Tag Archives: Pixar

Cartoon for the Day: One Man Band

One Man Band

While it was eight years ago today that PIXAR released One Man Band, it almost another half year for any­one to see it. Well, any­one that wasn’t in France at Annecy, at least. DO you remem­ber what film this was ulti­mately paired with for it’s the­atri­cal release?

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Brave wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature


Golden Globe

The highest-grossing ani­mated film of 2012 won the Golden Globe Award for Best Ani­mated Fea­ture Film on Sun­day night.

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3 Animated Features up For British Academy Awards


British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

Brave,” “Franken­wee­nie” and “Para­Nor­man” are the three nom­i­nees announced Wednes­day in the Ani­mated Film cat­e­gory of the EE British Acad­emy Film Awards, also known as the BAFTAs.

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Blue Umbrella serves as cover for Monsters U.

The Blue Umbrella

To be released just before the new fea­ture film Mon­sters Uni­ver­sity on June 21, the six-minute short Blue Umbrella will be the first Pixar film to be made by one of its tech­ni­cal artists.

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Cartoon of the Day: Tokyo Mater


Tokyo Mater

Release with the Dis­ney fea­ture Bolt, Tokyo Mater was part of Pixar’s Cars Toons series based on the char­ac­ters from the hit movie Cars. This series of short car­toons fea­ture the char­ac­ters Mater and Light­ning McQueen in var­i­ous the­atri­cal shorts.

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Netflix, Disney Announce Feature Film Agreement

Walt Disney Studios

Net­flix Inc. and The Walt Dis­ney Com­pany announced Tues­day a new multi-year licens­ing agree­ment that will make Net­flix the exclu­sive United States sub­scrip­tion tele­vi­sion ser­vice for first-run ani­mated and live-action fea­ture films from The Walt Dis­ney Studios.

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Brave, Guardians, Ralph each up for 10 Animation Annies

Annie Awards

Three fea­ture films each have received 10 nom­i­na­tions for the 49th Annual Annie Awards, rec­og­niz­ing the year’s best in the field of ani­ma­tion. The three are Brave (Pixar Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios), Rise of the Guardians (Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion) and Wreck-It Ralph (Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios). All three are among the eight nom­i­nees for Best Ani­mated Feature.

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Animated Monsters Gets A New Poster

Monsters University

Mon­sters Inc sequel Mon­sters Uni­ver­sity gets a new pro­mo­tional poster. The new film, set for release next June, will reunite Billy Crys­tal and John Good­man as Mike Wazowski and James P. ‘Sul­ley’ Sul­li­van, in a pre­quel of their col­lege days together.

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Pixar’s WALL-E Finds Place in Robot Hall of Fame

WALL-E

The Robot Hall of Fame inducted WALL•E, the fic­tional robot of the name­sake Pixar movie, dur­ing a cer­e­mony Tues­day evening at Carnegie Sci­ence Cen­ter in Pittsburgh.

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More Moviegoers Find Resident Evil Than Nemo

Finding Nemo

Find­ing Nemo” nar­rowly lost the swim­ming race with Res­i­dent Evil: Ret­ri­bu­tion at the North Amer­i­can box office this past week­end, accord­ing to stu­dio esti­mates released Sunday.

A 3D ver­sion of the 2003 Pixar-Disney smash hit, Find­ing Nemo charted at No. 2 spot in the United States and Canada to open at $17.5 mil­lion, accord­ing to Disney.

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The Legend of Mor’du Short Announced For Brave Blu-Ray

The Legend of Mor'du

With Disney’s announce­ment for a Novem­ber 13, 2012 Blu-ray release of the Pixar hit Brave, also comes the news of a new short based in the new Brave world. Extras on the release will include a new short called, The Leg­end of Mor’du as well as 2001’s the­atri­cally released La Luna (which was shown before Brave in it’s the­atri­cal release).

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Brave takes top position at British box office

Brave

Pixar’s “Brave” col­lected an esti­mated $4.3 mil­lion from about 565 screens in the United King­dom, lead­ing that country’s box office in its fourth weekend.

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Andrew Stanton finding a second “Nemo” to direct


Finding Nemo II

Direc­tor Andrew Stan­ton is return­ing to full ani­ma­tion with a sequel to Pixar’s 2003 clas­sic Find­ing Nemo.

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Finding Nemo (2003) — PIXAR Animated Film

Finding Nemo

#CotD: The box office cham­pion of 2003, “Find­ing Nemo” cost a mere $94 mil­lion to make.

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Partly Cloudy (2009) — PIXAR Animated Film

Partly Cloudy

#CotD: released the­atri­cally with the film Up, “Partly Cloudy” was a new look at the clas­sic stork stories.

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