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Welcome to our new regular section in which members of the HeyUGuys family discuss a variety of topics concerning all things cinema. We’ll pick a topic inspired by what’s happening in the world of film and invite our writers to voice their opinions, an invitation we extend to you. If you want to submit your [...]
As if you didn’t already have a good enough reason to go see the new Muppets movie when it opens in U.S. cinemas on November 23rd and in the UK (rather frustratingly) three months later on February 17th 2012, here’s another one: Disney announced at the recent D23 Expo that they’re attaching a new Toy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Coming to a DVD shelf near you in 2013 is a brand new straight to DVD movie called Planes which comes very cleverly from Disney Pixar spinning right off of their Cars franchise which gets its second installment this Summer. Info from the Studio courtesy of /Film: PLANES will introduce an entirely original and hilarious [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios have released the first still from the latest Toy Story installment, a short titled Hawaiian Vacation. Despite having wrapped up the trilogy with the perfect third installment, Pixar made the decision last year to continue the adventures of Woody and the gang in a new series of shorts, set to premiere [...]
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 [...]
Building on their years of work in sfx when part of the computer division of LucasFilm, and their subsequent incarnation as a pioneering hardware company with an animation department that produced computer-animated commercials for other companies, Pixar’s Toy Story was their first feature-length film and the first in a three-picture $26 million deal with Walt [...]
In what is a clear sign of how huge a cultural phenomenon Pixar Studios have become, Slash Film brings news that The United States Postal Service has created a series of Pixar image stamps which are due out this year (August 19th to be precise). Here are the details from the company: This pane of [...]
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 [...]
As has been widely reported, Harry Potter made a massive impact at the box office in the last few weeks, and continues to do so. Success was inevitable, and the level of success predictable. Harry Potter is one of the most popular book series of all time, appealing to fans both young and old. All [...]
Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich is often to be found on Twitter in a state of excitement as his wonderful film continues to break records and garner critical and commercial love and affection wherever it goes. We followed him through the development of the acclaimed third Toy Story film and he was a willing [...]
The chaps over at PixarTimes have given us a heads up for what will probably be an awesome exhibition of all things Pixar including a nice new trailer to promote the Pixar Exhibition (embedded below) which is taking place at the Oakland Museum of California. According to the site, the exhibition has been open for [...]
News come in from Variety that Disney/Pixar’s third adventure of Woody, Buzz and the gang has now made more than $920 million in worldwide box office, making it the biggest grossing animated film of all time. It’s hard to believe (or maybe not, given Pixar’s productivity) that when the first Toy Story was released 15 [...]
Bleeding Cool is reporting that the planned spin-off from Pixar’s Cars, namely “Planes” may not wind up being a Pixar production after all. We initially reported on Planes here, since when sources claim that the storyboarding, layout, final edit and sound mixing will be carried out at Disney Toon Studios which much of the animation [...]
Threequels: traditionally the point when a movie franchise sells out and quality goes out of the window. The Matrix, Spider-man, Shrek, even The Godfather: all series that were creatively bankrupt and utterly out of steam by the time their respective third film lurched into cinemas. So all hail Pixar then, who have confounded the ‘threequels [...]
