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Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | yesterday
With a worldwide hit , a reissued classic and the hottest DVD /Blu-ray out there, the Lamp will be inspiring audiences and making a few bucks here and there. Let’s check back on Pixar’s financial performance lately. Half A Billion Worth in Balloons: Up keeps making the big bucks as it prepares to open in its last territory, Japan on December 5th. So far, Up has garnered an impressive $668...
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Film Intuition: Review Database (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
New On Blu-ray (DVD Already Available) View Video Clips from the Release Children's songs warned that we should “never smile at a crocodile,” and reassured those of us terrified of the tub that we'd “never go down the drain.” But one of the other popular pieces of advice dished out to us growing up that didn't come from those vinyl keepsakes called records was that-- when it...
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Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Up’s brave ‘ For Your Consideration ‘ campaign has got people asking, what does it take to go up? I mean, up the awards ranks, especially in a year where the odds are all for Pixar’s 10th film. The Hollywood Reporter took that question and showed us a whole new side of Pete Docter’s production in the magazine’s latest Anatomy of a Contender piece. The little known...
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Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
One of the many things that sets Pixar apart from other animation studios (less so Disney these days, you might imagine) is their dedication to nurture and cultivation. This applies both to the talent, the animators and directors, but also to their projects. As such, many of their films begin with a pitch that's rather different than the film we finally end up with in cinemas. On the recent publicity...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Kudos to Cinematical reader Kashif Pasta for sending this our way. On the latest episode of the Creative Screenwriting Magazine Podcast (which I didn't know existed, but now do and will totally listen more often), Up and Monster's, Inc director Pete Docter revealed the original pitch for Monsters, Inc. -- which was very different from what eventually hit the screen, and kinda reminded me of Where...
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
If you take hilarity and amusement and add sincerity and warmth, what do you get? The answer is "Up"! directed by Pete Docter and co-directed & screen-written by Bob Peterson of Disney Pixar, "Up" is an amazingly entertaining and heartfelt animated adventure that the entire family will surely enjoy.
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
If you would like to know more about the "Up" movie, the inspirations behind its characters, or just have an interest in animation, then take a look at what Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, the creators of "Up," had to say about their experience with creating the #1 Animated Film of the Year.
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
As 2009 begins to come to a close and critics and pundits consider the movies that will ultimately make their Top Tens and Best Of lists, Up seems like a shoe-in for all of them. Effortlessly charming, deeply affecting and genuinely rousing, Pete Docter 's follow-up to Monsters, Inc. is nothing short of spectacular. I'm especially reminded of this now that the film has arrived on Blu-ray, in no less...
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WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The creative team behind Pixar’s “Up” traveled to South America to research some of the critical sequences in the movie. But inspiration also came from some less extravagant expeditions. The team formed a Tin Pan Alley-type band and visited a few retirement homes. “As we played, we were secretly taking mental notes and doing sketches behind our ukuleles,“ [...] Related...
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The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Director Pete Docter hopes his hit comedy Up will become the first animated film since 1991’s Beauty and the Beast to vie for a Best Picture Oscar, now that the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has expanded the annual list of nominees to 10. Up, about an old man and a boy who float off to [...]
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Academy's decision to up the number of Best Picture nominees from five to ten has already been well documented and discussed, but according to Variety , it looks as if the Best Animated Feature category will be movin' on up as well. As per the rules, if there are 8 to 15 eligible animated features released in a year, the category will appear in the ceremony, with three nominees. However, if 16...
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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Earlier today in honor of the Blu-ray and DVD release of Pixar’s Up, I published a special edition of This Week in Blu-ray as well as a very cool article entitled 10 Fun Facts About Pixar’s Up. And now I’m back with more fun stuff to celebrate this major release, including additional facts about the [...]
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Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Back in April, I sat down with Pete Docter , the director of Up , and asked him about the rumored sequel to Monsters, Inc. He was not very forthcoming then. "Basically, the way we approach all the films at Pixar is if we feel like we come upon a story worth telling, we'll do it. If we don't, we won't. So, we're still looking." With Up on DVD and Blu-ray today, Docter was brought into the...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When an expanded list of 10 movies competes next year for the best picture Oscar, director Pete Docter hopes his "Up" will become the first animated film since 1991's "Beauty and the Beast" to vie for Hollywood's most coveted honour.
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Pete Docter reportedly decides against making the Monsters, Inc. sequel for Pixar.
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