Tag: Toy Story
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Ralph Eggleston, Pixar Animator Behind ‘For the Birds’ and ‘Toy Story,’ Dies at 56
Ralph Eggleston, an Academy Award-winning animator, art director and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios, died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old.Eggleston won the animated short film Oscar for writing and directing the 2001 Pixar film “For the Birds.”Pixar tweeted a tribute to him, saying, “Pixar and…
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Pixar’s ‘Hyperreal’ Animation Convinced Tom Hanks To Take A Chance On Toy Story
The tale of how “Toy Story” came to be is greatly tied up in the start of Pixar Animation as well. After director John Lasseter was fired for pushing for an entirely computer-animated feature at Disney, he moved on to Lucasfilm and helped found the animation house in 1986. It was there he created an…
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Box Office: ‘DC League of Super-Pets’ Unleashing 22 Million Opening
Even superheroes’ dogs open at the top of the box office.The animated comedy “DC League of Super-Pets” looks to top domestic charts in its opening, projecting a debut of 22 million. The film earned 9.3 million from 4,314 theaters on opening day, a figure which includes 2.2 million in Thursday preview ticket sales.That’s enough for…
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Andrew Stanton Had To Fight For Buzz To Go Into Spanish Mode In Toy Story 3 [Comic-Con]
The “Toy Story” franchise is known for its Randy Newman theme song, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” but apparently, the Spanish Buzz Lightyear who appears in “Toy Story 3” did not have a friend in everyone as the movie was being made. Lucky for him, he had Andrew Stanton in his corner.As a director,…
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R.L. Stine Never Understood The Love For One Of His Iconic Characters
When action figures came to life in the “Toy Story” franchise, it marked a joyous development. A world where toys love us back? Give or take the occasional teddy bear dictator, those sentient toys were a delight! But harsh reality comes for us all. Eventually, we age out of the G-rated bliss of “Toy Story,” and…
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How A Toy Story Merch Mistake Lost Millions Of Dollars For Disney
If stories of mega media corporations losing out on unfathomable fortunes make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, then you’re gonna love this one. Here is the story of how Disney’s inability to put equal faith into all of their creations coupled with a few big wigs being overly presumptuous about consumer tastes led…
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‘Lightyear’ Is a Box-Office Dud, but It’s Poised to Be the Next Disney+ Hit
Pixar’s first theatrical release since pre-pandemic times was a box-office disappointment: “Lightyear” opened to 50.58 million last weekend in the U.S. and Canada, whiffing on (already low) projections by around 20 million. (It brought in an additional 12.43 million over the last week.) But that doesn’t mean Buzz is destined for the bin of forgotten…
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Lightyear Spoiler Review: A Brand Deposit That Fails To Achieve Lift-Off
Expectations are the damnedest thing. Over nearly thirty years of making computer-animated feature films, Pixar Animation Studios has created a set of expectations that are gradually becoming impossible to overcome. Among its initial films, the studio made such wonderful original stories that seemed impossible to top. In the late-2000s, with a run of films like…
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‘Lightyear’ Opens In Second Place Behind Still-Roaring ‘Jurassic World’ With Soft 51 Million Bow
Well, it didn’t quite reach infinity and beyond. In fact, it didn’t even reach first place—a rarity for a big-budget Pixar tentpole. But despite its disappointing blast-off, Disney’s Lightyear still managed to rack up 51 million during its domestic debut over Father’s Day weekend. Maybe it was the absence of Woody and the rest of…
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Box Office: Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ Underwhelms With 51 Million Debut as ‘Jurassic World’ Stays No. 1
To infinity and beyond? Not exactly…“Lightyear,” a spinoff story set in Pixar’s “Toy Story” universe, fell short of that boundless milestone in its box office debut, collecting a lackluster 51 million from 4,255 North American theaters. Family audiences, the movie’s prime demographic, have been largely absent since Covid. But even so, those ticket sales are…