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26 June 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Primer is The A.V. Club's ongoing series of beginners' guides to pop culture's most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This week: Pixar Animation Studio, the company that invented the computer-animated feature film and has become the Walt Disney corporation's most acclaimed imprint. Their ninth full-length film, Wall•E, opens today. Pixar 101 Making movies was never what Pixar's corporate overlords had in mind. They intended to sell specialty imaging computers and software for advanced rendering to businesses like advertising agencies and medical equipment manufacturers. But Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith—the tinkerers who started Pixar to explore the use of computers to produce moving graphics—also wanted to produce work with characters and stories. When they hired John Lasseter at a computer graphics conference on the Queen Mary, the laid-off Disney animator hid from his bosses behind the title

Noel Murray, Donna Bowman

26 June 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Primer is The A.V. Club's ongoing series of beginners' guides to pop culture's most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This week: Pixar Animation Studio, the company that invented the computer-animated feature film and has become the Walt Disney corporation's most acclaimed imprint. Their ninth full-length film, Wall•E, opens today. Pixar 101 Making movies was never what Pixar's corporate overlords had in mind. They intended to sell specialty imaging computers and software for advanced rendering to businesses like advertising agencies and medical equipment manufacturers. But Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith—the tinkerers who started Pixar to explore the use of computers to produce moving graphics—also wanted to produce work with characters and stories. When they hired John Lasseter at a computer graphics conference on the Queen Mary, the laid-off Disney animator hid from his bosses behind the title

Noel Murray, Donna Bowman

25 June 2008 9:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Writer-director Andrew Stanton got in on the ground floor at animation studio Pixar and apparently never looked back. He's been involved in virtually all things Pixar for the past decade and a half; he co-directed A Bug's Life (with John Lasseter) and Finding Nemo (with Lee Unkrich), collaborated on the scripts for the Toy Story movies, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, and provided voices for almost all the above, plus Cars and The Incredibles. This year sees the release of his first solo writing-directing project, the Pixar picture Wall•E, about a trash-compacting robot still doing his job after 700 years alone on an abandoned Earth. The A.V. Club recently spoke with Stanton about the Pixar mentality, making live-action films in slow-motion, Wall•E's resemblance to another movie robot, and why Wall•E is so obsessed with the Barbra Streisand movie Hello, Dolly! The A.V. Club: The.

Tasha Robinson

25 June 2008 9:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Writer-director Andrew Stanton got in on the ground floor at animation studio Pixar and apparently never looked back. He's been involved in virtually all things Pixar for the past decade and a half; he co-directed A Bug's Life (with John Lasseter) and Finding Nemo (with Lee Unkrich), collaborated on the scripts for the Toy Story movies, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, and provided voices for almost all the above, plus Cars and The Incredibles. This year sees the release of his first solo writing-directing project, the Pixar picture Wall•E, about a trash-compacting robot still doing his job after 700 years alone on an abandoned Earth. The A.V. Club recently spoke with Stanton about the Pixar mentality, making live-action films in slow-motion, Wall•E's resemblance to another movie robot, and why Wall•E is so obsessed with the Barbra Streisand movie Hello, Dolly! The A.V. Club: The.

Tasha Robinson

10 June 2008 10:35 PM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

Tuesday 10:00 p.m. (Pacific): Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda ticked up 4 percent from Monday for a $6.56 million Tuesday, which is stronger than the $5.74 million that Pixar's Cars scored on its second weekday in 2006. The John Lasseter-directed early June Disney release went on to a $244 million domestic haul, so Paramount has every reason to be thrilled. Kung Fu Panda has actually out-grossed Cars by about $850,000 after five days in release. Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Sony) scored almost $3.8 million on Tuesday, for a new cume of $46.53 million or so. Sex and the City (Warner Bros.) continued to deliver solid weekday business with an estimated $2.77 million, followed by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount) with $2.27 million. The Strangers (Rogue) placed No. 5 for the day, with just over $1 million and a new cume just shy...

Steve Mason

3 June 2008 5:47 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Brittany Murphy quit Disney movie Tinker Bell, bosses at the studio claim.

It was reported the actress was ditched from her role providing the voice of the animated fairy, and replaced by 19-year-old Mae Whitman.

But Disney executives say Murphy left the project because of scheduling problems.

A representative tells Ok! magazine, "When John Lasseter came on board, the schedule changed, and the new schedule didn't work for her."

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16 April 2008 10:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Ollie Johnston, the last surviving member of Walt Disney's "nine old men" who created such classic animated films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, and Alice in Wonderland, died in Sequim, Washington Tuesday at age 95. In a statement, Roy Disney, Walt's nephew and the third-largest shareholder in the company (after Steve Jobs and Michael Eisner), said, "Ollie was part of an amazing generation of artists, one of the real pioneers of our art, one of the major participants in the blossoming of animation into the art form we know today." Disney Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter said that Johnson "taught me to always be aware of what a character is thinking, and we continue to make sure that every character we create at Pixar and Disney has a thought process and emotion that makes them come alive."

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9 April 2008 5:54 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Walt Disney Pictures has announced its slate of animated movies for the next four years.

At a press conference in New York, Disney chairman d*** Cook and Pixar head John Lasseter revealed twelve big screen films will be released between 2008 and 2012.

First up is Pixar's Wall-e, a science fiction story about a robot who cleans up Earth. Sigourney Weaver will voice a character in the film.

Other high-profile releases include Bolt (2008), about a TV star dog voiced by John Travolta; Up (2009), an adventure film about an aging explorer; . . .

Simon_Reynolds_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Simon Reynolds)

8 articles from 2008