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Disney and Pixar are unstoppable together -- last year they dazzled with WALL-E, and this year brings us Up.It is a touching and funny movie about Carl, a 78 year old man who has just lost his wife, Ellie. The two met when they were young and made a ...

Within a remarkably short period of time, a mere decade, Disney set the course for animation in the 20th century and beyond," Canemaker said. "There would be no 'Toy Story' and no Pixar (Walt Disney Co's animation studio) without Disney personality ...

Mattel also has the toy rights to Disney Pixar Animation Studios Inc.'s "Cars" movie. McGowan said the full-length animated sequel is coming in 2011 and Mattel has the toy rights for it, too. During the webcast, CFO Farr said Mattel remains on track ...

 CT Up (2009) had us wishing all Pixar films were in digital 3-D. Pixar managed to immerse its audiences, both younger and older, into the film just as strong as "Coraline." The anomaly to this animated lineup is My Bloody Valentine 3-D (2009). ...

Bradley plays Phil in the movie which is currently topping the US box office charts, having knocked Pixar animation Up off the top spot. The actor confirmed that the film's success means they will definitely be shooting a sequel. ...

 NY Sure, MO, the OCD cleaning robot (pictured above) in Pixar's 'WALL-E' may not have been the star of the film, but he's got a special place in our hearts. MO is coming to your desk in his real-life, crumb-cleaning form -- easily our most anticipated ...

Disney Enters the Netbook Market? Two versions will be made with a "Princess" model clad in pink and a "Magic Blue" with a more traditional Mickey design. Both have unique software themes installed with various Disney and Pixar properties. No specific release date mentioned with a ...

While the animation has no 'real' locations, the destination of the characters of this movie is South America: Angel Falls and the Tepui's of Venezuela to be exact. Like Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World, Up! Was inspired by these remarkable ...

 CA If you like Achievements too, you're going to discover an immediate fondness for Up, the tie-in title for this summer's Disney-Pixar blockbuster movie, "Up" (if isn't a blockbuster, it's only because the world will have ended). ...

The movie, about a bachelor party in Las Vegas gone wrong, pulled in $33.4m, narrowly beating Pixar animation 'Up' which took $30.5m. Total revenues for the weekend were down on previous years. The American public spent $140m, down 22 per cent on the ...

 UK Once John Lasseter was fired by Disney. Then he became key man in the rise of Pixar. Then Disney bought Pixar. This is Lasseter's first for the parent company, as executive producer, and comes in an interesting middle ground between the two. ...

 MA Pixar continues its dazzling run of producing animated films with heft and zest; “Up” is probably the best film we'll see all summer. But even the lesser “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” offers a wholesome charm that is a respite from ...

You could say he started his career on the right foot when his very first professional job came to him by way of Pixar Animation Studios. His assignment: to work on a little film called “WALL-E.” Now, Jacinto, 23, is ready to show off his second ...

 CA The new Disney/Pixar animated 3-D movie “Up” features the Tepuis and Angel Falls, which is called Paradise Falls in the film. In another stroke of serendipity, Englishman Adrian Warren, a research associate of Angel, was a consultant for “Up.” ”Adrian ...

 UT The results were, in order, favorite to least-favorite: "Finding Nemo" (2003), "Toy Story" (1995), "Monsters, Inc." (2001), "The Incredibles" (2004), "WALL E" (2008), "Cars" (2006), "Up," "Ratatouille" (2007), "Toy Story 2" (1999) and "A Bug's Life" ...

 OH Disney and Pixar are saying they're going to release all of their animated movies in 3-D. That's very significant." From 2005 until this year, he said, "there were a total of nine films, plus some select scenes at IMAX. Then we entered 2009. ...

Stanton also confirmed that the film's being done by Disney, but not a Pixar animation crew. The director is leaning towards an older target audience, and expects the movie to be rated PG-13. Honestly, if he wanted, John Carter of Mars could be rated R ...

No game, especially one using the graphics engine of the Wii, is going to look as good as a Pixar film and it would be the game of the year if it had the same witty dialogue and storytelling. Most movie tie-in games fail completely when compared to the ...

On November 25, 1998, Walt Disney Pictures and the budding Pixar Animation Studio put out their second feature-length computer-animated motion picture after the classic Toy Story, and this movie was called A Bug's Life. When it came out, the movie cost ...

 TX Chief Creative Officer for Disney/Pixar John Lasseter has even gone as far as insisting the studio is “not in the business of making sequels.” Toy Story 2 was the only exception at the time (and a perfect example of a follow-up done right). ... DVD Review: A Bug's Life (Blu-ray) Geeks of Doom

Aaron Hartline is currently an animator at Pixar Animation Studios, where he worked on UP and TOY STORY 3. Prior to that he worked as a supervising animator ... and more »

 OK Unlike, say, the homespun “Boundin'” preceding the sophisticated action of “The Incredibles.” I love them both, but they seem to fit together as well as chicken-fried steak and creme brulee.) Along with the “Toy Story 3″ teaser and the heartachingly ...

Ever since Toy Story in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has kept viewers happy with a parade of strong offerings. Each of their ten feature films has succeeded for different reasons, leaving technological breakthroughs and memorable characters in their ...

 Canada Originally released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1995, Toy Story was the first feature film from Pixar Animation Studios and director John Lasseter. The film went on to receive Oscar nominations for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, ...

As their individuals films do incredible things with franchising and merchandise (Cars and Toy Story especially, notably the two with sequels in-progress), every Pixar film promotes the big brand name, the studio. So it was, once upon a time, ...

AP LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney and Pixar Animation launched their latest cartoon comedy to a No. 1 debut with a $68.1 million weekend for their family adventure "Up." 2. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," Fox, $24353868, 4101 locations, ...

Toy Story 3," the next Pixar film to hit theaters, will release in 2010. This week's "Up," which opened at #1 at the box-office and to critical acclaim, was voted the #4 favorite Pixar film. "The Incredibles" entered at #5. In a distant tenth, ...

 NY Right on the heals of releasing their 10th (and according to my review, one of their best) film Up this weekend, the folks at Disney/Pixar have released the first teaser trailer for their next great adventure, Toy Story 3…can we really blame Pixar for ...

By ERIC D. SNIDER Here it is, the 10th feature film from Pixar Animation Studios, and the 10th one to redefine the rules of animated moviemaking, even compared to previous Pixar films. The studio's last offering, WALL-E, worked hard to establish the ...

 DC BP: I would go to conferences every year, and John Lasseter gave a keynote at SIGGRAPH [conference] about 1985 and I saw: He really "got" how to imbue stiff computer animation with the squash and stretch of Disney animation. Already, he had a taurus of ...

John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich provide a commentary track that has been imported for this release. Finally, Disney includes two shorts. The first is the great “Geri's Game,” the Academy Award-Winner for Best Animated Short Film that ...

 MA White's Up review is essentially an attack agains tthe non-Brad Bird-directed Pixar movies. Here is an excerpt from his review: “Every Pixar film—including the new Up, gushed over by Cannes Film Festival shills—is greeted with nearly patriotic fervor. ...

John Ratzenberger: That's really a question for John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, because they were at the helm when I first started with Pixar all those years ago in the first Toy Story. I don't know. I've never asked them, I've never questioned them. ... Animation Magazine - Ultimate Disney

 New Zealand 13th May 2009 - I've loved Pixar, an animation film company, since I first saw 'A Bug's Life' back in 1998 and have made a point of getting out to the cinema as each of their new films have come out. Over the years I've ranked the Pixar films in my ...

 CA While the script might be a bit jokier than, say, the average Pixar film, there are character moments that would not be out of place in one – and the animation is, for the first time right up to the Pixar level. Then there’s that wonderful 3-D. It ...

By rss@youtube.com (FreeMovieKey) http://tubezoom.com Release Date: May 29, 2009 (Disney Digital 3-D) Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson Screenwriter: Bob Peterson Starring: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo, Jordan Nagai Genr...

It beat out higher profile nominees "Rachel Getting Married" and the Pixar animation spectacular "WALLE." But the Pixar people will still be pleased: "WALL-E" won as best animated feature, in a prelude to Oscar night. ...

By Erick Schonfeld Larry Andreini thinks he can take on Pixar. The founder and CEO of Ridemakerz, a rapidly growing chain of stores where boys can custom-build their own toy cars, is building a virtual world for his 6-to-12-year-old customers and their cars. This virtual world is in closed beta right now, and...

By Kevin Animation is stellar too.  There are a ton of little things are only seen upon a second or third viewing.  For example, when Po falls down the stairs at the beginning, check out the shadow on the floor. By the way, it was recently announced that work has begun on Kung Fu Panda 2.  So far, apparently...

By John Scott Lewinski To give trash-compacting hero Wall-E a more realistic feel, Pixar Animation Studios turned to real NASA robots for inspiration. Early on, director Andrew Stanton and his team wanted insight into how robots move, think and learn. To get the info,... Images courtesy Disney, Pixar, JPL

By Alex Carnevale Having been fired from Disney in his early career, Pixar CEO John Lasseter uses a far different strategy for his company, one that virtually eliminates the costly and unimportant presence of middle management. When they took over Disney Animation, they instituted that structure:

By Jackrabbit Slim Well, Pixar has done it again. The animation studio has, in this person’s view, had an amazing streak of quality films that appeal to both children and adults. I thought only one was a clunker, and that was Cars, and it hindsight it probably suffers in comparison to classics like The Incredib...

By STV Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your handy cheat sheet to the best and worst of this weekend at the movies. Not that a new Pixar film requires much tire-kicking ahead of time, or that we haven't already spilled our guts about its gloriously confectionery pop-trash competition, or th...

From the beginning, Pixar — a beacon for the future of film technology — explored themes of loss, decay, and the dark side of materialism. The old-fashioned toys of Toy Story were soulful repositories of childhood love rendered obsolete by newer and fancier models. Even Pixar’s most routi...

By Joe Webb There are clearly (to me anyway) 3 sections of the book: the personal biographies, Pixar’s wandering in the desert (i.e. - before Toy Story) and then movies. Price begins the book with mini-biographies of each of the people who helped make Pixar what it is today: Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, J...

By Jeff Martin Since the debut of Toy Story more than a decade ago, few tunes have become as familiar as the song of praise so often directed toward the formidable team known as Disney/Pixar, and for good reason. Few studios have been as consistently innovative, in animation and in storytelling, as this n...

First off let me preface this review by saying I am not the biggest fan of Pixar. I feel that that previous story lines have been weak. Even though Pixar's movies have always been somewhat entertaining, they've never reached the the level of classic ...

First off let me preface this review by saying I am not the biggest fan of Pixar. Their movies have always been entertaining, however, certainly never to the level of classic Disney animation. However, all that has changed with Ratatouille, Disney/P...

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A new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art pulls together drawings, paintings, sculpture and, of course, films from throughout animation studio Pixar's 20-year history.