13 May 2008
Hey, kids, put on your cowboy hats and boots and round up your friends Buzz, Bo Peep and Buzz Lightyear.
13 May 2008
LOS ANGELES -- Studio executives hope they've trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters arrives.
12 May 2008
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12 May 2008
Long before it defined CG-animation excellence with films like Toy Story and The Incredibles , Pixar was a scrappy graphics-software and computer-hardware company, constantly in danger of extinction.
12 May 2008
On Tuesday, the Bowling Green Schools orchestra program will present its annual spring pops concert at 7:30 p.m. in Kobacker...
12 May 2008
We see them on television almost every day with their shows and numerous commercials. We read about them most of the time, but the public can't seem to get enough of these ladies. We hear about their triumphs, including their letdowns in the real world.
12 May 2008
Christian Bale as Batman and Heath Ledger as the Joker. (AP photo) Studio executives hope they've trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters arrives.
11 May 2008
“Indiana Jones”? Check. “Batman”? Yep. Will Smith? Him too. There will be no shortage of box-office draws during the 2008 summer movie season, which is so loaded with potential blockbusters that it may surpass last year's record-setting summer grosses of $4.15 billion, the highest in Hollywood history.
11 May 2008
If springtime in Paris isn't going to work for you this year, rent a movie and pretend. Here are 10 picks for films that best show off the French capital.
10 May 2008
by Joe Crawford
Movies This YearOne of the things we do at work, at lunch and otherwise, is talk about movies, old, new and forthcoming. We kibitz and argue and I get a lot out of it. I like talking about movies about people who care about them. The one movie I am excited about that NOBODY else is is Speed Racer. I think it’...Read the full post from ArtLung BlogTags: General, comics, movies, Illustration, ... continues
9 May 2008
by travis
Summer 2008 Blockbuster SeasonI don’t know about you, but it sure looks to me as if 2008 is shaping up to be one amazing season for moviegoers! Here’s my short list of must-see films: Iron Man ‘Nuff said. Son of Rambow This movie reminds me of my childhood: days spent in the backyard with the video camera, my b...Read the full post from On the Other Hand, by Travis SeitlerTags: c... continues
9 May 2008
by Squidbag Anonymous
Too Many MoviesStarting last week, I am targeted by Hollywood into basically being at the movies all summer long. I am a sucker for the summertime films. "We do not do it out of choice - we do it because we are compelled." I think I caught the bug in 1989, the year that this and ...Read the full post from squidbagTags: film via Blogdigger blog search for "the ... continues
9 May 2008
by Emru Townsend
Speed Racer Learns from Manga, Can Teach Feature Animation a Few ThingsI'm generally not a fan of live-action adaptations of animated TV shows, because they almost always disappoint. The problems usually start with the choices the filmmakers make in order to get animated (or animated-looking) characters into a live action universe. The Flintstones had fake-looking rock...Read the full post from Fr... continues
7 May 2008
I recently discovered an anti-tantrum trick that actually works. When my 22-month-old son starts to fuss, I quote from his two favorite movies - "Star Wars" or "The Incredibles." I can usually sidestep a meltdown for about 20 minutes by throwing out movie quotes.
6 May 2008
by Jackson West
Pixar's Wall-E photographed in the wild by departed Revision3 host [Hires]Nearly a year to the day after signing up to co-host of Revision3 geek how-to show Systm, David Randolph has left the show to pursue a gig with an unnamed new client — that a tipster is guessing to be Pixar, based on a blurry phonecam picture of the studio's latest creation, Wall-E. It makes s...Read the full post from... continues
5 May 2008
by Gary Sassaman
My big fat summer movie preview (May + June)...Iron Man certainly jump-started the summer movie season, didn't it? While the official weekend take is now a little south of $100 million, it's still gold-plated. There's a lot of movies coming out this summer, even though May 2 is hardly the start of the sunny season (even by San Diego standards). ...Read the full post from Innocent BystanderTags: Ho... continues
5 May 2008
by David Goldenberg
Putting a Value on Worker MoraleA happy worker works twelve times harder than an unhappy one, according to Pixar's Brad Bird. Tucked deep into a McKinsey Quarterly interview with Bird (and plucked out by blogger Jason Kottke), is this quote from the guy behind The Incredibles and Ratatouille. In my experience, the thing that has t...Read the full post from BNET BlogsTags: WORKER, Morale, David Gol... continues
4 May 2008
by CRS
SUMMER 2008 MOVIE PREDICTIONS PART 2!this entry brought to you by gnarls barkley, "whatever" if you missed yesterday's entry and want to read more movie predictions, click here. June 6th You Don't Mess with the Zohan I'm not a big fan of Adam Sandler movies, but I'm in the minority-- mainstream audiences love 'em. To this movie's advan...Read the full post from bitterisataste: words and ramblings ... continues
3 May 2008
Wired.com Readers' Most-Wanted Rare Gadgets: We asked our readers to submit the coolest, hardest-to-find gadgets they could think of. After two weeks, these are the favorites. There are far too many gems to include here, so visit the rare-gadget submission page to browse more than 100 entries. Left: Smallest Mechanical Pocket Calculator Subm...Read the full post from TechnologyOwl.comTags: Technol... continues
1 May 2008
by Scott the Reader
The 22 Most Interesting Movies of the Next 4 MonthsNot necessarily good, mind you, just interesting. On my radar. IRON MAN (May 2). They've cast the hell out of it with Oscar nominees, but word is that it's a little uneven. A "maybe". SON OF RAMBOW (May 2). This is supposed to be funny, and moves that rise out of the festival circuit to get decent r...Read the full post from ALLIGATORS IN A HELICO... continues
9 Jun 2006
jkottke : First trailer for Ratatouille, by Pixar and Brad Bird (who did The Incredibles and The Iron Giant) - First trailer for Ratatouille, by Pixar and Brad Bird (who did The Incredibles and The Iron Giant). ps. Cars opens today! Zoom! Rod Begbie : Apple - Trailers - Ratatouille - The next Pixar movie, directed by Brad Bird. If your PC can handle it, try watching the HD trailers. The detail
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22 May 2006
jkottke : Pixar: where are all the women? - Pixar: where are all the women? "To date, there's not a single Pixar film that has a female main character: The Incredibles comes the closest, but even there, both Helen Parr/Elastigirl and Violet are supporting characters, and it's Bob Parr/Mr. Incredibl
12 Oct 2005
jkottke : Why Pixar can't leave Disney - Edward Jay Epstein on why Pixar should make nice with Disney again. Bottom line: Disney owns the sequel rights to all of Pixar's films and Pixar can't afford to do battle against Toy Story 3 or The Incredibles 2 in future summers.
2 Jul 2005
jkottke : Pixar's stock drops because of smaller-than-expected sales of The Incredibles DVD
7 Apr 2005
jkottke : Terry Gross interviews The Incredibles director Brad Bird on NPR - "So, what does the director of an animated film actually do?"
29 Mar 2005
jkottke : ReadyMade interviews Brad Bird about his job, movies, and The Incredibles Matthew M. Boedicker : interview with animator and director Brad Bird
23 Jan 2005
jkottke : The Incredibles DVD available for preorder on Amazon - Release date is March 15.
19 Jan 2005
philgyford : The Ward-O-Matic: The Polar Express: A Virtual Train Wreck (conclusion) - Interesting, fun post about computer modelling of humans for animation. jkottke : Fixing the poor animation in The Polar Express - Also a bit about Gollum, The Incredibles, and the uncanny valley. Tags : animation computergraphics movies top
15 Nov 2004
jkottke : Jessica Helfand on the design of The Incredibles - "Design looms large in this new world vision [of Pixar]. And thanks to Edna Mode, we now we have our very own superhero to prove it." plasticbag : Design Observer on "The Invisibles" - Basically talking about the role of design and the character of the designer within The Invisibles. Mr Biddulph and I went to see the film a we
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11 Nov 2004
jkottke : The Incredibles was just as good the second time around
