Jeff Altman works with film and video for a living so when he found a 16mm movie of vintage footage from Walt Disney World in his grandparent’s house, he knew just what to do — restore it. The movie features scenes from the late 1970s… Read More »Newly restored vintage Walt Disney World footage is next best thing to a time machine.
Can you imagine the movie “Up” without Ellie and Carl? How about Boo making an appearance in Monsters Inc 2? It almost happened. Like every movie studio, there are many more ideas for films than production capacity can actually handle and a lot of ideas… Read More »Scrapped Pixar movie ideas
Falling short at the box office of only “The Force Awakens,” the latest entry in the Star Wars franchise managed to pull in a very strong $450 million in worldwide box office. The domestic portion of that was a very strong $220 million. Awakens only… Read More »Star Wars: The Last Jedi has second largest opening ever
The weekend before “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is destined to rule everything for the foreseeable future, Pixar’s “Coco” spent its third week atop the box office charts. The animated tale brought in $73.6 Million around the globe with $18.3M of that domestically. In the… Read More »Pixar’s ‘Coco’ works its magic at box office for third week
Four other studios have teamed up with Walt Disney Studios to launch Movies Anywhere digital movie locker. Built on the idea of the Disney Movies Anywhere app, this free app allows consumers to manage and watch their personal digital movie collections across all participating studios,… Read More »Disney and four other studios launch Movies Anywhere app
I share this with you mostly because I’m happy to see that James Cameron is still interest in “Pandora – The World of Avatar” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom at least as far as using it to promote his upcoming four sequel movies. For the new… Read More »Young cast of new Avatar movies visits Pandora – The World of Avatar for role immersion
A new video from the fun folks up in Emeryville finds some of the rarest, most obscure Easter Eggs hidden throughout their movies. Easter eggs started as a game animators played to pay tribute to other films they had worked on. Pixar Animation Studios takes… Read More »Pixar Easter Eggs – deep dive secrets
A significant part of Pixar’s formula can be attributed to the smart use of color to set tone and emotion. A new book “The Color of Pixar” provides a new perspective on the studios’ art. The beautiful tome “The Color of Pixar” by Tia Kratter… Read More »New “The Color of Pixar” book will paint your imagination