The Crazy Origins of Pinocchio

“Pinocchio” started its life as an 100-some paged 1883 Italian novella by Carlo Collodi. Walt Disney was introduced to the story by one of his staff during production on “Snow White,” and he loved it so much he made it his next film.

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Oil Company renames itself Pixar

After reading a strange press release found by Big Screen Animation blog , I had to double-check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t already April Fools day. A Canadian oil company has renamed itself after Pixar Animation Studios, perhaps in hopes of capitalizing on the success and goodwill of the popular brand and white-washing its own dirty industry image

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Oil Company renames itself Pixar

Oil Company renames itself Pixar

After reading a strange press release found by Big Screen Animation blog , I had to double-check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t already April Fools day. A Canadian oil company has renamed itself after Pixar Animation Studios, perhaps in hopes of capitalizing on the success and goodwill of the popular brand and white-washing its own dirty industry image

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Tangled Q & A Meet the Directors

Disney’s Tangled will be released on Disney Blu-ray & DVD March 29th. Make sure you check out our contest for a chance to win a copy, or pre-order it on Amazon . As part of the promotional tour for the DVD, I had a chance to sit in on a virtual roundtable with Tangled’s directors Nathan Greno & Bryan Howard.

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No Ordinary Family 1-15: No Ordinary Powell

Okay, so you know how I’ve been complaining about how this show isn’t really moving forward, how they take baby steps forward and then ignore them the next week? Well, that definitely changed tonight. Holy cow was that a great episode! We do start with one of my least favorite storytelling techniques

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Toy Story inspires Hooliganism in the UK

This is not the first time some little kid has watched Toy Story and been inspired to crawl in the out door of one of those Crane toy-grabbing prize machines. But it might be the first time it happened with twins. Apparently 2-year old Jake and his brother had watched Toy Story the night before their big trip to Jitterbugs Party World

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Does Toy Story 3 Have A Chance at Best Picture Oscar

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 of the academy ever give best picture to an animated film.

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Toy Story 3 Blu-Ray DVD Details Announced

The most successful animated box office of all time belongs to Pixar’s Toy Story 3. Disney has just released the details for three ways to enjoy the movie that’s coming out on DVD November 2, 2010

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Toy Story 3 passes $1 Billion, Giving Disney Two Billion Dollar Movies in ’10

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 The Walt Disney Studios – the first studio in history to accomplish this feat. This is yet another reason the Disney purchase of Pixar was a steal

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Interesting Toy Story Midway Mania Rumor

There have been more than a small number of complaints that the Disney’s Hollywood Studios attraction Toy Story Midway Mania went down for maintenance right in the middle of summer. Not just that, but with Toy Story 3 still raking in big bucks at the box office, you would expect the attraction to be open for guests to experience a little of that synergy Disney is so famous for. So there must be a very good reason for it to be down right now

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