Pixar movies are the kind of family movie you can enjoy without the family. There’s something there for the adults and the themes tend to be universal ones. Pixar’s creators understand how to think and laugh like a kid and tailor their movies for the broadest possible audience without feeling the need to dumb down…
Disney and Pixar have added a short subject spotlighting Burn-E, the one robot not charmed by Wall-E in the summer blockbuster film. The short will be included on the DVD of Wall-E coming to stores on Tuesday in a single disc, three-disc collector’s edition, and Blu-ray.
In ancticipation of Tuesday’s release of Wall-E on DVD, Disney Home VIdeo has provided us with an interview with Ben Burtt, the legendary sound effects maestro. QUESTION: You had just finished a stint on Star Wars when you were offered Wall-E and I imagine the last thing you wanted to work on was robots? BEN…
The Hollywood Reporter named Pixar’s John Lasseter its Innovator of the Year. The trade paper noted that the animator has smoothly inherited the mantle from Disney’s Nine Old Men, the animators who created the classic films. The last of them, Ollie Johnston, passed away recently. “Heart. Inventiveness. Inspiration. These are Lasseter’s own hallmarks,” the paper…
With a lot of attention focused on Pixar’s attempts to adapt John Carter of Mars to film, the small publisher Paizo has been exploring a different take on the Red Planet. They announced a release of Otis Adelbert Kline’s The Swordsman of Mars. The 1933 tale was first serialized in Argosy Magazine, which also ran…
Disney announced at their major presentation on Wednesday that they have accelerated the production of Cars 2 and have rescheduled its launch to 2011. John Lasseter told the rapt audienced that the idea for the story developed as he did worldwide publicity for the first film. The international settings got him to wondering how the Cars…
Even though the newest Pixar feature has been in wide release since the spring, we just got around to seeing it together. Here’s what we thought. The film is about a deserted Earth, abandoned by humans when it got too polluted. Robots were left to clean it up, and only one is still working, the…
Pixar’s still coming off the massive (critical at least) success of WALL-E, and already they’re putting out a first look at their next film, titled Up. The preview is below. Original Video– More videos at TinyPic
Boom! Studios has announced they’ll be publishing comic book adaptations of Pixar cartoon properties, with the first announced being an Incredibles project. The news comes as an early announcement from Comic-Con International, which is just getting underway. Boom EiC Mark Waid will be writing the Incredibles series, featuring covert art from Darwyn Cooke. "Today, American…
On this day in 1995, Disney and Pixar released Toy Story, the first full length CGI movie. It grossed $191,773,049 in the United States and it went on to take in a grand total of $354,300,000 worldwide, and was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Original Screenplay, for Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John…
Ratatouille is the latest feature film from Pixar/Disney. Written and directed by Brad Bird (with additional story assists from Jim Capobianco, Emily Cook, Kathy Greenberg and Jan Pinkava), it’s the story of a young mouse (Remy) who finds himself alienated from his family because of his preference for fine cooking over garbage. Lillian Baker (age…
As Lillian Baker and I (plus my entire family) eagerly await the debut of Ratouille from Pixar, Variety reports that the studio’s 2009 release will be Up. This will be about "a 70-year-old man who teams up with a wilderness ranger to fight beasts and villains." The script is by Bob Peterson, and Peter Docter…
