Disney offered lots of details about the upcoming Disney+ streaming service during its Investors Day on Thursday. It also unveiled its full programming slate including premiere dates, of some which are estimates. Read the entire list below, or it can be viewed in PDF form here.
Disney also released a demo video that…
When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…
Leave it to Disney to have the last word in the Super Bowl. Right when the Patriots defeated the Rams in what could probably be the blandest Super Bowl, a new sneak peek at Toy Story 4 came in to add some fun and excitement to the mix.
The short, yet enjoyable Super Bowl spot has Woody (Tom Hanks) and Bo Peep (Annie…
Netflix has inked another of its multiyear overall deals, this time with Darla K. Anderson, the Oscar-winning longtime Pixar producer whose credits at the Disney animation giant include Coco, Toy Story 3 and Cars. Under the new deal, Anderson will develop and produce new animated and live-action projects, both feature…
Lee Unkrich, one of the centerpiece creatives at the heart of Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios since its first movie Toy Story, said Friday he is leaving the company after 25 years. The director won two Oscars during his run, for helming Coco(last year) and 2010’s Toy Story 3. He also co-directed Pixar smashes Toy Sto…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Three town halls were held yesterday at Skydance Media regarding the studio’s hiring of former Walt Disney Animation/Pixar boss John Lasseter, and we understand from sources that CEO David Ellison made it clear to staff that if there’s any missteps with the former executive, who was accused of sexual…
Pixar co-founder and former Disney animation guru John Lasseter has been hired to run Skydance Animation. Skydance CEO David Ellison made the announcement via memo (read it in full below) about the move, which comes after Disney decided to part ways with the award-winning animation exec last year after putting him…
Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a hit film hailed as a game-changing meld of CG technology with a retro, hand-drawn spirit, won the Golden Globe tonight as the top animated feature film of 2018.
Accepting the award, Spider-Verse producer and co-writer Phil Lord praised the “800 filmmakers around the world”…
In the competitive world of feature animation, it takes more than an entertaining yarn and a bit of slapstick comedy to cut through the noise. To make an impact at the box office in 2018—and at the Oscars, heading now into its 91st go-round—filmmakers are called upon to pursue a new standard of excellence, going back…
Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer have been set to lead the voice cast of Onward, the next film in the works at Pixar Animation Studios. Dan Scanlon (Monsters University) is directing the pic, which is set to hit theaters on March 6, 2020.
Disney said today the plot centers on two…
The 20th helmer to take on a Pixar short since the mid-1980s, and the the first woman to do so, Bao‘s Domee Shi is now on the path to making her feature debut, with the backing of one of the most impactful animation studios in the world. “We’re just developing the story for it right now,” Shi says. “It’s super early…
Toy Story 4Â features an intriguing newcomer to the toy box : Keanu Reeves. That according to franchise co-star Tim Allen, who shared the tidbit Wednesday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Allen, who plays the gung-ho space ranger Buzz Lightyear, was cryptic about the character Reeves plays but he hinted that…
