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===Box office===
===Box office===
In the United States and Canada, ''Moana'' is being released during the lucrative [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]] weekend. The film will be playing in more than 3,800 theaters of which a majority of them – 80% – will screen in 3D. It is projected to take in around $50 million in three days, and $75–80 million in five days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thewrap.com/moana-fantastic-beasts-bad-santa-allied-box-office/|title=‘Moana’ to Ride Big Box Office Wave With $75 Million-Plus|author=Meriah Doty|work=[[The Wrap]]|date=November 21, 2016|accessdate=November 22, 2016}}</ref> ''[[Deadline.com]]'' said the numbers were good for the original Disney film and marks a great rebound for the company in the wake of last year's [[Pixar]] ''[[The Good Dinosaur]]'', which made $55.4 million over five days (and totalled $123 million) off a production budget of $175–200 million. The biggest threat challenging ''Moana''{{'}}s opening is [[Warner Bros.]]' spin-off ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)|Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'' which is also expected to make around the same amount in its sophomore weekend.<ref name="DEADprev">{{cite web|url=http://deadline.com/2016/11/moana-fantastic-beasts-bad-santa-2-allied-thanksgiving-box-office-1201858515/|title=Will ‘Moana’ Slay ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Over The Thanksgiving Stretch?|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|work=''[[Deadline.com]]''|date=November 21, 2016|accessdate=November 22, 2016}}</ref>
In the United States and Canada, ''Moana'' is being released during the lucrative [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]] weekend. The film will be playing in more than 3,800 theaters of which a majority of them – 80% – will screen in 3D. It is projected to take in around $50 million in three days, and $75–80 million in five days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thewrap.com/moana-fantastic-beasts-bad-santa-allied-box-office/|title=‘Moana’ to Ride Big Box Office Wave With $75 Million-Plus|author=Meriah Doty|work=[[The Wrap]]|date=November 21, 2016|accessdate=November 22, 2016}}</ref> ''[[Deadline.com]]'' said the numbers were good for the original Disney film and marks a great rebound for the company in the wake of last year's [[Pixar]] ''[[The Good Dinosaur]]'', which made $55.4 million over five days (and totalled $123 million) off a production budget of $175–200 million. The biggest threat challenging ''Moana''{{'}}s opening is [[Warner Bros.]]' spin-off ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)|Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'' which is also expected to make around the same amount in its sophomore weekend.<ref name="DEADprev">{{cite web|url=http://deadline.com/2016/11/moana-fantastic-beasts-bad-santa-2-allied-thanksgiving-box-office-1201858515/|title=Will ‘Moana’ Slay ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Over The Thanksgiving Stretch?|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|work=''[[Deadline.com]]''|date=November 21, 2016|accessdate=November 22, 2016}}</ref> The film's overwhelming responses and overall critical acclaim will manifest in its box office performance but given its PG-13 rating, it will attract a slightly older crowd.<ref name="VVVprev">{{cite web|url=http://variety.com/2016/film/news/thanksgiving-box-office-2016-moana-bad-santa-allied-1201923700/|title=Thanksgiving Box Office: Disney’s ‘Moana’ to Feast on Brad Pitt’s ‘Allied,’ ‘Bad Santa 2’|author=Brent Lang|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 21, 2016|accessdate=November 22, 2016}}</ref>


===Critical response===
===Critical response===

Revision as of 02:43, 22 November 2016

Moana
Theatrical release poster
Screenplay byJared Bushy Bush[2]
Story by
Produced byOsnat Shurer
Starring
Edited byJeff Draheim
Music by
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • November 14, 2016 (2016-11-14) (AFI Fest)[1]
  • November 23, 2016 (2016-11-23) (United States)
Running time
103 minutes[6]
LandVereinigte Staaten
SpracheEnglisch

Moana is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 56th Disney animated feature film. It is directed by Ron Clements and John Musker,[7] and co-directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams.[8][9] The film introduces Auli'i Cravalho as Moana and features Dwayne Johnson as Maui. The film features music written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa'i, and Mark Mancina.[10] It is scheduled to be theatrically released on November 23, 2016.[11]

Synopsis

On a mystic island in Polynesia, the 16-year-old strong-willed daughter of the chief of the tribe, Moana from Motunui Island, is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite the Heart of Te Fiti. She sets sail in search of Maui, a legendary demigod and hopes to save her people.

Voice cast

  • Auli'i Cravalho as Moana Waialiki, the high-spirited sixteen-year-old daughter of a chief in a long line of navigators, who sets sail to an island with an almighty demigod to help save her family from annihilation. As her name means "ocean," she has an uncanny connection with it and all its creatures.
    • Louise Bush as the singing voice of pre-teen Moana[12]
  • Dwayne Johnson as Maui, the legendary demigod who sets off with Moana on her journey.
  • Rachel House as Gramma Tala, Moana's Grandmother. Like Moana, Tala shares a passion for the ocean.[13]
  • Temuera Morrison as Chief Tui Waialiki, Moana's overprotective father and chief of Motunui Island.[13]
  • Nicole Scherzinger as Sina Waialiki, Moana's mother.[13]
  • Jemaine Clement as Tamatoa, a villainous 50-foot crab from Lalotai, the realm of monsters.[13]
  • Alan Tudyk as Hei Hei, Maui and Moana's pet rooster, and described by director Ron Clements as "the dumbest character in the history of Disney animation."[15] Tudyk also voices Villager #3.[16]
  • Oscar Kightley as Fisherman
  • Troy Polamalu as Villager #1
  • Puanani Cravalho as Villager #2

Production

John Musker
Ron Clements
Directors John Musker and Ron Clements presented footage from the film at the 2016 Annecy International Animated Film Festival

After directing The Princess and the Frog (2009), Clements and Musker started working on an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Mort,[17] but problems acquiring the film rights to that property prevented them from continuing with the project. To avoid similar problems, they pitched three new ideas, and in 2011 started developing the film based on an original idea.[18] In 2012, Clements and Musker went on research trips to Fiji, Samoa, and Tahiti to meet the people of the South Pacific and learn about their culture.[7] Over the five years it took to develop and produce the film, Clements and Musker recruited experts from across the South Pacific to form an Oceanic Story Trust, who consulted on the film's cultural accuracy and sensitivity as its story evolved through nine different versions.[19]

Moana will be Clements and Musker's first fully computer-animated film.[7][20] One of the reasons for using computer animation was that the environment, including the ocean, benefited much more from the use of CGI as opposed to a traditional animation.[21] The filmmakers have also suggested that three-dimensional computer animation is well-suited to the "beautiful sculpturing" of the faces of the people of the South Pacific.[22] Maui's tattoos will be hand-drawn.[23]

Taika Waititi wrote the initial screenplay for the film.[24] Subsequent versions of the film's story were contributed by Clements, Musker, Chris Williams, Don Hall, Pamela Ribon, Aaron Kandell, and Jordan Kandell. Jared Bush received sole credit as the writer of the final version of the screenplay. Eric Goldberg worked on the animation.[25][26] The film will feature music by Opetaia Foa'i, Mark Mancina, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.[27]

After the filmmakers sat through auditions of hundreds of candidates from across the Pacific,[7] 14-year-old high school freshman Auli'i Cravalho was cast as the lead character Moana, a young girl who sets sail with Maui.[28][29] At that point in time, the design of Moana's face and personality was already complete, and Cravalho's obvious physical resemblance to her character was simply a coincidence.[30] During animation production, Disney animators were able to integrate some of Cravalho's mannerisms into Moana's behavior as depicted onscreen.[30] Like most animated films, the lead actors read their lines with the directors in recording sessions entirely separate from one another; Cravalho and Johnson did not meet for the first time in person until much later after production was complete.[30]

Music

Untitled

The film's soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on November 18, 2016. The songs are written by Opetaia Foa’i, Mark Mancina, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, while the score is written by Mancina.[31]

Track listing

All music is composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa'i and Mark Mancina (Tracks 1-14), Mark Mancina (Tracks 15-40)

Disc One
No.TitelPerformer(s)Length
1."Tulou Tagaloa"Olivia Foa'i0:51
2."An Innocent Warrior"Vai Mahina, Sulata Foai-Amiatu & Matthew Imeleo1:37
3."Where You Are"Christopher Jackson, Rachel House, Nicole Scherzinger, Auli'i Cravalho & Louise Bush3:30
4."How Far I'll Go"Cravalho2:43
5."We Know the Way"Opetaia Foa'i & Lin-Manuel Miranda2:21
6."How Far I'll Go (Reprise)"Cravalho1:27
7."You're Welcome"Dwayne Johnson2:43
8."Shiny"Jemaine Clement3:05
9."Logo Te Pate"O. Foa'i, Op. Foa'i & Talaga Steve Sale2:10
10."I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors)"House & Cravalho2:42
11."Know Who You Are"Cravalho, Mahina, O. Foa'i, Op. Foa'i & Imeleo1:12
12."We Know the Way (Finale)"Miranda & Op. Foa'i1:09
13."How Far I'll Go (Alessia Cara Version)"Alessia Cara2:55
14."You're Welcome (feat. Lin-Manuel Miranda)"Jordan Fisher2:17
15."Prologue"Mark Mancina2:25
16."He Was You"Mancina0:50
17."Village Crazy Lady"Mancina0:45
18."Cavern"Mancina2:05
19."The Ocean Chose You"Mancina1:17
20."The Hook"Mancina1:09
21."Tala's Deathbed"Mancina2:00
22."Battle of Wills"Mancina3:10
23."Kakamora"Mancina4:33
24."Wayfinding"Mancina1:52
25."Climbing"Mancina0:54
26."Tamatoa's Lair"Mancina2:45
27."Great Escape"Mancina0:59
28."If I Were the Ocean"Mancina3:01
29."Te Ka Attacks"Mancina1:41
30."Maui Leaves"Mancina2:05
31."Heartache"Mancina0:39
32."Tala Returns"Mancina1:01
33."Sails to Te Fiti"Mancina5:46
34."Shiny Heart"Mancina0:36
35."Te Fiti Restored"Mancina1:03
36."Hand of a God"Mancina0:30
37."Voyager Tagaloa"Mancina0:57
38."Toe Feiloa'i"Mancina1:25
39."Navigating Home"Mancina0:47
40."The Return to Voyaging"Mancina1:01

All music is composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa'i and Mark Mancina (Tracks 1-7, 18-19), Mark Mancina (Tracks 8-17)

Disc Two
No.TitelPerformer(s)Length
1."Unstoppable (Outtake)"Lin-Manuel Miranda3:59
2."More (Outtake)"Marcy Harriell3:16
3."More (Reprise - Outtake)"Harriell2:38
4."Warrior Face (Outtake)"Miranda2:16
5."Where You Are (Demo)"Miranda3:01
6."You're Welcome (Demo)"Miranda2:37
7."Shiny (Demo)"Miranda3:04
8."Prologue (Score Demo)"Mark Mancina2:26
9."Village Crazy Lady (Score Demo)"Mancina0:45
10."Cavern (Score Demo)"Mancina2:05
11."Kakamora (Score Demo)"Mancina3:58
12."It's Called Wayfinding (Score Demo)"Mancina0:53
13."Maui Leaves (Score Demo)"Mancina2:04
14."Sails to Te Fiti (Score Demo)"Mancina1:37
15."Maui Battles (Score Demo)"Mancina1:57
16."Sea Monsters (Score Demo)"Mancina0:45
17."Tala Returns (Score Demo)"Mancina1:15
18."How Far I'll Go (Instrumental)"Moana Karaoke2:44
19."You're Welcome (Instrumental)"Moana Karaoke2:44

Release

On October 20, 2014, Disney announced that it would be releasing the film in late 2016,[32] and hinted that it might be the November 23, 2016 release window previously announced by the studio in March 2014 for a then-untitled film.[33] In November 2014, Disney confirmed that it would be releasing the film on November 23, 2016.[34] The film will be accompanied by the new short film Inner Workings.[35] The film held its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 14, 2016.[36]

The picture will be titled Vaiana in many countries following a trademark conflict.[37] The picture will be titled Oceania in Italy, while the name of the protagonist will be Vaiana in lieu of Moana, presumably to avoid confusion with an Italian porn star of the same name, Moana Pozzi.[38]

The film has been criticized for perpetuating stereotypes of Polynesians by depicting Maui as overweight.[39] In addition, a costume made to tie in with the film was pulled by Disney from its online store following complaints about it being culturally insensitive.[40]

On October 25, 2016, at a press conference in Pape’ete, it was announced that the movie, along with many other languages, will also be translated into the Tahitian language, marking the first ever motion picture to do so.[41] This marks the third time Disney releases a special dubbing dedicated to the culture to which the movie is inspired: the first case was The Lion King, for which the directors travelled to South Africa to cast voice actors for a Zulu-dubbed version;[42] the second case was Mulan, which was the first Disney movie to have a Mandarin Chinese dubbing made in China, independent from the versions systematically released in Taiwan.[43]

Disney India chose popular Indian music composer Bappi Lahiri to voice the character of Tamatoa in the Hindi-dubbed version of the film releasing in India.[44]

Box office

In the United States and Canada, Moana is being released during the lucrative Thanksgiving weekend. The film will be playing in more than 3,800 theaters of which a majority of them – 80% – will screen in 3D. It is projected to take in around $50 million in three days, and $75–80 million in five days.[45] Deadline.com said the numbers were good for the original Disney film and marks a great rebound for the company in the wake of last year's Pixar The Good Dinosaur, which made $55.4 million over five days (and totalled $123 million) off a production budget of $175–200 million. The biggest threat challenging Moana's opening is Warner Bros.' spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which is also expected to make around the same amount in its sophomore weekend.[46] The film's overwhelming responses and overall critical acclaim will manifest in its box office performance but given its PG-13 rating, it will attract a slightly older crowd.[47]

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 100%, based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10.[48] On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 81 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "universal acclaim."[49]

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