Archives for June, 2008
Coming Soon interviews Andrew Stanton
ComingSoon.net has interviewed Andrew Stanton, director of Pixar’s upcoming WALL-E.
Coming Soon: You’ve talked about the Pixar process with “Nemo” in-depth. Did you go through the same process in putting together the story for this?
Andrew Stanton: Yeah. It was very – it’s always ugly and arduous and I try my best every time going into it to try and solve all my problems as early as I can, and it still, it was just very, very tough to get the story just right. I’ve started to learn you don’t have much say about when you’re going to get an idea and which idea it’s going to be that sparks stuff. For WALL-E, for instance, the idea came from the character and then I tried to find a story to put around. So often it’s the other way around, you try to think of a situation or a plot device or some sort of storyline and then you start to try and build up your characters to make them dimensional enough to follow. And this was so so the opposite. I already liked him, I already cared about him, and I didn’t know where this was going to go.
Read the entire interview at ComingSoon.
Interview with author David Price
Listen (below) to an interview with David Price, author of ‘The Pixar Touch‘, about “Pixar’s transformation from failing computer company to Hollywood darling.”
Four new WALL-E posters
New promo video for The Cleveland Show
I still don’t know how I feel about this Family Guy spin-off… I predict the bear family next door will steal the show.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars International Trailer
Check out this brand-new trailer for the upcoming theatrical release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It’s much better than the previous trailer.
The Smurfs movie confirmed
The Smurfs movie is finally official as Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation announced their involvement. The studios will develop a live action/animated movie based on the classic cartoon franchise.
David Stem and David Weiss are in negotiations to write the screenplay. They previously wrote Shrek 2 and 3, The Rugrats Movie and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Running as part of NBC’s Saturday-morning lineup from 1981-1990, the cartoon was a huge success, winning two Daytime Emmy Awards and running for 256 episodes.
Watch an entire WALL-E scene
WALL-E and the Fire Hydrant
MyToons launches HD Animation
MyToons.com today announced the launch of HD Animation; a first for any online animation site. Animators and animation fans around the world can now experience both independent and studio animations in high definition – precisely as the creators intended them to be viewed – at MyToons.com.
In addition, MyToons’ new system allows users to embed and share HD animations at full resolution both on the MyToons site itself and on other pages throughout the Internet. Viewers can easily toggle from standard definition to high definition, as well as view animations full-screen.
Kung Fu Panda No. 1 at box office
DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black as Po the panda, has debuted as the number one movie, pulling in $60 million in ticket sales. This was more than enough to beat Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, which pulled in a respectable $40 million in ticket sales.
The top 12 films took in $172.4 million, up 32 percent from the same weekend last year.
Via MyWay
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