Another week, another major film being pushed from theaters to streaming. 2021 is still feeling like 2020 Part II, isn’t’ it? This time, we have Netflix continuing to bolster its lineup with a major animated pickup courtesy of Sony and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

According to Netflix, Sony is sending their animated feature “The Mitchells vs. The Machines” to the streaming service later this year.

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When you watch the first half of the new trailer for “Connected,” you may begin to wonder why the film is actually animated and not just a live-action family comedy about a dad taking his daughter to college. We’ve seen that film a million times, right? Well, it’s when you get to the final half of the trailer when you realize that “Connected” has much bigger things in mind than just a simple family comedy.

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The 2004 film starring fraboy-du-jour Chris Evans centered around a kidnapped woman (Kim Basinger) who makes a call to a random mobile phone seeking help, and has the hilarious tag line of “If the signal dies, so does she.” The movie was critically acclaimed (well, not really) for its unflinching portrait of the rampant kidnappings and cellular phone oriented rescues in today’s urban America.

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