For those (few) of you who read this blog regularly should know by now that I am an immense fan of the great animator Hayao Miyazaki. And it is always means to celebrate whenever he announces a new film. And for the first time ever, not only has Miyazaki announced his interest in making another film, but a sequel! Read more
Toy Story 3 recently became the highest-grossing animated film in history, and now it can further boast that record by becoming the first animated film in history to make a billion dollars at the worldwide box-office.
Toy Story 3 now currently stands as the sixth highest-grossing film ever (just above The Dark Knight and just under Time Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which it is due to surpass).
Congratulations to Pixar for making such a wonderful, wonderful film and finding such success through it.
May Toy Story 3’s gross reach to infinity, and beyond!
Studio Ghibli’s Tales from Earthsea opens in US theaters this Friday. So why not look up your local theaters and see if it is playing near you?
Again, that’s this Friday, August 13th.
The toys are back in town.
Toy Story 3 is the third installment in the series that made Pixar what it is today, Toy Story. The previous two Toy Storys are amongst my favorite films of all time. Does Toy Story 3 live up to its perfect predecessors? Or does it suffer the curse of the threequels? Read more
Disney has launched the official website for Tales From Earthsea which can be found here.
The website currently only features a (really cool) trailer for the movie, but is sure to add more in the coming weeks.
Tales From Earthsea will be released in theaters August 13th.
Although I had heard information on this a few months back, I hadn’t heard any other official word on it until now. Studio Ghibli’s film, Tales From Earthsea will be making it to American cinemas this August. Read more
Video game and other stuff website IGN has just done (another) list of best animated features ever. Here it is. With added commentary, of course. Read more
Back in 1995, Pixar released the first ever full-length computer animated feature, Toy Story. And in the decade and a half since then, Pixar has released a total of ten feature films that have been heralded worldwide, and they have become the world’s most prominent force of computer-animated features.
After eleven years of waiting, the third installment to one of my all-time favorite film franchises is almost here. Toy Story 3 will be released in one week. I plan on seeing it on opening day. It’s almost hard to believe that after all these years, Toy Story 3 is almost here.
The toys are back in town.
To celebrate, I am working on a “Pixar countdown,” similar to my Disney Renaissance Countdown from a little while back (yes, this is one of those “big posts” I was mentioning before).
Toy Story 3 hits theaters one week from today on June 18th.
No, that's not the Heat Miser.
Ever since the original film’s release in 2001, Shrek has become the poster boy for Dreamworks animated features. The series has seen a sequel hit theaters every three years, with the good-but-not-as-great-as-the-original Shrek 2 in 2004 and the disappointing and mediocre Shrek the Third in 2007. Now we have Shrek Forever After, or as it is now apparently named, The Final Chapter. It is said to be the final film of the Shrek series (not counting the upcoming Puss in Boots spinoff), but where does it fall in the Shrek pantheon? Does it recapture the charm and humor of the first and second entries, or does it fall in the same category as Shrek’s third outing? Read more