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Wall-E: Watch clips from Pixar's latest

IndieLondon (Free subscription) | yesterday

Website Wall-E – US box office and reviews Wall-E photo gallery Watch the trailer

Pixar - officially nice guys

GromBlog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

The best marketing is that which you don't pay for or try to get. Pixar know this. At the tail end of last year, the trailer for the new Wall-E movie came out. A girl called Courtney saw it and burst into tears. Since this happened every time she watched it, she decided to film herself crying and posted it on her blog . It's quite funny and touching and she was rightly embarrassed by it. She started...

Pixar Animator Builds LEGO WALL•E

Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pixar animator, Angus MacLane has created a very cool WALL •E LEGO model and has talked to Brothers Brick about it. MacLane started building him back in 2005 when WALL •E was first being built into the computer, but overall it took him about 7 hours to make. MacLane explains that LEGO building is a hobby of his and he uses it as a way to unwind after a day’s work. Check the interview to see more pictures...

Presto - Pixar Short

Thinking Animation Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pixar's Magical Short, Presto

Right Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday

If you got to see WALL-E, then you saw Pixar’s teaser opener: Presto . This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in ages. Take a second to watch it. You won’t regret it....( read more )

Wall•E and Eve: more music inspired by the Pixar blockbuster

Animated News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Keeping up the tradition, Disney is releasing today a companion soundtrack to their latest Pixar blockbuster which can be previewed and purchased at Amazon MP3. While underwhelming at first listening, it remains a must for Wall•E fans!

Pixar’s short film Presto now on iTunes

The Disney Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

If you’ve seen WALL-E then hopefully you’ve also seen the delightfully wacky short that proceeded it–Presto! Well, you’ll be happy to hear that it’s now available to buy on iTunes along with a host of other Pixar and Disney animated shorts. Originally posted on The Disney Blog. Pixar’s short film Presto now on iTunes

Your Dress Would Look Better On Me: Hello, Luxo: My Pixar Adventure

blackrimglasses.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

There has to be some sort of way to figure out why the first trailer to Wall-E with that music and the voice made so many geeks love the movie and character with only about 5 seconds of screen time. Why do lonely robots make me happy? [From Your Dress Would Look [...]

Radical conservatives terrief of Pixar's WALL-E

Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Think Progress � Right-Wing Apoplectic Over Pixar’s WALL-E: ‘Malthusian Fear Mongering,’ ‘Fascistic Elements’ Shannen Coffin: From the first moment of the film, my kids were bombarded with leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind. It’s a shame, too, because the robot had promise. The story was just awful, however. Greg Pollowitz: It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption,...

The human side of Pixar's robot

Signal vs. Noise (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

This story is hilariously, beautifully, far-fetchedly awesome and heart warming. See also the MeFi thread. Pixar proves it’s one of those great companies that is run by unabashedly human people , and it’s no wonder why their work is so personal and touching. When you engage yourself with your customers and your audience on a level that reminds them you are the same, the experience is far greater than...

Pixar and the Goldman Aphorism

Ross Douthat (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Peter Suderman , riffing on the issue of whether critics matter: If movie reviewers are such good predictors of financial success, why hasn’t some studio caught on and put a bunch of them on the payroll? It’s not as if the studios aren’t actively pursuing every conceivable formula and strategy to predict what will and won’t work at the box office. As Malcolm Gladwell reported in The New Yorker a few...

Pixar's tightknit culture is its edge

Signal vs. Noise (Free subscription) | yesterday

More on why Pixar ’s movies are so much better than the competition: According to “Pixar Rules — Secrets of a Blockbuster Company,” the company has created an incredible work environment that keeps employees happy and fulfilled. The result: “A tightknit company of long-term collaborators who stick together, learn from one another, and strive to improve with every production.” At the heart of this...

Pixar provides a happy ending

Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Back in October, a grown-up Pixar fan named Courtney saw the WALL·E trailer and burst into tears. She then recorded her emotional reaction and posted it on her blog. Weirdly enough, the video caught on, and folks at Pixar heard...

Care to Super-Size that? (Some Thoughts on Pixar's Wall*E)

http://olgalovesyuri.blogspot.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Let me start off by saying there are spoilers ahead , so if you don't want to know about them, stop now. (Not that I'm going to give a blow-by-blow, but I do want to talk a bit about what the film says to me). With that out of the way, the Olga 'n Yuri Household had a great time seeing Wall*E this weekend. While it is clearly one of Pixar's best, it's not their best film ever. I think the Toy Story...

Pixar: To Infinity and Beyond

Mickey News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

One thing I've learned as you get older is it's nice to feel like a kid again.