Cool Stuff: A Look at Pixar and LucasFilm’s Renderfarms

Have you ever wondered how many computers it takes for Pixar to render their big screen 3d animated films or ILM to render giant transforming robotic aliens? I understand this area of filmmaking might not be interesting to everyone, but I find it fa

What's On Tonight: Rudolph, The Middle, Ghost Hunters, Lawman

At 7, ABC Family has Pixar Short Films (repeated at 9).At 8, CBS has Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, followed by The Grammy Nominations Concert Live.NBC has Christmas in Rockefeller Center at 8.FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8, then a ne

Up For Best Picture and a Look Back at Steve Jobs’ 1997 Goal to Establish Pixar as the Third Brand in Movies

Disney purchased the front cover of the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety to push Pixar's computer animated film Up for Award season (thanks to Awards Daily for the scan). The advertisement FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION section pushes the feature for not on

Lee Unkrich Announces Kristen Schaal and Blake Clark Cast in Toy Story 3; Toy Story 3D Double Feature To Stay in Theaters

(Above: A sliver of one more Toy Story 3 character poster, this one from over at MSNBC) The Toy Story 3 media blitz continues! More and more, it seems that filmmakers are taking to Twitter to make major announcements, or just to share some cool stuff

Toy Story 3 Character Poster Roundup, And How An Unused Ending For Toy Story Ended Up In This Sequel

Last week, we premiered one of the character posters for Toy Story 3. I wanted to quickly round up all the others that appeared on sites around the web. (We also had the leaked TS3 trailer on Friday, and the 'real' version goes live today at noon, so

Exclusive: Toy Story 3 Hamm Character Poster

Disney will release the movie trailer for Pixar's Toy Story 3 online on Monday October 12th 9:00am pacific time, and to celebrate they are releasing a series of new character banners. Disney has given /Film an exclusive look at the character banner f

Awesome New Trailer-Clip Combo For The Toy Story 3D Double Bill

Having seen the newly dimensionalised Toy Story myself I simply have to tell you to go out this weekend and check it out. If you're in the UK, like me, you'll only have the first film available to you; those of you in the US will have a double bill o

Fantastic Fest Review: Toy Story 3D Double Feature

Disney presented a sneak preview of Pixar's Toy Story / Toy Story 2 3D double feature at Fantastic Fest, which offered me a pleasant break from all the indie genre films on the schedule. I'm sure most, if not all, of you have already seen these anima

Disney/Pixar's John Lasseter Talks 'Rapunzel' Casting, 'Toy Story 3' Plot, 'Cars 2', 'Winnie the Pooh' and More!

Spoiler alert: The Marvel / Pixar Ant-Man rumors flying around are purely that ... rumor. That's according to John Lasseter, who headlined an enormous Disney Animation / Pixar presentation this morning. We spoke with him at a press conference afterwa

Edgar Wright Squishes Pixar Ant-Man Rumors

Sometimes movie stories are just too good to be true. A few days ago, Scott Weinberg brought us the delicious rumor that Edgar Wright's Ant-Man could be the first product to come of Pixar and Marvel having sweet access to each other. Unfortunately, i

Disney Pixar Add Cast to Rapunzel, Bear & the Bow and Toy Story 3, Reveal Plot of Cars 2 and Winnie the Pooh

An official announcement about the casting of Disney's Rapunzel has been somewhat overshadowed by a spectacular Toy Story 3 reveal. We'll do those in escalating order of genius, and then round up a whole heap of other Disney Pixar tidbits from their

Disney's D23 Exposes 'The Princess and The Frog', Barely Mentions Marvel

Disney launched their inaugural D23 (D for Disney, 23 for 1923 ... when the studio started) fan expo today in Anaheim, and the opening remarks from Bob Iger covered all of the facets the company is involved in, ranging from movies to music to ... hom

'Toy Story 3' and 'Cars 2' Plots Revealed

Even though it's TIFF time and seemingly the entire movie world is descending on my home town of Toronto, remember, the Great White North isn't your only source of movie news. During the London-based Disney Animation Showcase, Pixar's John Lasseter d