If you’re one of those folks who have been waiting for Pixar Animation Studios to stumble and release even a mediocre film, much less a bad one, it looks like you’re going to have to wait a good deal longer. WALL•E, the studios’ most recent full-length, CG-animated film looks, by virtually every metric, to be a certifiable success.
Recently, the stars came out on one of the hottest nights of the year to help celebrate the arrival of the newest star in the Disney/Pixar firmament: a lovable 700-year-old trash compacting robot known as WALL•E. With your host C. W. Oberleitner.
As the Mouse cranks up the hype machine to promote the big summer release of the latest Pixar Animation instant classic, WALL•E, we’re beginning to wonder if anybody in the PR department has actually watched the movie. Certainly that’s one of the questions a disconcerted media recently put to the film’s writer and director Andrew Stanton, again and again.
Want to kill a summer evening or two? Walt Disney Home Entertainment offers a passable way to while away some hours with the 45th Anniversary Special Edition DVD release of the studio’s 1963 full-length feature, animated film The Sword in the Stone.
Before he starts his new job at Disney.com, WALL•E had a coming out party of sorts. He was the center of attention at the world premiere of his new Pixar animated film, WALL•E.
Soon the waiting will be over and Pixar’s newest star WALL•E will make his big screen debut on Friday, June 27. Before then, the plucky little robot with a misplaced sense of purpose will have a new job. WALL•E and EVE are about to change the way you see Disney.com, and we have an online first look for you.
Father’s Day was also a day for some of the most famous names in Disney Imagineering—Alice Davis, George McGinnis, X Atencio, Blaine Gibson, and Bob Gurr—to meet their fans and sign autographs. Additionally, the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society and the staff of Walt Disney’s Carolwood Barn honored Gibson with his own engraved title on the walk at Ollie Johnston’s depot.
In response to our June 13 story about Walt Disney Imagineering outsourcing the manufacturing of Audio Animatronic Characters, we heard from a member of WDI’s Manufacturing and Prototype Operations Tujunga facility in North Hollywood. He also forwarded a copy of Bruce Vaughn’s original memo.
Ouch! Less than 24 hours after an internal Walt Disney Imagineering memo, with news of a strategic shift in focus for manufacturing operations was sent to employees, copies of the document leaked out and began popping up around Southern California.
Kung Fu Panda brought home the dumplings to DreamWorks Animation last weekend by proving itself to be a hit with audiences of all ages, and WALL•E looks to be set to run the table in a little over two weeks as grownups around the web eagerly talk up Disney/Pixar’s next big release. So why does old media keep relegating feature animation to the children and family films’ ghetto?
If it’s Tuesday, Walt Disney Home Entertainment must have a new DVD and Blu-ray Disc release. And they do, this time a 2–Disc Collector’s Edition of Walt Disney Pictures’ and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ production of National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets.
Pixar’s WALL•E Defines “Wonder”
The WALL•E World Premiere from the Brown Carpet
WALL•E Trips on Disney’s Carbon Footprint
The Sword in the Stone
First Look: WALL•E on the Brown Carpet
First Look: WALL•E Lands at Disney.com
Imagineering Day at Walt Disney’s Carolwood Barn
WDI Animatronic Outsourcing Means Additional Layoffs
Don’t Call ’em Kids Movies!!!
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets