Showing posts with label Pixar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pixar. Show all posts

Saturday, August 2, 2008

What's UP with Disney and Pixar?

Disney and Pixar are up to their usual unconventional ideas and story crafting with their new 3D movie, UP. The title is very general and hardly gives us a clue to what the story about. But the trailer - which shows a cabin and an old codger hoisted up into the air by balloons coming out of the chimney - says it all. Though not much to go on, the idea of a house that takes to the air with carnival balloons already gives a lot of possibilities for fun and adventure.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Ratatouille's Bird Talks About Rats

Writer-director Brad Bird of the movie Ratatouille talked to Entertainment Weekly about why he gave a shot to this movie about a rat who can cook and a cook who can't. "When Jan Pinkava pitched the idea of a rat who wants to cook, everyone at Pixar immediately recognized it as having a sort of huge [dramatic] tension. Because a rat is death to a kitchen. I mean, they'll close a restaurant that has a rat in it. And a kitchen is death to a rat. So a rat that wants to move into that world? It's the most impossible goal any creature could have. Everybody was very entertained by that."

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Join Wall-E in His Quest for Purpose and Meaning

From award-winning director Andrew Stanton, who brought to us Finding Nemo, now comes another tale from Disney and Pixar of an endearing character on a quest. Meet Wall-E, a robot trash compactor who lives in the future. Join him as he goes on a serendipitous journey across the galaxy to find true meaning in his life.

Take Wall-E home with you! He could use your company. Order now!

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