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Elio Teaser Trailer

Elio is obsessed with space and longs to be abducted by aliens. He gets his wish when he is "beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide. When Elio is mistakenly identified as Earth’s leader, he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who and where he is truly meant to be." (Pixar)

Elio is directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina. The film stars Yonas Kibreab (Elio), Zoe Saldaña (Aunt Olga), Remy Edgerly (Glordon), Brad Garrett (Lord Grigon), Jameela Jamil (Ambassador Questa), and Shirley Henderson (OOOOO).

Elio releases to theaters on June 13, 2025.

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Omelette (2013) [2 min] by Madeline Sharafian | USA

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Title: Burrow

Rating: G

Director: Madeline Sharafian

Cast: N/A

Release year: 2020

Genres: family, comedy

Blurb: A young rabbit embarks on a journey to dig the burrow of her dreams, despite not having a clue what she’s doing.

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Elio (2025), dir. Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian & Adrian Molina

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First look at Disney Pixar’s ELIO directed by Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian, and Adrian Molina.

Cast includes Yonas Kibreab, Jameela Jamil, Brad Garrett, Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly, and Shirley Henderson.

Releasing in theaters June 13th, 2025

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My thoughts on the Pixar announcements at D23:

Elio now being directed by Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian? yyES. I'm predicting now that it'll become one of my fave Pixar movies but most people won't care about it. That's fine.

Hoppers. It looks FUN. It's giving me Turning Red vibes, not just because of the theme girl-turns-into-another-animal, but also because it just seems like a fun and goofy concept and it's not taking itself too seriously. I just want to have fun and then for the story to unexpectedly take a turn and break my heart (see: Luca, Turning Red, Onward)

Toy Story 5. I mean we already knew it was happening and I'm still not a fan. I think obviously it'll be good, but while I will always be up for rewatching Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, I'm already kind of over Toy Story 4, and Toy Story 5 will likely be similar. But I guess a movie doesn't need to go down in history to be good.

Incredibles 3. We didn't know this was happening but I guess we also kind of knew this was happening. I'm more on board with this than Toy Story 5 but I still have mixed feelings. I think Incredibles 2 was amazing but also disappointing because the sequel could've done ANYTHING and it ended up not doing...much. But maybe 3 will do more with e.g. what will the family look like more grown up? OR. And I think this would be more cool. A prequel??

And I'm excited for Win or Lose to finally makes its debut! I think it's going to be very, very good but just because of the way Disney+ series have gone, it'll fly under the radar a bit.

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Elio | Teaser Trailer

Dir: Adrian Molina / Madeline Sharafian / Domee Shi Star: Yonas Kibreab / Zoe Saldana / Brad Garrett

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More dust settling... I'll talk about Pixar some more, given that this was the year a certain Pete Docter quote caught a loooot of fire...

Mainly, him implying that - ahead of the release of INSIDE OUT 2 - Pixar would back down from making more "autobiographical" films like LUCA, TURNING RED, and ELEMENTAL, and going for more "general appeal" sorts of stories.

I read this as Pixar resigning themselves to the sort-of "genre" that some people think they are. Makers of "what-if" movies, "what if [x thing] were alive?" "What if this thing you've heard of was actually like some world/factory/city?" And restraining the filmmakers from telling stories that meant a lot to them.

And yet... The recently-announced HOPPERS, directed by WE BEAR BEARS creator Daniel Chong, seems to contradicts those statements. Now you may be saying, "Obviously HOPPERS began development years ago, so it would be one of their last films in that vein." I know that. I know how these things work. It was in development as far back as 2020, when Chong returned to Pixar.

That being said, significant revisions could've been made thereafter, prior to the rollout at this year's D23.

But, from the looks of it, HOPPERS - which will be the studio's 30th feature, by the way - will follow in the footsteps of LUCA, TURNING RED, and ELEMENTAL. Stylistically, it's a lot different from the usual Pixar look. Apparently Lindsay Olivares, who was production/character designer on THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES at Sony, is all over this one. It looks very wacky and zoogy and cartoony, much more TURNING RED than TOY STORY and FINDING NEMO.

And the premise isn't "what if [x thing] were alive?" Maybe the beaver habitat will have some of that "it's like a city/factory" thing going on, but the main premise is rather out there. Basically AVATAR with beavers, a girl puts a part of her brain into a robo-beaver in order to be among them and ultimately save them from a threat. Chong will probably execute this in a way that's different and very cool.

Then you have ELIO, which had a dramatic director change, but thankfully a release date delay because of it. More time to shape things, and not rush it out under immense pressure. Domee Shi already has BAO and TURNING RED to her name, while Madeline Sharafian has BURROW. It's also worth noting that Adrian Molina, the film's original director, is still at Pixar and is already at work on another film. Sometimes, directors kicked off of their movies during John Lasseter's reign just straight up left the studio. Jan Pinkava, Brad Lewis, Brenda Chapman, to name a few. The latter had WORDS. Molina's still at Pixar, has a new project in the works, and seems to want to stay. It must've been an amicable split.

They both got this, and in the recent interview Pete Docter did for The Wrap, it seemed like they really wanted the movie going forward to emphasize the feeling of being a kid in a big, often scary and intimidating world. Albeit against the backdrop of a cosmic adventure. What he was talking about there was far removed from the corporate-speak talk in the other articles, which were quite cynical to be honest. The Bloomberg one in particular from a few months back, which whined about Pixar's more original movies and posited that SEQUELS would restore their magic... Hunk o' logic right there!

VFX veteran Todd Vaziri put it best, on twitter.

everything about that bloomberg pixar piece is tras it's pro-"content", pro-commerce, anti-art

Couldn't have said it better myself... So, yeah, different Docter when Iger's gun isn't to his head, or the trades having him answer questions specifically.

Weirdly, INSIDE OUT 2... A sequel, and possibly on track to become the highest-grossing animated movie ever, was more creative to me than most of what came out of Disney - across all their film divisions - over the past couple of years. It could've just been a blah rehash of INSIDE OUT, but there were plenty of clever things here, and all the mixed media characters like Bloofy and Lance. Good stuff. It did not, however, restore Pixar's magic in my eyes. Maybe at the box office, but... I still feel TURNING RED is my favorite film to have gotten out of that studio in years, and I really dug SOUL and LUCA, and had great fun with LIGHTYEAR and ELEMENTAL. So yeah, none of that.

Pixar seems fine, really. They continue to do cool stuff, it seems Docter and crew understand that's the way. It's WDAS who I feel are struggling, but I digress. D23 reminded me that they've got some neat stuff coming.

Surely, the sequel announcements make it seem like that's the future... But really, if it were, the announcement of an INCREDIBLES 3 would've been followed by FINDING Somebody, CARS 4, WALL-E 2, ONWARD 2, etc.

In reality, I think INCREDIBLES 3 is a long way off. Brad Bird "developing" it tells me the film is in its Jack-Jack stages. TOY STORY 5 has had a concrete release date for some time and is full steam ahead, INCREDIBLES 3 is different. I'm sure there will be another original between the 2026 release of TOY STORY 5 and whenever INCREDIBLES 3 comes out, granted that it's not the studio's June 2027 picture. Which I kinda doubt it is, but we'll see.

Let's look at both decades...

The 2010s had seven sequels vs. only four originals.

This decade so far and including the announced upcoming films: Four sequels vs. seven originals. Subject to change, a few more originals and maybe one more sequel can sneak in there. But yeah, night and day difference. Pixar doing two pictures every other year allows them to get more originals out. I'm thinking they'll do a spring and summer 2028 thing like they did in 2022 and hope to do in 2026. (They had also planned that for 2020 and this year.) If so, I can imagine spring going to either Domee Shi's next or that project Adrian Molina is now working on, and summer going to INCREDIBLES 3. Meaning an original for summer 2027. KITBULL director Rosana Sullivan's movie, maybe?

I find it ever curious and frustrating that social media blew up over TOY STORY 5 and INCREDIBLES 3, but there was relative crickets on ELIO and HOPPERS... Complaining drives engagement, as does "TOY STORY" and "INCREDIBLES". Household names. ELIO, what's that? HOPPERS? I dunno. So, yeah.

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A New Logo For Pixar's Next Film Elio Has Been Released

D23 Brasil got to see some new footage from Pixar's next film, Elio, but they have released a new logo for the film. It will be released on June 13, 2025.

Pixar is coming off an excellent year with Inside Out 2, but they have another film right around the corner as well. Elio was supposed to be here before Inside Out 2 but was delayed. However, Disney and Pixar must think they have another winner on their hands because they gave the film a prime-time release date of June 2025, when it was supposed to come out in the spring of this year. Attendees at D23 Brasil saw some new footage today, but they didn't release anything online. However, we got a new logo for the movie, which is worse than the first one. It's purely black and white now, which is kind of lame, and the planet detail on the "I" has been replaced with a solar system detail. The Pixar version of every social media or website logo has been getting worse over the years because it has to be simplified to work as an icon on our phones.

New Logo © 2024 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved

Old Logo © 2023 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

COSMIC MISADVENTURE – Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina, and produced by Mary Alice Drumm, the film features the voices of Zoë Saldaña as Aunt Olga, Brad Garrett as Lord Grigon, Jameela Jamil as Ambassador Questa, and Yonas Kibreab as the title character. "Elio" releases in theaters June 13, 2025. © 2024 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

The above teaser trailer is from 2023, but this movie still looks really cute, and considering that Pixar said they are leaning into established IP over original stories, this and Hoppers might be the last original stories we see from the studio for a while. I hope Elio kicks all sorts of box office asses so Disney, Pixar, and everyone writing the checks see the value in original stories.

Elio: Summary, Cast List, Release Date

For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers—in Disney and Pixar's all-new feature film Elio, the universe calls back! The cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. So, when he's beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio's all in for the epic undertaking. Mistakenly identified as Earth's leader, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who and where he is truly meant to be. Directed by Madeline Sharafian (Burrow Sparkshort), Domee Shi (Bao short, Turning Red) and Adrian Molina (co-screenwriter/co-director of Coco), and produced by Mary Alice Drumm (associate producer of Coco), the film features the voices of Zoe Saldaña as Aunt Olga, Brad Garrett as Lord Grigon, Jameela Jamil as Ambassador Questa, and Yonas Kibreab as the title character. Elio releases in theaters on June 13, 2025.

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Omelette from Madeline Sharafian on Vimeo.

Finally my 2nd Calarts film is completed! It feels really great to make a more personal film this year, now that I know the ropes of filmmaking a bit better. I wanted to make something that focuses on how meaningful it is to make food for someone you love. My family's lives practically revolve around cooking for each other, so it's a theme that I'm deeply attached to. I hope you enjoy it!

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Omelette from Madeline Sharafian

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Omelette from Madeline Sharafian

Warning!!! This video does not belong to me!!!

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ohhhh may you please share that recipe 👀

Oh lol I just reblogged it before i saw this ask! Heres a link to the post itself too :D

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OH! I know that one!

It's by maddiesharafian

Have you ever seen a comic about a potions student? The world she's in apparently has very strict rules on brewing potions, proper body coverings and ventilation and such. But she ignores them and brews amazing ones, with the most noticeable side effect of her hair and fingernails growing out of control. I think it ends with her saying something along the lines of "I can stop whenever I want to" while drinking one of her potions.

I remember reading it! But I can’t for love nor money find it, unfortunately.

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tried out different styles!

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Turning Red by Carlos Felipe León Ortiz / Madeline Sharafian