Flow Revisit: How A Silent Black Cat Beat Disney, DreamWorks, and Aardman
Copyright © Dream Well Studio, Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five, Arte France Cinéma, Canal+, Janus Films, Sideshow II Title : Flow Alternative Titles : Straume (original Latvian) Director : Gints Zilbalodis Release Date : August 29, 2024 (Latvia), October 30, 2024 (France), November 22, 2024 (United States), January 15, 2025 (Belgium) The 97th Oscars was yet another crazy ceremony. For the Best Animated Picture, most of us were predicting Inside Out 2 , The Wild Robot , or Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl . However, the winner for that award was Flow , the independent animated cat movie from Latvia. This movie cost a £3.5 million budget (approx. $4.60 million), got animated on a laptop, and had no voices, yet it managed to make a wave with £50 million (approx. 65.67 million) in theaters worldwide. What is more astonishing about this movie is its severe critical success. Critics and audiences praised it for its lack of dialogue, messages, ...