Apple Matters (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The history of Pixar, thus far, can be divided into two sections: money sucking hobby of Steve Jobs and incredibly successful movie studio. The dividing line between the two parts of Pixar’s history is the movie Toy Story. The brain child of John Lasseter, Toy Story…
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... talk about the evolution of story for Princess and the Frog ... Ron Clements: Disney has actually been interested in the "Frog Prince" all the way back to "Beauty and the Beast." They never got a version they were totally happy with. Weirdly enough, Pixar had been developing versions and they never got quite a version they were happy with. Their version actually started in Chicago...
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Cars Toons is back with an intergalactic bang! Unidentified Flying Mater , part of Mater’s Tall Tales, follows the rusty-but-trusty tow truck as he encounters and quickly befriends a UFO named Mator. Radiator Springs’ go-to-guy rushes to the rescue when his space friend is captured by the military! As usual, Lightning McQueen finds Mater’s story a little hard to believe. Catch the...
TV.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Prep & Landing tells the story of the elite group of elves who must prepare each and every house for Santa's arrival. Sarah voices Magee, the North Pole Christmas Eve Command Center Coordinator who dispatches Wayne ( Dave Foley ) and Lanny ( Derek Richardson ) on their pre-Christmas mission. Prep & Landing is ABC's first special produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, with Pixar guru John...
Animated Views (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Newsarama has a two-part interview with Pete Docter and Bill Peterson, who (not so coincidentally!) are the men behind today’s DVD and BD release of Up. The piece goes into a lot of details about the inspiration, motivation, and construction of the film. “The first pitch to John Lasseter made him cry…with no visuals! Did [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This spring, Wall Street was fretting over the uncertain commercial prospects of Pete Docter's Up . But six months and $646 million after its release, it's Pixar's second-highest grossing film ever and, thanks to the Academy's expansion of the Best Picture category, it stands a good chance at being the studio's first movie to compete for Oscar's top award. On the occasion of Up 's release on Blu-Ray...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A rare bit of bad press for Pixar emerged in September, when the company was sued by Norwegian lamp manufacturer Luxa AS for trademark infringement. Of course, the Pixar brand has used one of those desk lamps in its logo for about 20 years. John Lasseter 's short film that inspired the familiar logo is called Luxo, Jr. So, really, Luxa AS had a claim then and probably should have said something before...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter — the names bandied around for the title of Greatest American Songwriter are a familiar bunch. Less well-known are the handles of the Sherman Brothers. Yet their songs are just as memorable — maybe moreso. As "Toy Story" director John Lasseter says in the documentary "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story," once you hear a...
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A few months back we were all surprised by Luxo AS’s lawsuit over Disney/Pixar’s new uses of it’s iconic mascot, and more importantly, what would come of this court case. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Esq. , both companies came to an "amicable settlement" over the conflict. It almost plays out like a custody case determining who has rights to Jr. The mess all...
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Today as I stumbled into the Walt Disney Animation hat building, employees were streaming out. "They're holding a town hall at the equestrian center in Griffith Park! ..." Which I understood to mean, "John [Lasseter], Ed [Catmull], and Andrew [Millstein] are holding a big employees' meeting down Riverside Drive at the big horse building ..." I went into the studio anyway. A layout...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Intuit completes buyout of Mint.com – CEO Alan Patzer will suck it up and shift from CEO to vice president and general manager of Intuit’s personal finance group, which also includes Quicken products. Yes, Disney’s new film is a hand-drawn musical – “I’ve never understood why the studios were saying people don’t want to see hand-drawn animation. What people...
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Walt Disney Animation is going to be doing more hand-drawn features regardless of how The Princess and the Frog turns out. ...[I]t was two of the biggest names in computer animation—Pixar cofounders John Lasseter and Ed Catmull ... who were behind the decision to return to the hand-drawn technique, and to rehire filmmakers who use it. "We in no way wanted to be thought of as advocates"...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Willem Dafoe, Michael Sheen, John Lasseter, Jane Campion and others have shared their feelings with USA Today's Suzie Woz about this year's ten Best Picture nominations (as opposed to the usual five)....
movies news (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
They are toys, they speak at least when there is nobody around and have returned to celebrate the return of the saga “Toy Story” -this Digital time in Disney 3D! -. Toy Story, the film with which began everything, takes to the spectators to this fantastic adventure again, view from the eyes of two rival toys: Woody (with the voice of Tom hanks in the original version), gawky and loving...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The “Toy Story Part 1 and 2” is indeed a Fantastic animated movie. For most of the people the movie remains close to their hearts as it was a great film. It attracted everyone’s inner child by making them wonder how the secret life of toys would be like. Now, Pixar and Walt Disney have unveiled [...]
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LOS ANGELES – "Toy Story" has always been a 3-D film, even if moviegoers never saw it that way. Computer-generated animation made the 1995 Pixar smash 3-D by design, with virtual cameras moving through a digital space, capturing the mass and dimension of each character and setting. At the time, though, theaters lacked the high-tech projectors required to show it that way, forcing filmmakers to collapse...
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