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MTV has some new info on Pixar’s 2010 movie Toy Story 3, the last in the series.
John Ratzenberger, voice of Hamm the Piggy Bank says: “Hammy is a villain in the beginning of the movie, [but then] Hammy becomes a superhero. You’ll see.”
Another character who will play a larger role in Toy Story 3 is Mrs. Potato Head. “[It’s] wonderful!†said Estelle Harris, who voices the character. “I have a much bigger part. ‘Toy Story 2’ was my entrance, and I was a newlywed. But now, I’m still very much in love with Mr. Potato Head.â€
Estelle Harris continued: “You know the wonderful thing about Disney/Pixar movies I think is they believe in this above all, to thine own self be true. And they are.”
THQ announced today that the WALL-E video game has shipped into retail outlets throughout North America for Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS, Games for Windows, Mac and mobile phones.
WALL-E is rated E for everyone and is now available for the suggested retail prices of $49.99 (Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3), $39.99 (PlayStation 2), $29.99 (PSP, Nintendo DS) and $19.99 (Games for Windows, Mac).
Players take control of WALL-E and EVE as they relive some of the movie’s thrilling moments throughout more than nine massive environments.
Pixar’s WALL-E is leading a campaign by NASA and Walt Disney Studios to promote interest among schoolchildren in science and technology.
NASA and Disney have signed a Space Act Agreement for a series of educational and public outreach activities related to Pixar’s new movie, WALL-E, opening in theaters nationwide on June 27.
Disney has designed a :30 PSA featuring WALL-E for NASA’s television channels and Web site. The video is designed to draw students to NASA’s Web site to explore the agency’s missions. The WALL-E character also will be featured on NASA’s Kids’ Club page. In addition, Disney has designed a “movie surfer vignette” about WALL-E that touches on science and technology that drives NASA’s programs, which began airing on the Disney Channel in June.
Starting June 27 and running through August 27, the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood will host a special NASA space exploration display, including imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope, which can be enjoyed by all guests coming to see WALL-E there.
Check out this preview for Pixar’s short film, Presto. It will premiere in theaters before WALL-E.
The American Film Institute (AFI) has named its Top 10 Films in various genres, including animation. Here is AFI’s Top 10 Animated Films list:
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. The Lion King
5. Fantasia
6. Toy Story
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Shrek
9. Cinderella
10. Finding Nemo
To check out more info about each film, along with videos of celebrities discussing each film, head on over to AFI.
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.
Listen (below) to an interview with David Price, author of ‘The Pixar Touch‘, about “Pixar’s transformation from failing computer company to Hollywood darling.”