The Walt Disney Company continues to march ahead with its promotional campaign to win the Best Picture Academy Award for Pixar’s Toy Story 3. It’s not a question of which film is the best reviewed, Toy Story 3 wins that, the question is will members… Read More »Does Toy Story 3 Have A Chance at Best Picture Oscar
After the recent despicable actions of Unite Here Local 11 at the Disneyland resort, I had resolved not to comment on their campaign for improved working conditions and better health care coverage for their members. But their current campaign is much more powerful and, if… Read More »Could Union Protests derail Toy Story 3 Oscar Run?
Think back to the days when there was a real possibility that Pixar would leave the Disney family due to bad feelings created when executives at Disney attempted to push the boys from Emeryville around. It was pretty touch and go there for awhile, but… Read More »Toy Story 3 – Disney’s Circle Seven Version
Toy Story 3 Director Lee Unkrich and Writer Michael Arndt were interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. In the transcript they give some amazing advice on what it means to be creative. Lee also explains how the idea for the story behind Pixar’s third… Read More »Pixar’s Lee Unkrich on Fresh Air – Transcript
Editor: Please welcome back guest author Daniel Wanderman This morning I had a very unique opportunity at peeking behind the curtain, into the minds of a couple of Pixar’s finest: Toy Story 3 Director Lee Unkrich and Producer Darla K. Anderson. These two were engaged… Read More »Pixar’s Top Creative Minds Enlighten the Hamptons
Color Bob Iger very happy. Two weeks after becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time, Disney•Pixar’s Toy Story 3 will cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office today, joining Alice in Wonderland as the second $1 billion film this year from… Read More »Toy Story 3 passes $1 Billion, Giving Disney Two Billion Dollar Movies in ’10
For a few days Toy Story 3 enjoyed a perfect rating on Rotten Tomatoes and then one critic comes along who seemingly writes a bad review just to knock the popular film off its perch. That has happened time and again with Pixar and other… Read More »Toy Story 3 at Center of Critics Debate
A video interview with Pixar’s Stereoscopic supervisor Bob Whitehill has some great insights as to how Toy Story 3 was finished in 3D. He also lets slip the fact that Pixar’s working on a 3D version of Ratatouille, which will presumably return to theaters sometime… Read More »Ratatouille in 3D