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John Lasseter: "The Man Who Could Save Animation"
…and Disney animation studios, and Principal Creative Advisor at Walt Disney Imagineering. Explaining his past, present, and future responsibilities, the article also notices Lasseter’s love of cars, details, and quality…. |
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Toy industry looks to film industry for sales
…toy companies. Movies mentioned in the composition include the Star Wars saga, The Da Vinci Code, Superman Returns, Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and Mission: Impossible III…. |
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Pixar catching up to NASA
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the phenomenal computing power that went into the highly detailed production of Pixar’s Cars, with NASA being the only American organization that has more…. |
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El Capitan roundup
…be presented in all its big top, big screen glory. From June 9 to July 4, Disney/Pixar’s Cars will be screened beginning with a special midnight showing on opening night… |
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Family films versus World Cup
…fare internationally, as the World Cup comes into play. Movies in the study include Over the Hedge, Cars, Monster House, The Ant Bully, and Garfield’s A Tale of Two Kitties…. |
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Where The Wild things are
…Samson, Larry, Benny, Nigel, and Ryan from Disney’s The Wild (opening a week from today) have been made available in plush form from Snaptoys. And more Cars plushies as well…. |
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Pixar releases financial results for fiscal second quarter
…performance of The Incredibles, which is by far the highest-selling DVD in 2005,” noted Pixar CEO, Steve Jobs. “Cars is almost completed and is looking fantastic, and we have no… |
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Summer movie premiere season
o-meon has updated with a report on the sometimes elaborate premieres for Disney movies. Special focus is given to the pending premieres for Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead… |
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Speculation on Lasseter's and Catmull's roles at Disney
…side note, the article mentions that DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg attended the recent Cars screening at ShoWest, where he was seated in a V.I.P. section reserved for Disney’s guests…. |
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Pixar finds "record results" in 2005
…films have grossed more than $3.2 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The Northern California studio’s next two film releases are Cars (June 9, 2006) and Ratatouille (summer… |
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Catmull's pay hike
…President Ed Catmull has been raised by Pixar to an annual salary of $1 million. Maybe now he can get a Cars pool next to his Finding Nemo swimming pool…. |
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Release date news: Dumbo, Leroy & Stitch, Toy Story, JoJo, Kim Possible
…entry of Cars will meet the temporary price reductions of both Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition and Toy Story 2: Special Edition DVDs. Lastly, the newsletter unveils word that Disney… |
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UPDATED: Disney acquires Pixar
…an exclusive basis five original computer-animated feature films for distribution by Disney. Pixar is currently in production on the final film under that agreement, Cars, to be distributed by Disney… |
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Disney Day-After-Christmas New Release: Toy Story 2
…Also, get a brand new sneak peek of Pixar’s Cars: This is an entirely different sneak peek than the one that was on the DVD for the first Toy Story…. |
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Joe Ranft, dead at 45
…on Pixar’s next film, \\Cars\\. In a statement released Wednesday, Pixar said “Joe was an important and beloved member of the Pixar family, and his loss is of great sorrow… |
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One Man Band, two new articles
The Age [free registration required] writes of the latest short film from Pixar, One Man Band, which will play in front of Cars next summer. The article includes a fresh… |
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Pixar to appear at RiverRun
…at the making of Cars, explaining how their films evolve from their initial concept stage to final film, as well as showing film clips from the Pixar Vaults and talking… |
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[Press release] Ratatouille 9-minute preview
…Peter O’Toole Original Story by: Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird Academy Award®-winning director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and the amazing storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios (Cars, Finding Nemo) take… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…own voice work for Pixar’s Cars 2 to the screen as Juliet’s Dad, while Maggie Smith is Gnomeo’s Mother, with others in the line-up also including Richard Wilson and Julie… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…Finally a stills Gallery presents a pretty decent amount of park imagery, mostly concept drawings for things as varied as the entrance, ride cars, facades and even individual characters. But… |
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The Wild
…it being a “remake of Madagascar” out of the window. Yes, both films feature lions among their central characters, but the differences between Madagascar’s Alex and The Wild’s Samson couldn’t… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
…after Disney revealed the artwork for the upcoming Blu-Ray Disc edition of their Pixar-created Cars [left] comes news that the standard DVD – Pixar’s slimmest in content, remember – picked… |
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Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…
…format so far, look for that to change this fall as both Pixar (with Cars and Ratatouille) and DreamWorks (the Shreks) start to release their considerable catalogs. And after that… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…Used Cars, Back To The Future (and its two just-as-good sequels), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Contact and Cast Away – each one a gem, or… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…with voters, technically down to the fact that this was mo-capped animation to Cars’ keyframes, and creatively in that it promotes itself as a comedy but displays no assured actual… |
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Blu-Ray Pans and Chickens…
…to come with the release of Cars in the not-so-distant future, are the details supplied for Chicken Little on Blu-Ray Disc. 1080p video and uncompressed 48kHz, 16-bit 5.1 audio make… |
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Disney on the web; Night At The Museum; Oscar noms 2007
Disney online gets more interactive, Night At The Museum entertains internationally at number one for the fourth week running, Cars set for a lock at the Oscars?… |
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Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?
…Comedy Club, while Cars is the most recent of the bunch, getting a ride-based attraction set to open at Disneyland Paris. Which leaves the classic stable of Walt’s original characters… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…a little like the Germs from the Iwerks cartoon above, come to wreck havoc by causing the collision of many a storybook character’s cars. It’s true that Once Upon A… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew From London To Paris In 25 Hours And 11 Minutes, which made the switch from cars to vintage airplanes, again packing in an… |
