For whatever reason, my kids didn’t want to see Cars and we even missed it on cable and home video. When word spread that it was good but not Pixar’s best feature, there wasn’t a lot of desire among the family to check it out. The same feeling arrived this June when the inevitable sequel,…
Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., former owner and CEO of Pixar, and the single largest shareholder of The Walt Disney Company (now owner of Marvel), passed away Wednesday at the age of 56. It would be almost impossible to overstate Steve Jobs’ impact on the world at large,…
From late 1977 through spring 1978, John Lasseter, before becoming chief creative officer at Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and principal creative advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering, worked at Disneyland, and was a skipper on the Jungle Cruise attraction. Recently, a search for a photo of John skippering the Jungle Cruise came up empty….
For those of you who missed out on Disney’s fan fest, D23, the studio provided us with a recap which we will run intact below. But we know what you really care about is what was said and shown about next year’s The Avengers. Well, there were some clips, another blindingly fast set of clips….
Can you find him? See if you can also find: Eva Moe Two Paranoid Andriods Two Cybermen Two Cylons Tom and Jerry surrogates And for bonus points, name five that are missing from this picture.
Time to adjust your movie calendars as Warner Bros admitted today that having Zack Snyder’s Superman: Man of Steel film for Christmas 2012 was impossible. The new date is now June 14, nestled between two Marvel sequels. Given the effects-heavy movie’s post-production requirements and the fact is has yet to start shooting, it seems likely…
While everyone is charging their power ring for this weekend’s premiere of Green Lantern, Pixar is revving up the anticipation engine for the following weekend’s release of Cars 2. They’ve just sent us two video clips to whet your appetites. The movie from directors John Lasseter and Brad Lewis features the vocal talents of Owen…
Pixar has announced details about the short, “La Luna” that will run prior to Cars 2 later this month. The story’s synopsis, according to a studio release: La Luna is the timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his…
Cars 2, revving up for release later this month, has sent us this cool new featurette: Here are the rest of the film’s details: U.S. Release Date: June 24, 2011 Voice Talent: Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Jason Isaacs, Joe Mantegna, Peter Jacobson, Thomas…
[[[Toy Story 3]]] is a textbook example of how to conclude a trilogy, a lesson that needs to be learned by movie studios. It also illustrates how a family film can work on multiple levels, touching all who watch it. This Pixar film is a farewell to childhood, one that parents watch wistfully and one…
Marv Wolfman writes: A few weeks back on Twitter, referring to Toy Story 3, writer Gail Simone made a funny comment on Bullseye, the horse, and in her deadpan Twitter-humor style referenced Daredevil’s Bullseye. In turn, I wrote back saying whoever created that Bullseye had to be a genius. Needless to say, I created him….
What is it with people mapping Pixar movies onto Christopher Nolan directed efforts? First it was The Dark Knight mapped onto Toy Story back in March, and now we have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHJwgA54Gqk Any day now, we’re going to get a mash-up of The Prestige and Presto…
