It’s official— “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has done what no other pandemic-era film has done so far, earning more than $1 billion worldwide. And the film did it in only 12 days. So, the box office is fully recovered, the pandemic is over, and we can go back to those coveted 2019 numbers, right? Well, not so much. 

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The race to earn an Animated Feature Oscar nomination is traditionally competitive, but 2021 will likely see at least two critically acclaimed films on the outside looking in. Things got more interesting this morning when the 49th Annie Awards announced their nominees and “Raya and the Last Dragon“ led all contenders with 10 nominations. The Walt Disney Animation studio production topped “Encanto,” which earned nine nominations.

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Other Best Feature nominees included “Luca” and “The Mitchells vs.

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People love singing. People love animals. Why not combine the two in a film about singing animals? That’s exactly what happened in the hit feature, “Sing.” And guess what? It was such a success, it spawned a sequel, appropriately titled, “Sing 2.”

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As seen in the new trailer for “Sing 2,” your favorite crooning animals are back with a new adventure.

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“Sing,” Illumination Entertainment’s 2016 animated feature, is a breath of fresh air, particularly for a company most closely associated with the screeching, omnipresent minions. A kind of jukebox musical set in a world populated by oddball anthropomorphic animals (released just a few months after “Zootopia”), it is charming and upbeat. The kind of movie you can tap your toe to. (It was also hugely successful, making nearly $650 million worldwide.) A sequel was inevitable.

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In 2016, Gareth Jennings introduced audiences to koala Buster Moon and the rest of Calatonia’s animals in “Sing.” In that film, Buster puts on a singing competition for the ages to save his struggling venue and inspire some musical dreams in the process.  

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Now, in “Sing 2,” the stakes are that much higher, as Buster and his friends take to Redshore City for a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater.

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Trust us when we say we hope there’s a day when the words pandemic and COVID-19 are never written on the pages of this website again, specifically in any intros to any features. However, the reality is that the collective disruption of 2020 was difficult, and it made 2021’s release schedule something of a log-jammed shitshow. That Delta variant could play havoc with things too, but we’re all starting to learn to live with a world that’s in flux. 

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All that said, the delays of 2021 have had their pluses.

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Six years ago, writer/director Garth Jennings introduced audiences to Calatonia and the human-like animals that live there in his animated film “Sing.” In that film, koala Buster Moon puts on a singing competition to save his once-renowned Moon theater from going under and rouses the musical dreams of others in the process. Now, Buster, Rosita, Mike, Ash, Johnny, and Gunter are back in “Sing 2,” set to hit theaters this holiday season.

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