Category: Disney, Pixar, Travel
From samsclub.com:
Once-in-a-Lifetime Package Disney/Pixar Animation Lover’s Dream Vacation Behind The Scenes Access Pass
This Once-in-a-Lifetime Package takes you inside the world’s premier animation studios for an up close look at the process and techniques that have made Disney/Pixar the leader in family films for generations. WALL•E, the newest feature from Disney/Pixar, features a robot and his incredible outer space adventure. Your adventure takes you to Emeryville, Calif., home of Pixar, where you will be a guest at a private screening of A Pixar Story and be treated to other exciting behind-the-scenes explorations. This earthbound trip will also take you to the famed Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, Calif., where you will walk the hallowed grounds of the beautiful 51-acre studio lot, be given a VIP tour and more! Enjoy the movie PREMIERE celebration on a June weekend in California with appearances by the filmmakers and other VIPs.
$14,700
One 4-Person Package Available
This Once-in-a-Lifetime Sam¹s Club® package can be purchased at samsclub.com.
Available for purchase on April 9, 2008, after 10 pm CDT.
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Posted by Ricky on April 8, 2008 at 10:55 am · Permalink
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From wsj.com:
In Pixar’s coming movie “Toy Story 3,” Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on February 19, 2008 at 10:17 am · Permalink
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From cbc.ca:
The story of an upwardly mobile Parisian rat with a gourmet appetite ate up 10 Annie Awards, which honour the years top achievements in film and television animation.
The Disney and Pixar rodent tale Ratatouille, about a French rat who ends up running a gourmet restaurant, captured trophies for top animated feature, writing and directing for Brad Bird, voice acting for Ian Holm, character design and animation, music, storyboarding, production design and animated video game.
Ratatouille, the story of a rat that loves to cook, beat out the likes of Bee Movie, Surfs Up, Persepolis and The Simpsons Movie to nab 10 Annie Awards.Ratatouille, the story of a rat that loves to cook, beat out the likes of Bee Movie, Surfs Up, Persepolis and The Simpsons Movie to nab 10 Annie Awards.
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The film headed into the competition with the most nominations, 13 in all, at the gala in Los Angeles on Friday night.
It beat out main competitors Bee Movie, Surfs Up, Persepolis and The Simpsons Movie.
The Annie Awards are presented by the International Animated Film Society. The winner of the best-picture prize has gone on to win the Academy Award for animated feature every year since it was added as an Oscar category in 2001, with one exception. Last years Annie winner, the auto-racing comedy Cars, lost at the Oscars to the penguin musical Happy Feet.
Ratatouille will be battling it out on Oscar night with Persepolis and Surfs Up.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on February 12, 2008 at 11:21 am · Permalink
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From darkhorizons.com:
Upcoming Pixar reports that the upcoming 2009 Pixar animated film “Up” looks to be based on one of history’s most famous stories - “Don Quixote”.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s classic novel follows a man who has read so many stories that he becomes convinced he is a knight and sets off, along with his earthy squire Sancho Panza, in search of adventure. They begin with his attack on windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants.
For almost six decades the Walt Disney Company has been trying to turn Don Quixote into an animated feature film, but without success due to the almost episodic nature of the story.
“Monsters, Inc.” director Pete Docter helms the project which will get a release on June 12th 2009.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on December 27, 2007 at 4:13 pm · Permalink
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From yahoo.com:
Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.
The singer died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles hospital while awaiting a lung transplant, said Goulet spokesman Norm Johnson.
He had been awaiting a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being found last month to have a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis.
Goulet had remained in good spirits even as he waited for the transplant, said Vera Goulet, his wife of 25 years.
“Just watch my vocal cords,” she said he told doctors before they inserted a breathing tube.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 31, 2007 at 1:02 am · Permalink
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From slashfilm.com:
At Comic Con this year, WALL-E director Andrew Stanton confirmed that there would in fact be a live action element in the upcoming Pixar film.
“We’re not doing anything like Happy Feet,” said Stanton. “There is a live action element involved but that’s the most I can say.”
And that is a good thing because I thought the live-action integration in Happy Feet was very off putting. Last month actor Jeff Garlin added that he is the “only animated character that speaks” in the film. Garlin plays the Captain of a starliner ship, which most of humanity now couch potatoes call home.
“A lot of the film is silent and they’re robots so they make noises and such and there’s sound but I’m one of the only characters that speak – not one of them – I am the only animated character that speaks,” Garlin said. “There’s another character but I can’t talk about it. But I’m the only animated character that speaks.”
The film follows a small Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class robot or WALL-E for short’s fantastic journey across a universe of never-before-imagined visions of the future. We’ve wondered for a while now who this other character was and if he was the live action element of WALL-E.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 30, 2007 at 2:54 pm · Permalink
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Category: Misc, Pixar
From sptimes.com:
John Russell dislikes Florida’s current Democratic Party leaders. And lucky for him, he’s not a fan of Mickey Mouse, either.
After a confrontation with party officials Saturday during the state convention in Orlando, the former Democratic nominee in the 5th Congressional District was banned from ever returning to any Disney-owned properties.
“I don’t care,” Russell of Dade City said Monday about his punishment. “I hate Disney. I hate getting around there. The whole experience is unpleasant for me.”
The scuffle - captured on video and posted Sunday on the Internet - shows convention organizer Mitch Kates confronting Russell for allegedly trying to display signs touting John Edwards for president on a table paid for by a vendor.
“John, this is private property. You can’t be here,” Kates says on the video.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 30, 2007 at 10:26 am · Permalink
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From telegraph.co.uk:
Rats have never been so popular. Pet stores say they have been inundated with requests for the rodents after the success of the Disney film Ratatouille.
The animation, which features a loveable French rat with a passion for cooking, has turned the rat from a hated pest to the most popular pet of the year. Pets at Home said sales of rats in the half-term holiday soared by 50 per cent in its stores.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 29, 2007 at 12:39 pm · Permalink
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Category: Pixar
uk.reuters.com
The “overnight” success of Pixar Animation Studios seemed like a smooth rocket ride, but Leslie Iwerks’ documentary about the cartoon behemoth is a jolting reminder that it was a risky business venture.An unstable combination of sheer determination, unending struggle, initial failures and gut instinct, it took an almost karmic combination of talent and fortuitous events to get that baby off the ground. Many people participated, but “The Pixar Story” rightly zeroes in on John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and their entrepreneurial godfather and backer, Steve Jobs, who all but willed the Pixar success into reality. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on October 15, 2007 at 8:23 am · Permalink
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From darkhorizons.com:
The Pixar team has confirmed to EBZine that they recently made a trip to Edgar Rice Burroughs archives, doing research for a trilogy of John Carter of Mars films.
Directors Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Pixar executive Jim Morris all attended and confirmed the first John Carter film, which will be part live-action, would hit theaters before 2012.
The movie will follow Civil War vet John Carter, who is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians.
Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.
At present the studio has “Wall-E” in 2008, “Up” in 2009, “Toy Story 3″ in 2010, and “1906″ or the first ‘Carter’ film for 2011.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 8, 2007 at 5:46 pm · Permalink
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