Tag: Wall-e
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Ahsoka – Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer, And More Info
Lucasfilm Animation, like so many fledgling studios, took a moment to find its footing. Founded in 2003, the company released its first feature film, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” in 2008 to much scorn. Critics were quick to recognize the film was little more than three TV episodes hastily strung together, and its janky computer…
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10 Worst Movies of 2008, Ranked
A whole 15 years ago, some of the best movies of the 21st century were released. The year was 2008, and it was an overall impressive one for cinema, thanks to blockbusters like the McU-starting Iron Man and the iconic The Dark Knight. There were also animated classics like Wall-e and Kung Fu Panda, and…
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Composer Thomas Newman on Why the Opening Montage of ‘Elemental’ Was the Hardest Section to Score
When composer Thomas Newman was having early conversations about the music of Pixar’s “Elemental,” he looked for a connecting thread between the film’s imaginary world, where elements are characters, and the human world. “I looked for similar issues of otherness and how that could be reflected in music, and how we would identify with that…
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Spellbound: Everything We Know So Far
With the release of Luck, Skydance Studios entered the realm of animation for the first time. This was also the first film produced for Skydance Animations by John Lasseter, a former head at Disney/Pixar Animations. Lasseter was appointed to lead Skydance Animation in 2019, and together with Paramount Animation and Ilion Animation Studios, the company…
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Director Andrew Stanton Returns To Sci-Fi With Searchlight’s Ambitious ‘In The Blink Of An Eye’
You can’t mention director Andrew Stanton’s name without thinking about two things, the Oscar-winning Pixar animated film “Wall-e” and the infamous box office flop “John Carter” which starred Taylor Kitsch. The last movie, which debuted in 2012, seemed to have derailed Stanton’s feature-length film work for years. However, the fallow period appears to be ending.…
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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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![Andrew Stanton Had To Fight For Buzz To Go Into Spanish Mode In Toy Story 3 [Comic-Con]](https://movieposters2.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1733147-b.jpg)
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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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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How Pixar’s Wall-e Paved The Way For Lightyear
“Lightyear” comes out tomorrow, and we’re about to see the movie that the toy Buzz Lightyear is based on. You remember Buzz from the “Toy Story” films, of course — so it’s a movie about a movie in a movie universe that spawned a toy that starred in the movie. So yeah. It looks like…
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![Lightyear Director Angus MacLane And Producer Galyn Susman On Metanarrative And More [Interview]](https://movieposters2.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/671382-b.jpg)
Lightyear Director Angus MacLane And Producer Galyn Susman On Metanarrative And More [Interview]
Director Angus MacLane and producer Galyn Susman have been heavily involved in numerous Pixar projects going back decades. Susman’s first credit as an associate producer came with “Ratatouille” in 2007, and she later produced several Pixar shorts and TV specials. Her first credited feature as a producer was for “Toy Story 4,” and she returns…