther said:TCTTS said:
Btw, Brad Bird is the director of The Incredibles 1 & 2, The Iron Giant, and Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol...Sam Rockwell is private investigator Raymond Gunn.
— Netflix (@netflix) June 24, 2026
Scarlett Johansson is multimedia star Venus Nova.
Ray Gunn, a new retrofuturist animated adventure from writer-director Brad Bird, premieres December 18. pic.twitter.com/74CPDk9D8hMore on Brad Bird’s RAY GUNN! 🕵️♂️✨
— What's on Netflix (@whatonnetflix) June 24, 2026
▪️ Drops Dec 18, 2026 on Netflix 🗓️
▪️ 30-year passion project sparked by a misheard B-52s song 🎶
▪️ Vibe: "1939's vision of the future" — Art Deco meets gritty noir 🏙️
▪️ Cast: Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson & Tom Waits 🎙️
▪️ 100% pure… pic.twitter.com/xfrRI8BFdm
This is as hyped as I've been for an animated movie since South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
This is about as hyped as I get for any movie.
Brad Bird has made two animated features that are about as close to perfect as anything that's been made (The Incredibles and The Iron Giant), and this is a project he's been talking about for like two decades. I'm beyond excited to see what he's got in the works.
Gotcha man, thanks!
And yeah, Brad Bird knows what he's doing with animation, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.
And yeah, Brad Bird knows what he's doing with animation, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.
Sure thing! I studied animation for about 5 years and actually am co-creating an animated short film on the side so I can talk about this all day
Very cool! So did Into the Spiderverse blow your mind like it did everyone else or were you like, "Eh, it's a'ight!".
Genuinely mind blowing. I've posted the story before, but I actually saw the first 30 minutes before it released at a talk with Lord and Miller and the directors at a conference in LA. Unreal experience.
I know a few folks who worked on it or the sequel as well, one of our friends who unfortunately hasn't worked on our project (yet) animated the shot where Miles is singing to himself in his room in the beginning.
I know a few folks who worked on it or the sequel as well, one of our friends who unfortunately hasn't worked on our project (yet) animated the shot where Miles is singing to himself in his room in the beginning.