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You Need To See This Inspirational Letter A Pixar Filmmaker Wrote To Middle...
Pixar keeps finding new ways to tug at heartstrings. A letter just popped up online written by Pixar filmmaker Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc.," "Up") in which he encourages middle schoolers not to give...
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Pixar Uses This Trick With Its Employees To Boost Creativity
At Pixar, they give general direction in an upbeat manner to boost employee creativity. They aren't overly specific. By giving feedback this way it allows the person to engage their skills to render...
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Sorry Sony, Fox Nabs The Rights To DreamWorks
Things just got a little dicier for Paramount. After a disappointing first half of the year, the studio just lost the source of its only hit movie, "Madagascar 3." DreamWorks Animation is moving from...
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DreamWorks Announces New Slate Of Films To Compete With Pixar
Troll dolls, Rihanna as a bratty teenage alien, and plenty of "How to Train Your Dragon" sequels.DreamWorks is attempting to pull out all the stops to compete with its main animated competition....
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Disney Will Reveal The Answer For Its Troubled Interactive Segment
To Infinity ... and beyond?We think that's what's on Disney's mind.We've been wondering for a while whether or not Disney Infinity – the company's rumored upcoming expected video game changer – was...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: Pixar's Brilliant 'Monsters University' College Recruitment...
Pixar released a trailer for "Monsters University" during last week's Rose Bowl telecast. The preview is incredibly clever — the first half of it is exactly like the college recruitment ads that...
View ArticleHere's What Pixar's Next Animated Short Will Look Like
The Wall Street Journal just debuted a clip of Pixar's next animated short, "The Blue Umbrella."As imagined it's about two umbrellas ... falling in love. Though Pixar always impresses with its shorts,...
View ArticleHere's 34 Seconds Of Pixar Magic To Start Your Morning (DIS)
This is a half-minute clip from a Pixar short coming out in June, called "The Blue Umbrella."As one YouTube commenter says: "34 seconds and still a better love story than Twilight."Please follow SAI on...
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Pixar's Marketing For 'Monsters University' Is Very Impressive
When it comes to animation, no one comes close to Pixar. When it comes to marketing, real life movies rule. But Pixar surprised us with their promotion of this year's upcoming film "Monsters...
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Bob Iger: Steve Jobs Used To Call Me And Tell Me My Movies 'Sucked' (DIS)
Steve Jobs was kind of a jerk. But in an endearing way.From BloombergBusinessWeek's big story on Disney buying Star Wars, there is this nugget on Jobs relationship with Disney and CEO Bob Iger after...
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22 Storytelling Tips For Writers From A Pixar Storyboard Artist
There's no question Pixar dominates the Best Animated Feature at the Oscars.Year after year, the animation studio churns out award season gold (save perhaps "Cars 2").One of the biggest questions is...
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'Monsters' Scare Off 'World War Z' Zombies — Here's Your Box-Office Roundup
Both "Monsters University" and "World War Z" did extremely well at the box office this weekend, but it was Pixar's prequel that edged out Brad Pitt's zombiefest. Disney's "Monsters Inc." prequel had...
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Here Are All The Easter Eggs In 'Monsters University'
Disney and Pixar's big prequel to 2001's "Monsters Inc." came out last weekend. "Monsters University" had a great opening weekend debuting to $82 million. While most were excited to see the duo of Mike...
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The Real Life Buildings That Helped Inspire The Monsters University Campus
Monsters University has dominated the box office since its release two weeks ago and part of its success may be due to the extraordinary effort the Pixar animation team put in to make the movie as...
View ArticleHere's An Awesome Story About Steve Jobs Telling An Employee He's Going To...
Here's an incredible, though a tad apocryphal, story about Steve Jobs. On Q&A site Quora, a former NeXT employee tells a tale of Jobs coming into the break room and declaring that he's going to...
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A Documentary About Killer Whales Made Pixar Change The 'Finding Nemo' Sequel
"Blackfish," a documentary examining the traumatic effects of keeping killer whales in captivity, was made to effect social change and awareness when it comes to the conditions in theme parks like...
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A Scientifically-Accurate 'Finding Nemo' Would Have Been Terrifying
The beloved Disney movie "Finding Nemo" got one not-so-minor detail about clownfish completely wrong.If the good folks at Disney had gotten the science right, it would have made for a very different...
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2014 Is The First Time In 9 Years There Won't Be A New Pixar Movie
NEW YORK (AP) — Walt Disney Pictures has pushed the release date of the Pixar film "The Good Dinosaur" to November 2015, leaving the Pixar cupboard bare for next year.The 3-D film had been planned to...
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The Simplified, Amazing Theory For How All Pixar Movies Fit Into One Universe
Back in July, Jon Negroni went down an animated wormhole with his Grand Unified Theory of Pixar, an absurdly close reading of the studio’s canon that weaves together each of its 14 feature films to...
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Here's What It's Like To Be Inside A Pixar Story Meeting
Pixar's animated films are known for being box-office hits. They range from "Finding Nemo,""Up," and most recently "Monsters University." Ever wonder how one of their coveted movies comes to life?...
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