3D Compensating For Decline In Cinema Admissions. For Now At Least!

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The BBC have revealed that despite 2010′s U.K. cinema admissions being down by 2% on the previous year, the overall box office takings came in at £988 million; a whole 5% more than 2009. With this growth being ascribed to the premium prices attributed to 3D tickets, BFI chief executive Anita Nevill is hopeful for the future [...]

Tom Hanks Announces Toy Story 4 Is Being Developed Right Now

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In an interview with Tom Hanks on the BBC Breakfast Show this morning, he told the BBC that not only is Toy Story 4 going ahead, but that it’s being worked on right now, Ain’t It Cool News report. A decade had lapsed in between the releases of the second and third films, which left [...]

New Toy Story Hawaiian Vacation Image Released UPDATED with Hi-Res Image

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Toy Story 3 was a crowning achievement for the most famous CG animation franchise of them all, and while Lee Unkrich’s film wrapped things up very tidily it did leave us wanting more. A chorus of hurrahs met the news that Pixar’s next film, Cars 2, would be fronted by an all new Toy Story [...]

Awesome Fan-Made Pixar Places Posters

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FirstShowing.net is showing off a set of eight great fan-made posters for some of the establishments in the Pixar films, made by Brazilian art student, Mario Graciotti, a.k.a. Mr. Bluebird on deviantART. For anyone interested, he’s also done a great set of posters for Paul Thomas Anderson’s feature films, which you can see here, as [...]

Has the Director of Monsters University Been Named?

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Unconfirmed reports are coming out of Emeryville that Pixar has chosen the director for their recently announced and highly anticipated prequel to Monsters, Inc. Monsters University was revealed to the world a few days ago and will go back to the college days of Mike and Sully where they are rumoured to begin as rivals. [...]

New Clip & Full Synopsis from The Brand New Toy Story Short – Hawaiian Vacation

Disney Pixar have just released this brand new clip from the new Toy Story short which is set to sit in front of Cars 2 when it’s released 22nd July. This timing couldn’t be more perfect after Lee Unkrich and his team walked away with the Best Animation Oscar for Toy Story 3 at this [...]

2011 Oscar Predictions

Internal industry politics and sentiment are always a decisive factor in the Oscar beauty contest, and must always be accounted for (despite the assertions by many that Mickey Rourke would win for The Wrestler a few years ago, I was certain he wouldn’t as he pissed a lot of people off in the early years of [...]

Woody and Buzz Back on the Big Screen – Toy Story Shorts on The Way!

You those of you who are in need of another Toy Story fix already, not one but two shorts are on the way. Variety has posted an article about Disney’s future plans for its various franchises. It’s revealed in the piece that Woody and Co. will be receiving their own cinematic short features alongside the [...]

London Critics’ Circle Film Awards 2011 – The Winners

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Tonight saw the fall of the 31st Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which was held for the first time at London’s BFI Southbank. Our full report will be online later today with all the red carpet gossip and winner’s reactions. Want to see Danny Boyle advertising Moët, hear about Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series, or find [...]

The Oscar For Best Actor Goes To… Buzz Lightyear?

By now, you’ll have heard about the successful Toy Story 3 Oscar nomination campaign, and seen some of the fantastic posters. If not, you can read about it here. It is certainly hard to argue with the strength of the campaign. If any film can claim to be 2010′s big success story, it is easily [...]

My Favourite Things from The Golden Globes 2011

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I woke up very late this today after staying up most the night to watch the Golden Globe Awards 2011. Overall it was a good show but not too many surprises but I thought I’d do a little post detailing my favourite parts of the evening which I’ll list below for your viewing pleasure! If [...]

The Golden Globes 2011 – The Winners

This evening saw the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards was hosted by Ricky Gervais and take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and we were rather excited about it! The Golden Globes are a big indicator at where the big awards, The Oscars may go when they are announced on 27th February. [...]

Producers Guild of America Nominations Announced

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The Producers Guild of America announced the nominations for the 2011 Producers Guild Awards. Highly acclaimed films The Social Network, True Grit, 127 Hours and Black Swan are all nominated in the Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures category, with Toy Story 3, Despicable Me and How to Train Your Dragon competing for the Outstanding [...]

Must See Video: The Beauty of Pixar

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Recently I’ve been watching more and more Pixar films. I’m happy to do this, as it is on the insistence of my two year old son that Toy Storwee is on as often as possible. Like most people I love a good Pixar film, and what is particularly impressive is that nearly all of their [...]

Toy Story 3 Evokes Titanic Spirit for Awards Consideration

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The success of Toy Story 3 is evident in its appearance in the Top 10 films of 2010 lists which are now popping up all over the internet and while it is sure to gather up many awards next year Pixar are still giving us reasons to love them and their film. We’ve seen a [...]

London Critics’ Circle Awards: Nominations

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The nominees for the London Critics’ Circle Awards have been announced. Another Year and The King’s Speech lead with seven nominations apiece. The London Critics’ Circle Awards will take place on February 10, 2011 at the BFI Southbank. Below is the full list of nominees: Sky 3D Award: Film of the Year: Black Swan The [...]

68th Golden Globe Nominations Announced

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The nominees for the 68th Golden Globe awards have just been announced at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Philip Berk was joined by Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel and Blair Underwood to reveal the list of nominees. The 68th annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais, will [...]

Black Swan Leads Critics’ Choice Nominations

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Black Swan, the forthcoming psychological ballet thriller from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky, picked up an unprecedented twelve nominations at the annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The King’s Speech and True Grit follow closely with eleven nominations each, while The Social Network and Inception each accumulated nine. The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will take place on [...]

Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2010: Winners

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The fifth annual Richard Attenborough Film Awards took place in London, UK last night and it was quite an occasion! The Social Network was named film of the year, with Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) picking up the awards for actor and actress of the year, [...]

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2010: Winners

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The winners for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards have been announced. The Social Network picked up the Best Picture award, while it’s director, David Fincher, tied with Olivier Assayas (Carlos) for the coveted Best Director award. Colin Firth and Kim Hye-ja received the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively. The [...]