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RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN | New Trailer

Dir: Kirk DeMicco Star: Lana Condor / Toni Collette / Annie Murphy

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Trailer

Ruby Gillman is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High. She tutors her crush in math, but he doesn’t seem interested in her otherwise, and she can’t hang out with the cool kids at the beach because her mom forbade her from ever getting in the water. One day, though, Ruby breaks her mom’s rule and discovers that she is a descendant of warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas. For eons Krakens protect the oceans from the power-hungry Mermaids. To make matters worse, Chelsea, the new popular girl at Oceanside High, is a mermaid. “Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.” (Universal Pictures)

DreamWorks Animation’s Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken stars Lana Condor (Ruby Gillman), Jaboukie Young-White, Toni Collette, Jane Fonda, Annie Murphy, Colman Domingo, Sam Richardson, and Blue Chapman. Kirk DeMicco directs.

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken hits theaters in Summer 2023.

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

directed by Kirk DeMicco, 2023

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RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN is now in theaters

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

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What I’m watching (2023 Edition) || The Croods (2013)

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Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken- A Fun Teenage Coming of Age Film Set Among Sea Monsters

DreamWorks have created three f the biggest animated franchises in history with the Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon, and  Kung Fu Panda franchises. They have a great track record with animated films. So they are hoping to strike gold once again with Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken It’s a new animated movie geared towards teenage girls.  Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is an average Teenage girl who goes…

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RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN | Trailer & Poster

This summer, DreamWorks Animation dives into the turbulent waters of high school with a hilarious, heartfelt action comedy about a shy teenager who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens and that her destiny, in the depths of the oceans, is bigger than she ever dreamed.

Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible.

She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White, Ralph Breaks the Internet), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom (Oscar® nominee Toni Collette, Knives Out), has forbade Ruby from ever getting in the water.

But when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother (Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda), the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas.

The Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons. There’s one major, and immediate, problem with that: The school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea (Emmy winner Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek) just happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken stars an extraordinary cast that includes Emmy winner Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead) as Ruby’s supportive dad, Emmy nominee Sam Richardson (Veep) as Ruby’s enthusiastic uncle and Blue Chapman (Council of Dads) as Ruby’s cool little brother.

Directed by Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Kirk DeMicco (Vivo, The Croods) and produced by Kelly Cooney Cilella (Trolls World Tour, Trolls), with Faryn Pearl (The Croods: A New Age, Trolls World Tour) serving as co-director, the film features a comedic powerhouse supporting cast, including Emmy nominee Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth), Emmy nominee Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), YouTube Diamond creator Liza Koshy (Liza on Demand), Ramona Young (Never Have I Ever), Eduardo Franco (Stranger Things) and Echo Kellum (Arrow).

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The Croods (2013)

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Vivo (2021)

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken New Trailer

Ruby Gillman is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High. She tutors her crush in math, but he doesn’t seem interested in her otherwise, and she can’t hang out with the cool kids at the beach because her mom forbade her from ever getting in the water. One day, though, Ruby breaks her mom’s rule and discovers that she is a descendant of warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas. For eons Krakens protect the oceans from the power-hungry Mermaids. To make matters worse, Chelsea, the new popular girl at Oceanside High, is a mermaid. “Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.” (Universal Pictures) 

 DreamWorks Animation’s Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken stars Lana Condor (Ruby Gillman), Jaboukie Young-White, Toni Collette, Jane Fonda, Annie Murphy, Colman Domingo, Sam Richardson, and Blue Chapman. Kirk DeMicco directs with co-director Faryn Pearl..

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken hits theaters on June 30, 2023.

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Title: The Croods

Rating: PG

Director: Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke, Chris Sanders, Randy Thom, Eiza González

Release year: 2013

Genres: comedy, adventure, action, family, fantasy

Blurb: The world’s first family embarks on the journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Travelling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures...and their outlook is changed forever.

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The next new Dreamworks cg property is about anthropomorphic krakens vs. mermaids with the krakens being the protagonist side

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/teenage-kraken-dreamworks-kirk-demicco-226970.html (I get the feeling the plot will be about neither side being the bad guys)

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Having now seen THE WILD ROBOT, and also seeing how it's on track to be another success for DreamWorks, I think the takeaway is... If you're gonna make a big sci-fi animated movie (read: something that cost about $60m to make) that'll make its money back, you gotta have appealing robots and some kind of cuddliness, lol. This movie and WALL-E are among the only big studio science-fiction animated movies that aren't infamous box office bombs. LILO & STITCH - also from WILD ROBOT director Chris Sanders, whose sci-fi elements I consider dressing, could count too.

Not like TITAN A.E., ATLANTIS, TREASURE PLANET, LIGHTYEAR, STRANGE WORLD, and possibly - sadly - TRANSFORMERS ONE. Where it's a lot of heavy metal, action, explosions, etc. that seems to - at first glance - overpower what's really there to someone who hasn't seen those movies. At least, from a marketing standpoint. LILO & STITCH's marketing campaign was legendary for emphasizing just how weird and different Stitch the blue alien was in comparison to previous Disney lead characters, WALL-E's campaign focused on the robot romance and pantomime storytelling, THE WILD ROBOT on nature, motherhood, connection, and survival.

In fact, having both TRANSFORMERS ONE and WILD ROBOT open opposite each other illustrates that dichotomy quite nicely. One movie is perceived as "boy-centric", recalling those similar sci-fi action animated movies of the aughts, the other not so much.

ELIO, next summer, has the sorta "kid on a big adventure" story, who happens to be a boy. What the story does with the aunt character remains to be seen, though. Given that that's a Pixar production, it's gonna have to double the opening weekend gross of WILD ROBOT in order to have some shot at not being deemed a flop... Absurd, huh? No original animated movie, post-COVID outbreak, should be expected to achieve that.

Walt Disney, by around the late 1950s, had surmised that *mom* was the person you had to appeal to when making a big budget animated movie of that caliber. Because she takes the whole family with her, and then tells her friends (some of them moms, too), and her friends tell all their friends, etc. The whole family, the wide net... THE WILD ROBOT and its Mama Robot story got the moms, TRANSFORMERS ONE seemingly didn't. That may or may not be a full explanation, but it's what this all reminded me of...

Chris Sanders has already spoken of a WILD ROBOT sequel in interviews, and there are two book sequels to WILD ROBOT. Given how the movie ends, and given that those two books exist? Absolutely. I really do think it's a matter of "when". Barely any successful DreamWorks movies didn't get sequels. SHARK TALE is a rare example of this. The movie was a hit in 2004, made $370m+ worldwide against its $75m budget, but never got a two for whatever reason. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS, sci-fi flavored, barely eked out, didn't get a sequel either. HOME, another alien/sci-fi type, also didn't get a two. But most of the time, their profitable movies get at least one sequel. So, I expect THE WILD ROBOT ESCAPES to be a priority.

On the prospect of Chris directing... Chris didn't direct the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON sequels. Dean DeBlois, who directed the first one w/ Chris and also LILO & STITCH, took over and - interestingly - is directing next year's live-action take on the original source material. Chris was to direct the sequel to his THE CROODS, but didn't. He and Kirk DeMicco did the original, Kirk didn't return either. DreamWorks, upon being acquired by Comcast in 2016, put their version of the movie on ice after some complications with the story. Chris went off to 20th Century to direct THE CALL OF THE WILD, Kirk landed at Sony Animation and took on VIVO... DreamWorks decided to revive THE CROODS 2, and gave it to Joel Crawford to direct, though Chris and Kirk still contributed story material and it appears that the movie is based on their original version that got canned in 2016.

Which leads me to ask... Does Chris return for WILD ROBOT ESCAPES? Or takes on a new project at DreamWorks? Possibly an adaptation of his comic KISKALOO? He's been making features there for so long now, but it would be really cool if... Now that they're under new and possibly leadership, he makes a grand return to Walt Disney Animation Studios and gets at least one more movie out there? To make up for how his AMERICAN DOG got John Lasseter-ized into BOLT? One can dream, lol. Either way, I'm excited for what he'll do next.