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Academy Screens 45 Shorts for Oscar Consideration
Last weekend, the Academy screened the 45 projects that were submitted for Best Animated Shorts consideration. Members of the Shorts and Animation branch of the Academy will vote for the 10 titles to be included on the short list and we will finally learn about the final five nominees with [...]
Disney Releases First Image from Pixar’s ‘Small Fry’
USA Today unveiled the first image from the new Toy Story short Small Fry today. The short accompanies The Muppets (in theaters on Nov. 23). Directed and written by Pixar veteran Angus McLane (BURN.E), the adventure finds Buzz Lightyear accidentally trading places with a Happy Meal-type toy at a fast food [...]
‘Pooh,’ ‘Cars 2′ Return to Big Screen at El Capitan
Disney has scheduled a return engagement in Hollywood for two of its summer releases: Winnie the Pooh and Cars 2. The features will begin playing at the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard starting this Friday, Nov. 4, and continuing through Nov. 20. Screenings of Pooh will include the short [...]
Del Toro to Shepherd DreamWorks Feature ‘Alma’
DreamWorks Animation is moving ahead on its next film with Guillermo del Toro, who will oversee a feature based on the short film Alma, according to the Los Angeles Times. The feature version of Alma will be scripted by Megan Holley and directed by Rodrigo Blaas, formerly of Pixar. Del [...]
Disney-Pixar’s Lasseter Gets Star on the Walk of Fame
Fans can finally walk all over John Lasseter — and he’s thrilled about it. The creative head of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, as well as the director of Toy Story 1 and 2, A Bug’s Life and Cars 1 and 2, received Tuesday a star on the Hollywood [...]
‘Cars 2′ Discs Ready to Roll on Home
Cars 2 crosses the home video finish line this week, bringing the most-recent feature from Pixar home in multiple formats and with plenty of extras. The first Pixar film to be released in the 3D Blu-ray format, Cars 2 (Disney-Pixar, $39.99 Blu-ray-DVD combo pack, $39.99 two-disc DVD, $49.99 five-disc Blu-ray [...]
‘Phineas and Ferb’ Movie Adds ‘Toy Story 3′ Scribe Micheal Arndt
Disney has hired Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt, who wrote Toy Story 3 for Pixar, to polish its script for a movie version of its hit animated series Phineas and Ferb, reports say. Arndt, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay to Little Miss Sunshine, will do a draft of [...]
John Lasseter Defends ‘Cars 2′
In time for the release of Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 on DVD, John Lasseter spoke to The New York Times today (Oct. 17) about the movie’s reception and the various challenges of overseeing all the movies at Pixar and Disney Animation. “When there’s a lot of money at stake, as there [...]
Jobs Wanted Sorkin to Write a Pixar Pic
In an article in this week’s Newsweek, Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, The West Wing) reveals that the late Steve Jobs wanted him to write a Pixar movie. According to Sorkin, Jobs would call him to compliment him on a TV episode or movie he had penned from [...]
Rising Stars of Animation: 2011
We searched high and low to find some of the brightest, bravest and most talented up-and-coming over-achievers in the toon scene. Zack Keller & Ed Skudder Co-Creators, Dick Figures [6 Point Media] Work goes faster when you have a good buddy helping you out—or hurling insults at you, or postulating [...]
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The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
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The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
