![]() Movie - Sony Pictures Animation has cut through the cultural clutter with Lord and Miller’s revolutionary style. While Pixar and Disney Animation suffer in box-office slumps - losing out to Dreamworks’ surprise hit Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Illumination Entertainment’s top-grossing The Super Mario Bros. (The duo have succeeded in live-action fare too - see 21 and 22 Jump Street - though they were fired mid-movie from the stand-alone Star Wars prequel Solo.) But it’s their work on the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse that set a new bar for the animation industry, borrowing from vintage comic-books, psychedelia, and street art to create a novel visual language for not just superhero films but computer-animated work generally. ![]() Over the past decade, Phil Lord and Chris Miller - and in Hollywood, they are always referred to as Lord and Miller never Miller and Lord - have distinguished themselves as the critically acclaimed writer-director-producers behind animated crowd-pleasers like their breakthrough Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and the billion-dollar Lego Movie franchise. Four Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse crew members say unsustainable working conditions are behind the success of the animated film. ![]()
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