‘The Emoji Movie’: A New Dimension

This story originally appeared in the August-September issue of Animation Magazine. Columbia Pictures releases The Emoji Movie in theaters Friday, July 28.

Emojis are smiling, frowning and grimacing at us from every corner of our plugged-in planet. Once a faddish part of tween texting, they’ve jumped off our phones and into pop culture in a way that says they’ve gone beyond a trend. Why, sometimes people over 25 even send them in their texts now.

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