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…
Parasite and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 were expected to be respectable also-rans when it was time to hand out the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Animated Feature Film, respectively, but instead but they ran off with the trophies in surprise upsets.
Parasite‘s Best Picture win was a stunner that puts the 92nd Academy…
Disney and Pixar’sToy Story 4 won the Oscar on Sunday for Best Animated Feature, upsetting the field including Laika’s Missing Link and Netflix’s Klaus that had been taking precursor awards most of the season.
It’s hard to call the victory an upset when it comes to Pixar and its flagship franchise — Toy Story…
The first-time feature director behind Toy Story 4, Josh Cooley faced a particular kind of challenge when Don Rickles passed away in the middle of production, in April of 2017.
Voicing Mr. Potato Head throughout the franchise, which kicked off in 1995, the legendary actor and stand-up comedian did initially sign on to…
This year at the Oscars, three first-time directors are in the running for Best Animated Feature—Toy Story 4's Josh Cooley, Klaushelmer Sergio Pablos and I Lost My Body's Jérémy Clapin.
From the perspective of each director, this morning's results demonstrate what an exciting time it is to be in animation. "It’s a…
EXCLUSIVE: It’s not easy to tell an engaging story. It’s even harder when you have to bring a long-running tale that’s familiar and beloved by the world to a fitting conclusion.
That was the formidable task faced by screenwriters Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom when they set out to tackle the script for Pixar’s Toy…
It's hard to believe, but the Toy Story franchise turns 25 in 2020. In that time, the original CG animation hit has only generated a modest three sequels. Luckily, in this instance less means more: the fourth outing for Woody, Buzz and company has been a hit with critics and audiences, rating over 90% fresh for both…
In the innovative Netflixanimated filmI Lost My Body, a severed hand skitters across the streets of Paris trying to reunite with its missing anatomical companion. Whether that hand winds up grasping an Oscar is up to Academy voters, in a year when a record 32 contenders qualified for the Best Animated Feature race.
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Annie Potts has been voicing Bo Peep in the Toy Story franchise since its first incarnation in 1995. Back then, Potts' character was far from front and center though, as she mostly aided the exploits of Tom Hanks' Woody from the background. But in this year's Toy Story 4, Potts enjoys a much-deserved major role. This…
Frozen 2 and its cumulative $919.7M in global snow dust, have helped bring Disney to the $10B threshold worldwide for 2019. Officially, the studio will cross the mark within the next day. Current studio cumes stand at $3.28B domestic and $6.717B from the international box office. That’s $9.997B global through today…
Filmmakers faced a unique challenge in the newest entries in two of Disney's most popular animated family franchises: bring an updated sense of freshness to beloved stories and characters in Toy Story 4and Frozen II. Their efforts to explore fresh territory anchored presentations for both films at Deadline’s…
Disney’s uber-successful franchises are the ones to look out for at the 47th annual Annie Awards with Frozen 2and Toy Story 4earning eight and six nominations respectively. Laika’s stop-motion animated feature Missing Linknabbed eight nods, matching the aforementioned icy animated sequel, while DreamWorks Animation…
