Pixar Articles

Apple honcho Steve Jobs died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 56. While Apple was credited for revolutionizing personal computers and mobile devices, Jobs — and/or his subordinates — had a hand in the development of technology used in the Pixar movies. He is thanked in the credits of several of those, including Wall-E, Up, and Toy Story 3. Jobs was also [...]

Katy Perry, Smurfette's voice, in The Smurfs Box Office: Katie Holmes-Guy Pearce's DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Plummets, Julianne Moore-Steve Carell-Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling's CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE Up Raja Gosnell's The Smurfs topped the international box-office for the fourth consecutive weekend. Not surprisingly, The Smurfs is performing much better abroad than in North America: cume of $295.8m vs. $131.9m to date. Without the foreign market, [...]

Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher If early, rough estimates found at Deadline.com are correct, Cars 2 is performing way — but way — above expectations. As per those early Friday estimates, the latest Disney/Pixar animated movie — and the first one to take some serious critical drubbing — grossed $28m at 4,115 locations and is expected to reach from $68m (as per Disney) to $75m (as [...]

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders' How to Train Your Dragon A commenter took me to task for stating in a post written last night that the "marriage" between the International Animated Film Association and DreamWorks had become "unofficially official" this year with How to Train Your Dragon's ten Annie Award wins, including Best Animated Feature. (Pixar's Toy Story 3, up for three Annies, and Disney's [...]