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Disney has announced that the highly anticipated animated film Raya and the Last Dragon will be released on the streaming service Disney+ on the same day it hits theaters.

The upcoming movie will become a Disney+ Premiere Access title, which means subscribers will have to pay an additional fee to watch the movie while it’s still in theaters. The streamer did this with Mulan earlier this year.

Raya and the Last Dragon will be released in theaters on March 12, 2021 and it will be available for streaming that day as well.

Disney+ charged an extra $29.99 for unlimited views of Mulan, though it’s unclear what the pricing structure will be for Raya. If you didn’t want to pay the extra money to watch the live-action version of Mulan, we have some good news for you.

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Raya and the Last Dragon is coming!

The highly anticipated movie from Walt Disney Animation Studios, featuring Kelly Marie Tran as the voice of Raya, is set to open in U.S. theaters on March 12, 2021.

Here’s a plot summary: “Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people. However, along her journey, she’ll learn that it’ll take more than a dragon to save the world—it’s going to take trust and teamwork as well.”

The film is helmed by directors Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, co-directors Paul Briggs and John Ripa, producers Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho, and features Awkwafina as the last dragon Sisu.

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Kelly Marie Tran is taking on an exciting new role. – and a historic one, at that!

The 31-year-old Star Wars actress was announced as the voice of Raya, joining Awkwafina as the voice of Sisu in Raya & The Last Dragon, Disney revealed Thursday (August 27).

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With her casting, Kelly Marie Tran is making history as the first actress of Southeast Asian descent to lead a Disney animated movie, and the movie itself is the first feature from Walt Disney Animation to be inspired by Southeast Asia.

The studio also reveled the first-look image from the film, which you can check out inside!

Here’s a plot summary: “In a realm known as Lumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.”

Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada are directing, with Paul Briggs and John Ripa co-directing. Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim are writers on the project.

Kelly Marie Tran will also be starring in this Hulu series!

Raya and the Last Dragon opens in U.S. theaters on March 12, 2021.

Kelly Marie Tran is set to star in Hulu’s upcoming Monsterland anthology series.

Based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud, The Hollywood Reporter states that the Star Wars actress will join Kaitlyn Dever, Taylor Schilling and Mike Colter in the show.

The series is set in a world that involves encounters with fantasy creatures like mermaids and fallen angels, and follows broken people driven to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives.

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Kelly will play Lauren in an episode titled “Iron River, MI”.

Lauren returns to her small Michigan hometown to be married, after she had managed to build a new life for herself after her best friend, Elena, went missing when they were 16.

If you didn’t see, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, is currently streaming on Disney+!

Kelly Marie Tran turns heads in her ball gown while arriving at the 2020 Academy Awards on Sunday (February 9) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The 31-year-old Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker actress is set to take the stage later tonight as a presenter at the annual award show.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is actually up for three awards tonight – Best Visual Effects, Best Original Score and Best Sound Editing.

For the second year in a row, the Oscars will be presented without a host. Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations and Grammy winner Billie Eilish is set to give a special performance. Tune in for the show at 8pm ET/5pm PT on ABC.

FYI: Kelly wore a Schiaparelli gown with Graziela jewels.

Timothee Chalamet will join Gal Gadot, Mark Ruffalo and Lin-Manuel Miranda as a presenter at the upcoming 2020 Oscars next month.

The four stars join a handful of other stars who are set to present on stage during the big awards night.

Zazie Beetz, Will Ferrell, Mindy Kaling, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anthony Ramos, Kelly Marie Tran and Kristen Wiig will also be presenting at the ceremony, Deadline reports.

The Academy just recently revealed that the Big 4 winners from last year – Rami Malek, Olivia Colman, Mahershala Ali, and Regina King would also return to present at the event.

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Kelly Marie Tran‘s screentime in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a mere 76 seconds out of the movie’s 2 hours and 35 minutes- and now a writer is speaking out about why.

Chris Terrio, who co-wrote the film, opened up about the character of Rose Tico’s reduced role in the film.

“One of the reasons that Rose has a few less scenes than we would like her to have has to do with the difficulty of using Carrie Fisher’s footage in the way we wanted to,” Chris shared with Awards Daily.

“We wanted Rose to be the anchor at the rebel base who was with Leia. We thought we couldn’t leave Leia at the base without any of the principals who we love, so Leia and Rose were working together … As the process evolved, a few scenes we’d written with Rose and Leia turned out to not meet the standard of photorealism that we’d hoped for. Those scenes, unfortunately, fell out of the film.”

He went on to explain the situation: “The last thing we were doing was deliberately trying to sideline Rose. We adore the character, and we adore Kelly — so much so that we anchored her with our favorite person in this galaxy, General Leia.”

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