From the start, Lin-Manuel Miranda envisioned his animated pet project, “Vivo” (from Sony Animation, now streaming on Netflix), as a love letter to the musical heritage of Cuba. In fact, he told ...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has licensed all global rights, sans China, to Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo. The movie, directed by Oscar nominee Kirk DeMicco (The Croods) and co-directed by Brandon Jeffords ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda began working on the story and songs for the animated musical Vivo in 2009, but the songs ended up sitting in his trunk for a few years while In the Heights and Hamilton happened.

In 2018, it put out the visually stunning and Academy Award-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” It followed with the reasonably well-received “The Angry Birds Movie 2” in 2019. Its next ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda is lending his voice to an adorable rainforest mammal, called a kinkajou, in Vivo, an animated musical set to hit Netflix this year. The movie, which comes from Sony Animation, was ...

Another winner from Sony Animation and Netflix after their recent hit “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” the computer-generated musical “Vivo” arrives with a gigantic bounce of sound and color provided ...

Vivo is not a monkey, but a kinkajou, which is not a primate but in the same family as raccoons. For the purposes of the Lin-Manuel Miranda-infused animated musical “Vivo,” he’s very monkey-like and ...

A version of this story about “Vivo” first appeared in the special animation section of Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. There is so much vying for your attention these days, ...

Director Kirk DeMicco talks about his first animated musical and working with Miranda to capture the joyful spirit of Havana. From the start, Lin-Manuel Miranda envisioned his animated pet project, ...