Category: Pixar
Recipe for Ratatouille — a Culinary Delight?
From asia1.com.sg:
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The story: Inspired by Hamlet-like visitations from his idol, the late master chef Gusteau (Brad Garrett), an epicurean rat named Remy (Patton Oswalt) aspires to be a professional chef and hides out in Gusteau’s five-star Parisian gourmet restaurant.
There, he conjures up delectable meals and bonds with a hapless garbage boy Linguini (Lou Romano, The Incredibles’ production designer), who pretends to be the chef with Remy instructing him behind the scenes.
But Remy’s ambitions are hindered by his family’s scepticism and the bistro’s rodent-despising staff and patrons.
The juice: With the other rat-centric computer-animated flop Flushed Away barely down the drain, Pixar (Cars, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo) and director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) team up again, hoping to turn the tide.
Ratatouille’s box-office performance is regarded as critical, as it’s expected to test the wisdom of Disney’s US$7.4 billion ($11b) purchase of animation giant Pixar.
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Old tricks in new Pixar flick
From canada.com:
TweetPixar’s next extravaganza will skew a little off its usual demographic and feature a main character who is 70 years old. The film powerhouse that brought you Finding Nemo and The Incredibles is set to release Up, which follows a septuagenarian who teams up with a forest ranger to fight villains and beasts, Variety reports.
Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) is set to direct, while Pixar go-to guy Bob Peterson (Finding Nemo) will be penning the script and co-directing.
The announcement fills the nagging gap in the animation giant’s production schedule, having them pumping out projects until at least 2010. After soon-to-be-released Ratatouille, Pixar is set to release Wall-E next summer and the much anticipated Toy Story 3 in summer 2010.
Wall E Plot Spoilers from Jim Hill.
From jimhillmedia.com:
By now, you’ve probably seen pictures of “WALL E” ‘s title character. Maybe you’ve even caught a glimpse of this film’s unique-looking logo.
But what do you actually know about Pixar’s 2008 release? Very little, I’ll bet. Which is standard operating procedure for this Emeryville-based animation studio. They like keeping the storylines for their upcoming animated features under lock & key for as long as possible.
But “WALL E” went over the wall (so to speak) last week. You see, I had the chance to talk with someone associated with this new Andrew Stanton film who just couldn’t contain themselves. They had to talk about “WALL E.”
Why For? Because this individual believes that Stanton’s next movie is important. That it’s going to be such a step up from the work that Andrew did on “Finding Nemo” that “WALL E” is going to shock people. Both for its choice of source material as well as its style of storytelling.
And the story that this animation insider told me … It’s such a departure for Pixar, such a ballsy choice that one wonders how mainstream audiences are actually going to react to “WALL E.” Will they be able to embrace a message movie that so liberally mixes science fiction & satire?
Be warned, folks. If you don’t want to know anything about the story of Pixar’s Summer 2008 release, now would be a really good time to bail out of JHM. For I’m about to give you the skinny on “WALL E.”
If you keep going you’re in for a treat. This movie has gone from looking and sounding OK to being AMAZING.
I can’t wait for this.
TweetPixar options under probe?
looprumors.com reports:
TweetThe Wall Street Journal reports that Steve Jobs, whose company’s stock-options practices are already the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission probe, agreed to a large stock-options grant to executive producer John Lasseter at his Pixar Animation Studios in 2001 as well.
Pixar has since been purchased by Walt Disney, which elected Jobs to its board. Disney declined to answer questions about the options other than to repeat an earlier statement by CEO Bob Iger in which he told investors in November that “we aren’t aware of any basis under which stock options that were issued by Pixar would have a material impact on our financial statements.”
An Apple spokeswoman told The Journal that Jobs was not available for comment.
Toy Story 3 Announced for 2009.
slashfilm.com reports:
Good news and bad news.
The Good News: Disney has announced that Pixar will release Toy Story 3 in 2009. And the Oscar nominated screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine is hard at work on the story.
The Bad News: Toy Story and Pixar mastermind and all-around animation god John Lasseter won’t be directing.Lasseter and Disney Animation president Ed Catmull revealed the news at Thursday’s investor conference.
Lee Unkrich, who has been co-director on Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, and Finding Nemo, will step up to helm the third film in the series. Lasseter is probably too busy in his new post as chief creative officer of Disney Animation to work on the latest effort.
I wonder if they’ll be keeping the same story line of Buzz being “recalled” or if they thought of something else…
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