Monthly Archives: June 2011

Cars 2″ beats “Kung Fu Panda 2″ in foreign race


Cars 2

In the bat­tle of the sequels at the inter­na­tional box office, Pixar-Disney’s Cars 2 flew past the check­ered flag over the week­end, open­ing at $42.9 million.

Although it played in fewer coun­tries, Cars 2 out­grossed Dream­Works Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2.

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Cars 2″ co-director Brad Lewis switching studios


Brad Lewis

Long­time Pixar fig­ure Brad Lewis, co-director with John Las­seter of the just-released Cars 2, is chang­ing garages.

Lewis is mov­ing on to direct ani­mated fea­tures at Tra­di­tion Stu­dios, based in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The com­pany is owned by Dig­i­tal Domain Media Group.

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Sinbad The Sailor (1935) — ComiColor Cartoons Theatrical Cartoon Series

Sinbad The Sailor (1935) - ComiColor

Sin­bad bat­tles a band of pirates (includ­ing a hearty, liquor-swilling pirate chief) at sea and on a trop­i­cal isle. A giant bird res­cues Sin­bad and flies off with him, and he ends up back on his ship with the pirates’ trea­sure. The pirate flag takes on dif­fer­ent expres­sions.
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Ratatouille (2007) — Feature Length Theatrical Animated Film

Ratatouille (2007) - Feature Length Theatrical Animated

A rat named Remy dreams of becom­ing a great chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvi­ous prob­lem of being a rat in a decid­edly rodent-phobic pro­fes­sion. When fate places Remy in the city of Paris, he finds him­self ide­ally sit­u­ated beneath a restau­rant made famous by his culi­nary hero, Auguste Gusteau.
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Trailer Up For PIXAR’s “Brave”

Pixar's Brave

PIXAR’s Cars 2 is still fresh (and clean­ing up!) in the­aters, and PIXAR releases the first video trailer for the next big film, Brave.
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Eagleman Stag” wins at Los Angeles Film Festival

The Eagleman Stag

Mikey Please’s “The Eagle­man Stag,” pro­duced at Britain’s Royal Col­lege of Art, won the award for Best Ani­mated Short Film at the Los Ange­les Film Fes­ti­val, the fest announced Sunday.

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Lost Town of Switez” wins at Palm Springs fest

The Lost Town of Switez

Palm Springs Inter­na­tional Short­Fest named a Polish-Canadian pro­duc­tion by Kamil Polak titled “The Lost Town of Switez” as the Best Ani­mated Short at the festival.

Other Win­ners Include:

Inter­reg­num
The Cord-Woman
The Fan­tas­tic Fly­ing Books of Mr. Mor­ris Less­more
Danny & Annie,

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Possible Toy Story 4?

Tom Hanks Woody

Tom Hanks was asked if any­one at Pixar has talked to him about voic­ing Woody again in a pos­si­ble Toy Story 4. Hanks was being inter­viewed on BBC Break­fast News on Mon­day while over­seas to pro­mote his new movie Larry Crowne.
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Cars 2″ in pole position, opens with $68 million

Cars 2

For the 12th time run­ning, a Pixar film has opened to win the race at the box office.

The Dis­ney unit’s Cars 2 defeated all chal­lengers this week­end with a $68 mil­lion opener, accord­ing to stu­dio esti­mates Sun­day.
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Easter Yeggs (1947) — Looney Tunes Theatrical Cartoon Series

Easter Yeggs (1947) - Looney Tunes

As Bugs Bunny reads a book on “How to Mul­ti­ply,” he is inter­rupted by a cry­ing Easter Bunny who com­plains of sore feet. Bugs vol­un­teers, “I’ll deliver the Tech­ni­color hen fruit for ya!” Reminded to “keep smil­ing,” Bugs sings a gooney song, “I’m the Easter Rab­bit, Hooray.“
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WALL•E (2008) — Feature Length Theatrical Animated Film

WALL•E (2008) - Feature Length

The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will dis­cover what he was meant for.
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Beauty And The Obese (2003) — Stripperella Cartoon Episode Guide

Beauty And The Obese (2003) - Stripperella Cartoon Episode Guide

Some­one is turn­ing the city’s super­mod­els hideously fat. Is it the dubi­ous mod­el­ing agent, Nairesec Rot­cod? Or is it the dubi­ous plas­tic sur­geon, Dr. Cesar­ian? Or is it a third dubi­ous per­son we haven’t men­tioned?
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A Scent Of The Matterhorn (1989) — Looney Tunes Theatrical Cartoon Series

A Scent Of The Matterhorn (1961)

Pepé chases that cat all over the Alps.
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Tummy Trouble (1989) — Theatrical Animated Film

Tummy Trouble (1989) - Theatrical Animated Film

Three kit­tens, denied milk as pun­ish­ment for mis­be­hav­ing, sail up into Tummy Trou­ble in a hot air bal­loon. Once in Tummy Trou­ble, they find it a land of nat­ural milk springs and gush­ers.
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The Milky Way (1940) — Theatrical Animated Film

The Milky Way (1940)

Three kit­tens, denied milk as pun­ish­ment for mis­be­hav­ing, sail up into the Milky Way in a hot air bal­loon. Once in the Milky Way, they find it a land of nat­ural milk springs and gush­ers.
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