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Chugging past the $200 million mark any day now, the Disney/Pixar winner has made sport of the skeptics (particularly financial analysts) who doubted the appeal of an animated feature about a 78-year-old widower. Kids'll never go for it, they figured. ...

At the rate it's going, "Up" will soon surpass the $206.4 million grossed by Pixar's "Ratatouille" in summer 2007, and the $223.8 million grossed domestically by Pixar's "Wall-E" last summer. "Finding Nemo," released in 2003, cumed $339.7 million ...

Disney's latest Pixar animation hit "Up" came in a close second again with sales of $30.5 million. Sony's thriller "The Taking of Pelham 123" left the station with just $25 million onboard to land third in its debut weekend. "Pelham 123," a remake of ...

 IL In Maine, you can count on one hand the number of theaters that showed Pixar Animation's "Up" in 3-D when it opened recently. Pixar and rival DreamWorks say all future movies they produce will be released in 3-D. Those who haven't made the costly ...

Ok, I admit I was excited to see the Toy Story Teaser from Pixar. I'm just a huge animation fan, and Pixar is one of the most amazing stories in ... vodpod.com

By Laura M. Bollin If you're heading to a movie theater, perhaps to see the new Disney-Pixar film, there's a website that could help you know when to get "Up" and go to the bathroom. Runpee.com was launched in August by Los Angeles-based freelance ...

  USA By Jamie Folsom, with special guest commentators My family loves Pixar Studio movies, and all of us put “Up” near the top when it comes to quality of animation and originality. Over the years, each of us has eventually gravitated toward the more ...

The rest of the film doesn't quite live up to its opening, but this is a measured, intelligent and strangely memorable slice of life. At Bay Area theaters. Up: The latest from Pixar is a strange mix - except that it's an increasingly common one with ...

 AZ Up *** 1/2 — An old man (voiced by Ed Asner) meets an adventurer and gets to explore the world in this Pixar film. Rated G. El Con, Marketplace, Century Park, Park Place, Cinemark, DeAnza, Desert Sky, Foothills, Harkins, Tower, Oasis. ...

Docter said the Pixar animators often zero in on voices by putting on old movies and TV shows with the picture off, listening only to the audio to see who ... and more »

 CA Pixar are just the masters of film technique. They use editing to play with reality and imagination. They use sound tricks, just every trick at their disposal to create the greatest storytelling experience. Up is a high stakes adventure like nothing ...

 NY UPST Up (3.5 stars) — In the latest Pixar animation, an 8-year-old boy stows away for the ride when a 78-year-old man ties thousands of balloons to his house so he can fly off to explore South America. PG for some peril and action. ...

 AZ An old man meets an adventurer and gets to explore the world in this Pixar film. 87 minutes. Review on Page 12. El Con, Marketplace, Century Park, Park Place, Cinemark, DeAnza, Desert Sky, Foothills, Harkins, Oasis, Tower. Angels & Demons ** — PG-13 ...

 AZ Pixar and Disney are known for their films' stellar visuals and Up, their latest effort is still setting the animation bar ever higher. From Toy Story to Wall-E , Pixar has revolutionized animated storytelling for the 21st century. In Up, Pixar's scope ...

 NV In front of the Castro Theater there was a long line of people, many with children awaiting a special showing of the latest Disney/Pixar film 'Up.' Outside the theater, one man let his feelings be known about same sex marriage, carrying a sign calling ...

 UK In the Pixar film Wall-E you saw something like that with the fat humans unable to do anything about robot control because they just didn't know how to move anymore. Robotics expert Daniel H. Wilson says the super-intelligent robot is unlikely, ...

Pixar veterans Pete Doctor and Bob Peterson collaborate to direct this movie. Doctor, who wrote the "Toy Story" movies and "Wall-E," co-directs with writer Peterson, who created "Ratatouille" and "Finding Nemo." John Ratzenberger, best known for his ...

Indiantelevision.com  MA Potter, and the rise of Pixar Animation Studios, creator of such films as "Toy Story," "Ratatouille" and "WALL‚‚E," showed Hollywood that family movies didn't have to bear the Disney imprimatur, or evince only sweetness and light, to be embraced. ...

The folks at Pixar have cooked up another unlikely adventure with their new film, “Up.” Ed Asner provides the voice of the cranky old man whose dream is a life of adventure. After seeing the film at the Cannes Film Festival, the UK Telegraph wrote, ...

Daily Mail  United States In some international territories, the same film can do five times as much business in 3-D theaters as on 2-D screens, and Pixar Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. and Walt Disney Co. have made a commitment to produce an array of 3-D ...

  United States DISNEY/PIXAR “Disney on Ice” presents a new ice show featurings the characters from “Cars,” today through Sunday at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. Concert in the Grove: Mixon's Fruit Farm, 2712 26th Ave. E., Bradenton A Concert in the Grove will be ...

EPA/CAROLINE BLUMBERG (LR) Director Pete Docter, director Bob Peterson, producer Jonas Rivera, singer and actor Charles Aznavour, actor Tom Trouffier, Executive Producer John Lasseter, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios Edwin Catmull, and Pixar ...

Hollywood Reporter The film is directed by Pixar veteran Pete Docter, who joined the studio in 1990—just the third animator to be brought on board. Along with Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, Docter developed the story and characters for “Toy Story,” Pixar's first ...

 United States Writing in March on his personal blog, burtonia.com, he urged parents with daughters to avoid Pixar films because a long list of them — from “Toy Story” to the forthcoming “Up” — had featured male animated leads, to the disadvantage of some very ...

 UK - Mike Goodridge Docter, who joined Pixar in 1990, animating and directing commercials before working on story and characters for Toy Story, explains the film was divided into 30 sequences. At the beginning of the process, two or three key sequences are storyboarded. ...

 - J.R. Jones, J.R. Jones You could throw five hundred Pixar animators at this idea, and they'd be sure to fuck it up. But toilng alone at her computer, Paley made it work. Hanhaw's recordings are in the public domain, but Paley neglected to clear the publishing rights for the ...

 South Korea This film, on the other hand, just glosses over the pain that comes with such a catastrophe. A Pixar piece would have closely examined such emotional conflict. There are a few chuckles to be had in Monsters vs. Aliens, but none that will stay with you. ...

 IL It may not be a coincidence that the closest modern sensibility I can think of is animated: Pixar’s Ratatouille and Finding Nemo both operate on the same basic principles.) It’s the sort of movie that gives those who do know it the satisfyingly ...

Trailer Rated-PG-13 A more recent movie that is on DVD is “Wall-E,” by "Disney's Pixar Entertainment" is a film that has the ability to leave us believing in the power of our abilities to help the condition of our planet as well as the condition of our ...

 UK Three-dimensional films are popular — all Disney and Pixar animation will be 3-D from now on — but a company called D-Box Technologies really wants to shake up the industry. This weekend’s release in the US of the street-racing film Fast & Furious will ...

  Canada Move over Pixar and Disney, this highly anticipated, brand new Dreamworks picture makes its debut at the end of the festival (and then continues for two weeks after). Monsters VS Aliens combines B-movie nostalgia with futuristic technology to create an ...

My favorite movie of 2008 – by far – was WALL-E. In fact, I would go so far as to say it's in the running for my favorite Pixar film ever, but I think that's a judgment that needs time before I come to any real conclusions. It was a gorgeous film, ... 2009 Calvins: Jason Lee's Ballots Box Office Prophets

Seattle Post Intelligencer  SC A win for "WALL-E," the heavy favorite, would be the fourth feature-length animation Academy Award for the wizards at Pixar, following "Ratatouille," "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles," half of the eight trophies since the category was added in 2001. ...

SK Telecom mobile subscribers with a VOD-enabled device will be able to stream without interruptions the latest movies and TV hits from Walt Disney Studios, Disney/Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax. It is the first time Disney has made an ...

 MA When a new Disney or Pixar film is released, I take my 9-year-old son to a late afternoon matinee — sometimes he can bring a friend with whom he can share a large popcorn and a box of Sour Patch Kids. But “grown up movies” — I choose that term over ...

 India Based on our measures, Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille was the top film of the year, Universal Pictures' The Bourne Ultimatum was No. 2 and The Simpsons Movie from News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox was third. To arrive at the numbers--the nominating process, ...

 CT - In all, 29 Disney or Disney-Pixar characters are now in the ride, which I imagine requires attendees to disembark in a 350000-square-foot gift shop with no ...

 UK - Half-term is here and following last week's delightful Disney-Pixar animated film Bolt come two live action movies aimed at family audiences. ...

 Canada - The Disney-Pixar movie about the lone robot left on Earth changed all that by ensuring the actual frames reflected the larger theme of what it means to be ...

Also stop animation, a dying artform with companies now that DreamWorks and Pixar dominate animation technology was great to see again. The painstaking process of making a movie in this form is a salute to the dedication and care that Selick and his ...

 - Disney will be showing off the Pixar film Up (May 29), about an old man who attaches helium balloons to his house and floats away on an adventure, ...

 AZ - Much of that's from his sale of Pixar to Disney. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hannah Montana, meet Aaron Stone. The Walt Disney Company is launching a new series ...

Jobs got the stock when he sold his Pixar Animation Studios to Disney in 2006. Associated Press Media giant Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that it expects ... Steve Jobs profile: Apple's hard core Scotland on Sunday Steve Jobs One of a kind Economist

 Taiwan - This Disney feature, executive produced by Pixar genius John Lasseter, has all the hallmarks of his earlier classics: Adorable characters, clever humor, ...

BBC News  CA - Dec 17, 2008 But with Pixar lobbying for "Wall-E" as a best picture (as opposed to best animated picture) nominee and its recent claim on that award from the Los Angeles ... Bolt, WALL•E, Madagascar Songs on Oscar List Animation Magazine all 91 news articles

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