Vivo (Sony Pictures Animation, 2020)

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‘Croods’ Director Kirk DeMicco Jumps to Sony For Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Vivo’.

Now that Dreamworks has killed the Croods sequel, the directors of the film—Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco—have to look for new jobs. The dessert-loving DeMicco seems to have found his next gig: directing an animated musical by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda (Music MOANA) at Sony Pictures Animation.

The film, entitled Vivo, was announced today and has been fast-tracked by Sony Pictures Animation president Kristine Belson, who herself left Dreamworks after the film she was producing, B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations, was canned.

According to Deadline, which broke the news, Miranda’s Vivo was also set up at Dreamworks around six years ago, before the Pulitzer-winning playwright had hit it big with Hamilton, but was garnering Hollywood’s attention for an earlier stage production, In The Heights. The story follows a music-loving capuchin monkey who travels from Havana, Cuba to Miami to become a musical star. The film will contain 11 songs written by Miranda.

The original idea for the film came from High School Musical franchise creator Peter Barsocchini, and the new film script is being written by Miranda’s stage collaborator Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights)

Lisa Stewart (Turbo, Monsters vs Aliens) will produce; Laurence Mark will exec produce. Artist-turned-exec Mike Moon, who is now Sony Animation’s senior vice president of creative affairs, will oversee the project for the studio along with Belson.

Sony is eyeing a December 18, 2020 release date for Vivo.

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From Deadline Hollywood

Sony Animation’s Lin-Manuel Miranda Musical Pic ‘Vivo’ Headed To Netflix

By Anthony D'Alessandro
April 26, 2021 3:59pm

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has licensed all global rights, sans China, to Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo. The movie, directed by Oscar nominee Kirk DeMicco (The Croods) and co-directed by Brandon Jeffords (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2) with new songs written and performed by Tony-winning Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, was recently scheduled for a theatrical release on June 4. The new drop date on Netflix is still to be determined.

I understand this is a similar deal to Netflix’s pickup of Sony’s Kevin Hart movie Fatherhood whereby Netflix gets the first window, which is streaming, and Sony will retain home entertainment and linear TV rights to all other territories, including China theatrical, after the pic’s exclusive run on the streamer.


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Note the recent licensing of Sony’s Vivo by Netflix is outside the streamer’s new multi-year $1 billion deal with the Culver City studio. That deal commences in 2022, as previously reported, and provides an exclusive window for Sony’s theatrical titles to Netflix. In addition, the streamer has a first-look deal for any direct-to-streaming titles Sony is contemplating.

Vivo follows a one-of-kind kinkajou (aka a rainforest “honey bear”), voiced by Miranda, who spends his days playing music to the crowds in a lively Havana square with his beloved owner Andrés (Buena Vista Social Club’s Juan de Marcos González). Though they may not speak the same language, Vivo and Andrés are the perfect duo through their common love of music. But when tragedy strikes shortly after Andrés receives a letter from the famous Marta Sandoval (Grammy-winner Gloria Estefan), inviting her old partner to her farewell concert in Miami with the hope of reconnecting, it’s up to Vivo to deliver a message that Andrés never could: A love letter to Marta, written long ago, in the form of a song. Yet in order to get to the distant shores of Miami, Vivo will need to accept the help of Gabi (newcomer Ynairaly Simo) – an energetic tween who bounces to the beat of her own offbeat drum.

Vivo is written by DeMicco and Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, who wrote the book for Miranda’s Tony-winning Broadway musical In the Heights.

Producers of Vivo are Lisa Stewart (Turbo), Michelle Wong (Surf’s Up 2) and Oscar winner Rich Moore (Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph). Miranda serves as EP alongside Golden Globe winner Laurence Mark (Dreamgirls) and Louis Koo Tin Lok (The Mitchells vs. the Machines). Vivo‘s composer and executive music producer is Tony and Grammy winner Alex Lacamoire (The Greatest Showman), who has teamed with Miranda on various projects since their initial partnership on Broadway’s In the Heights. Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins served as visual consultant.


Said Miranda, “Bringing Vivo to life has been an incredible artistic journey. I couldn’t ask for better creative partners than Kirk, Quiara, Alex and the entire team at Sony Animation. I’m so excited Vivo will have a home at Netflix, where kids of all ages will be able to enjoy the film’s songs and adventures again and again.”

Miranda dropped a new trailer last night during the Oscars to his upcoming Warner Bros./HBO Max June 11 title In the Heights, which is the feature adaptation of his Tony-award winning Broadway musical.

DeMicco added, “Inspired by the words and music of Lin-Manuel, Quiara and Alex, hundreds of artists at Sony Pictures Animation worked through uncharted and difficult times, bringing passion and beauty to every frame of the film. And as a musical, Vivo is a love letter to Latin music and this movie couldn’t exist without the heartfelt work of our vocal talent, including Gloria Estefan, Juan de Marcos, Zoe Saldana, Brian Tyree Henry, Ynairaly Simo and many others. I speak for everyone who helped make Vivo when I say we couldn’t be happier that our film can soon be enjoyed safely by millions of families on Netflix.”

“We are thrilled to once again be working with our friends at Netflix to ensure that Vivo, a film that we love so much, can be released and enjoyed by millions around the globe in the near future. We congratulate the incredible team behind Vivo, a movie about family, friendship, new beginnings, and the power of song. We can’t wait to share this unforgettable musical journey,” said Sony Pictures Animation President Kristine Belson.

“Vivo is full of comedy and heart. We’re excited to introduce families to the incredible cast of characters led by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who lends his voice to a lead animated feature role for the first time. This also allows us to continue our partnership with the incredible artists at Sony Pictures Animation and bring a story that celebrates the universal language of music to families around the world,” said Netflix VP Original Animation Melissa Cobb.

Vivo also features the voices of Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy) as Gabi’s mother, Rosa; Michael Rooker as a villainous Everglades python, Lutador; Brian Tyree Henry and Nicole Byer as a pair of star-crossed spoonbills; Leslie David Baker as a Florida bus driver; and Katie Lowes, Olivia Trujillo and Lidya Jewett as a trio of well-meaning but overzealous scout troopers.

Vivo‘s departure leaves Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s sequel Spirit Untamed and New Line/HBO Max’s Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It as the only wide releases that June 4 frame. Those two movies follow in the wake of the Memorial Day weekend release of Disney’s Cruella and Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II.

Vivo joins Netflix’s growing slate of animated films and acquisitions such as Spongebob: Sponge on the Run (excluding North America); as well as this year’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines and Wish Dragon, both from Sony Pictures Animation. They complement Netflix’s original slate of animated features that includes Oscar-nominated Klaus, Kris Pearn’s The Willoughbys, Glen Keane’s Oscar-nominated Over the Moon, Back to the Outback directed by Clare Knight and Harry Cripps, Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure, Chris Williams’ The Sea Beast, Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild, Nora Twomey’s My Father’s Dragon, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Wendy Rogers’ The Magician’s Elephant and an Aardman sequel to Chicken Run.



Source:https://deadline.com/2021/04/sony-an...ix-1234744464/

[Himmel]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qCWnBaVshG0

[CrazyBlu-RayFan]

Official MPA Rating: PG for Some Thematic Elements and Mild Action

[Bubbles-11]

Comes out on August 6th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnNM4C3i_V8

[Farerb]

Her hair and clothes are horrendous.

[Bubbles-11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOe8L69JpVI

[BluBonnet]

I wonder if this will be more popular than his last musical....

[Farerb]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

I wonder if this will be more popular than his last musical....

Why would it be? Netflix barely markets it and I don't think most people are even aware it exists.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by farerb

Why would it be? Netflix barely markets it and I don't think most people are even aware it exists.

Well, that's not a good start!

[Farerb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZv...ature=youtu.be

[BluBonnet]

I just found out some theaters are playing it right now.

[unberechenbar]

Had no idea that Sony had an animation studio.

[BluBonnet]

So, a few thoughts on Vivo. It may be one of the best movies Sony Animation has done yet, so it's sad it didn't get a regular theatrical release. The songs aren't anything special imho - they're not great but not terrible, either. It's still pretty awesome to have anything sung by Gloria Estefan.

Really hope Sony will eventually release it on physical media.

[WileyWyler]

An awful cartoon for anyone over the age of 6, with one bland alleged “song” after another, and loaded with Latin stereotypes enough to make parents cringe. Not much to enjoy here if you’re an adult—the story is as bland as the characters are characterless. And the storytelling lays there uninspired. Loaded pretty much with nothing BUT third hand tropes from the last two decades of kids cartoons. Like his last cartoon, Smallfoot, dimicco shows he has no knack for engaging an audience beyond what he thinks animation can do. And his bar is very low. Skip it.

[Farerb]

Originally Posted by WileyWyler

An awful cartoon for anyone over the age of 6, with one bland alleged “song” after another, and loaded with Latin stereotypes enough to make parents cringe. Not much to enjoy here if you’re an adult—the story is as bland as the characters are characterless. And the storytelling lays there uninspired. Loaded pretty much with nothing BUT third hand tropes from the last two decades of kids cartoons. Like his last cartoon, Smallfoot, dimicco shows he has no knack for engaging an audience beyond what he thinks animation can do. And his bar is very low. Skip it.

How have you all seen it already?

[Himmel]

https://youtu.be/xBRrFLOo1KE

[Bubbles-11]

Originally Posted by WileyWyler

Like his last cartoon, Smallfoot, dimicco shows he has no knack for engaging an audience beyond what he thinks animation can do. And his bar is very low. Skip it.

Kirk DiMicco did not direct Smallfoot. (Karey Kirkpatrick (Over the Hedge) did.) His last directing job was with The Croods in 2013.

[Stein256]

Originally Posted by WileyWyler

An awful cartoon for anyone over the age of 6, with one bland alleged “song” after another, and loaded with Latin stereotypes enough to make parents cringe. Not much to enjoy here if you’re an adult—the story is as bland as the characters are characterless. And the storytelling lays there uninspired. Loaded pretty much with nothing BUT third hand tropes from the last two decades of kids cartoons. Like his last cartoon, Smallfoot, dimicco shows he has no knack for engaging an audience beyond what he thinks animation can do. And his bar is very low. Skip it.

Have you actually watched the movie?

[VictoryAtNight]

Bought the DVD from Redbox many, many months ago, but still haven’t watched it. Enjoyed the trailer, though.