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Business Insider reports that Disney just dropped the first trailer for their upcoming animated feature Moana.

We're finally getting to see the adventures of perhaps the most unconventional Disney princess yet, along with her demigod buddy Maui, hitting theaters later this year.

What's interesting is that while they've cast some relatively unknown talent like Aula ’ Cravalho as the lead, they've also brought in heavy hitters like Dwayne Johnson and Phillipa Soo.

And if you want to know why Lin-Manuel Miranda—the mastermind behind the massive Broadway hit Hamilton that swept up every major Tony award--is involved, it's because he's handling the music. That alone gives this a shot at being the next big Disney smash...

"Anthropoid" is an adaptation of a true story—specifically, an incredibly top-secret military operation carried out on American soil during World War II... though actually, it took place in Czechoslovakia. The whole point of Operation Anthropoid was to take out the SS general and the protector of the Czech Republic and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich. Basically, they were trying to assassinate the third most powerful man in the Nazi hierarchy. Back in 1942, two soldiers in exile, Josef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, were tasked with parachuting into the territory to pull it off. And they did... the infamous Reinhard Heydrich eventually died from the wounds he sustained during the attack.

The director, Sean Ellis, actually got the spark to make this movie about such a classified mission after watching a documentary over a decade ago. He’s spent the last ten years digging through every bit of research available and meticulously planning the production. Ellis even worked on the screenplay with help from Anthony Frewin.

They shot the film at various locations throughout Prague to mirror where everything actually went down back in 1942.

Featuring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan as the lead soldiers, the cast also includes Anna Geislerová (bazen smrt) and Charlotte Le Bon (Yves Saint Laurent).

The film is set to premiere at the Karlovy Vary July 1st film festival, followed by a US release starting August 12th.

It’s an incredible, stunningly powerful love story based on the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. We see Alicia Vikander (as Gerda) and the Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (as Lili) in this biographical drama... Eddie really brings it home. Their marriage and careers shift constantly as they navigate Lili’s journey as the first person in the world to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Those procedures caused a massive media frenzy back then, dividing public opinion completely. The film is directed by Tom Hooper, the Oscar winner who took home the Golden Globe in 2011 for his work on The King's Speech. The screenplay is adapted from the bestselling novel by David Ebershoff, with a script by Lucinda Conox.