Year: 2009 Running Time: 96 Minutes Rated: PG SRP: $45.99 Studio(s): Disney Pixar Release Date: November 10, 2009 Feature/Film: A Instead of sequels like Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, I’ve preferred the more recent Pixar projects like Ratatouille and Wall-E for their “big picture” concepts and experimental narrative devices. Their latest release, Up has all of those things, and something...
As part of ABC Family’s annual 25 Days Of Christmas programming, the network is set to host Walt Disney Pictures Presents Pixar Short Films, a collection of 20 of the company’s computer animated cartoons airing together as a two-hour event for the first time on television. A press release and information on all films in [...]
I decided to do my own personal breakdown of the development and evolution of the CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) film genre. I decided to focus on some films that I feel are landmarks in the progression of these films while excluding most of the CGI mainstream films aimed at younger audiences (Toy Story, Shrek, Monsters [...] Related posts: Dart Adams presents A Guide To Essential Anime (The Movie...
Details about Pixar’s upcoming studio have been on the down low since its surprise announcement back in May. Dubbed Pixar Canada (logo to the right), the new production facility will release short films based on Pixar’s "legacy franchises" like Toy Story and Cars. The Vancouver, BC satellite, headed by Ratatouille supervising animator Dylan Brown, has just started hiring and will...
Next year's Oscars might as well start working on an "Up" theme -- along with Pixar's wonderful elder adventure, Jason Reitman's UP IN THE AIR is getting buzz for being one of the year's best films. And while it's still a few weeks before you can find out for yourself, until then you can get some tiny out-of-context samples of Clooney and his apparently bottomless charm. Check out a couple...
The World Premiere of James Cameron's Avatar is set for December 10th, just 20 days from now but as of Wednesday, "around 30 minutes of the movie remain incomplete". Cause for concern? According to Jon Landau, the film's producer, the scenes need work ranging from sound mixing through colour timing along to visual effects. What isn't clear is how many minutes of FX work need to be locked,...
I was at a gathering of HR managers and executives yesterday held at Pixar, and one of the participants made this observation at one point. Frankly, there were a lot of people and we kept rotating among groups, so although...
Is it just me or do the weird, little Mormon books by Stephanie Meyer not exactly qualify as a "saga"? And why does no one discuss the awful examples of social behavior (e.g. how awesome it is to date violent, distant men) that the books promote? Nevertheless, here comes Twilight Saga: New Moon . It will make close to a hundred million dollars this weekend, and in a few years people will...
Disney/Pixar's latest triumph isn't quite the all-out masterpiece it has been hailed as, its soggy central act lifted by an outstanding opening and exciting climax, but it looks and sounds beautiful and is serviced well enough on its Blu-ray debut.
There's more to Thanksgiving week than Black Friday sales and a Thursday-afternoon football game: It also marks the traditional beginning of the holiday movie season. Here are the top five five-day Thanksgiving weekend openings, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. 1. Toy Story 2 — The sequel to Pixar's first hit was a big winner with audiences, taking in $80 million in its first five days in 1999....
Pigeon: Impossible [ Via TBT ] “A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.” This is Pixar-quality stuff!
Interview by Simo Capecchi uSk Naples (Italy) correspondent [ blog ] Right now, people around the world are dusting off sketchbooks, sharpening pencils and packing watercolors. Saturday is the 25th World Wide SketchCrawl , a day to indulge in non-stop drawing, recording every moment with pen and paper and opening our sketchbooks for others to see. To mark the occasion, we talked to Enrico Casarosa,...
Pixar's fourth film makes it to Blu-ray in an absolutely stunning hi-def experience, but despite an abundance of discs (a second BD, DVD and Digital Copy), there's little new here and even some missing ingredients.
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