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Silence golden in animated films
…in animated films past and present, explaining the effectiveness of the method. Movies reflected upon in the article include Mulan, The Triplets of Belleville, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Incredibles…. |
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\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers
…characters from the trailer, including the hillbilly actually provide memorable moments throughout the film and the voice acting is top notch. Without going into much detail, the 2 most noticeable… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…through the coloration of your voice,” says Shatner. “You’re in a room taking cues from the director about the context of the line—What’s the situation? What’s the energy? What’s the… |
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Films look for both inner child and adult
…child or adult, depending on how old the viewer is. Animated examples in the piece include Chicken Little, Shrek 2, The Incredibles, The Ant Bully, Cars, and Over the Hedge…. |
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Animated aspect of 35th annual Key Art Awards
Honoring the best in film advertising, nominations for the 35th annual Key Art Awards have been announced, via The Hollywood Reporter. Animated entries in the nods include: Chicken Little (5… |
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\\Cars\\ opens today
…story may not reach the high standards of \\Toy Story\\ and \\The Incredibles\\, viewers of all ages will marvel at the technical brilliance of the animation and come away satisfied”…. |
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Pixar luminaries to appear at screenwriting expo
…Life to the emotional depths of Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, Pixar Animation Studios has amassed a string of successful films that remains unparalleled in the history of entertainment. Do… |
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Hip-hop's Williams calls animated films "life-altering"
…[stuff]. I’m a Cartoon Network fan. And Boomerang. That’s the throwback channel for cartoons. So I’m TiVO-ing (recording) The Jetsons and The Smurfs. I’m all the way a Smurfs fan!”… |
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Disney wishes upon a Starz this Thanksgiving
…The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & and the Wardrobe, Chicken Little, Herby: Fully Loaded and The Incredibles. The presentation will begin Thursday, November 23, at 6 a.m…. |
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Bird serves Ratatouille at WonderCon
…Pixar project, Ratatouille. Likewise, he shared several noteworthy details regarding the movie’s story, while also showing a few scenes from the film. Toward the end of the undertaking, Bird answered… |
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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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Interview, Carlos Baena
CG-Node has published an interview with Carlos Baena, an animator at Pixar who has worked on movies such as Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille. Outside of Pixar, Carlos… |
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Pixar makes "Best of" lists
…picks for the top five computer animated movies of all time. Their choices include: 1) The Incredibles, 2) Toy Story, 3) Shrek, 4) Finding Nemo and 5) Toy Story 2…. |
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Ratatouille takes the #1 spot
Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Pixar’s Ratatouille was the number 1 movie in America this weekend, opening big with $47.2 mil this weekend across more then 3,940 theaters. Ratatouille‘s debut… |
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Jungle Book's Rocky the Rhino concepts!
…in the U.S. ($36.99 in Canada) before making the safari back into the vault. Bonus Features: • The Lost Character: Rocky The Rhino – For the first time ever, the… |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…perhaps his best since the spy shenanigans of The Incredibles and interweaving the original cartoon’s theme (which gets a funky remix in the closing credits, naturally) expertly throughout the score…. |
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AFI names Ratatouille a top film of the year
The American Film Institute has announced the official selections for their annual AFI Awards. This year, Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille was named one of the top films of the year. Unlike other… |
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Animation Mentor Celebrates Graduates with Pete Docter
Last Saturday Pixar’s Pete Docter delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of Animation Mentor, “the online animation school by animators for animators” (see our prior writeup). The following… |
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Brad Bird wins Golden Tomato Award
…an interview about the award. This is the second Golden Tomato Bird has received, the first being for The Incredibles in 2004. Ratatouille was deemed the best reviewed wide release… |
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Paul Eiding new WALL•E cast member
…Paul Eiding as providing additional voices for the upcoming Disney/Pixar film WALL•E. Eiding has provided voice work for every Pixar film, except the Toy Story films, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille…. |
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Thumbs down for modern children's films?
An article featured on Guardian criticizes modern children’s films for failing their audiences. The story claims that many current animated releases such as Ratatouille, The Incredibles, and Shark Tale are… |
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Brad Bird on fostering innovation
…focuses on how Bird managed to encourage his crew on his various films to do their best work, and insists that the better the morale of the animators, the better… |
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Yahoo! users rate the top 30 animated films of all time
…White and the Seven Dwarfs 24. Ice Age 25: Ice Age: The Meltdown 26. The Simpsons Movie 27. Over the Hedge 28. Sleeping Beauty 29. The Jungle Book 30. Bambi… |
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Pixar animator presents UK animation workshop
…Gordon has contributed character animation to nearly every major feature the studio has produced. On Academy Award winning film The Incredibles, Andrew spent the majority of his time animating Edna… |
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Kung Fu Panda to reach $120M by Sunday
…that Saturday matinees will need to be big for the animated film to grab the #2 spot since M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening performed much better than expected. Good news… |
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Michael Giacchino to score Pixar's Up
UpcomingPixar, via UpcomingFilmScores, reports that Michael Giacchino will be scoring Pixar’s 2009 feature film, Up. Giacchino’s previous works also include Pixar films such as The Incredibles and Ratatouille…. |
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Wall•E headed off to a $60+M opening weekend
…likely winner of the next animation Oscar, will almost certainly top $20M on opening day. One source told the site $60M+ for the weekend and the other says that early… |
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$65M opening weekend in sight for Wall•E
…a $64–67M three-day weekend. That would make it the third biggest opening for a non-sequel animated film, behind Pixar’s own Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Congratulations to everyone at Disney/Pixar!… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…to them. They’re not the nightmares in the closet. They’re the cheesy, funny monsters you see in the old movies. AV: Despite all these references, your film addresses a contemporary… |
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Michael Giacchino to lead Oscar orchestra
…III, The Family Stone and The Incredibles. He has also composed and conducted the scores for the upcoming Star Trek, Land of the Lost and Pixar’s Up. In 2005 Giacchino… |


