Entries from LAist tagged with 'pixar'
November 18, 2008
Johnny 5 experiences late-career resurgence! | Photo courtesy of Pixar Pixar continues its phenomenal string of delivering fantastic films with Wall-E. It may be their best yet. Ben Stiller recovers some of his lost comedic magic with Tropic Thunder (though it's really Downey who owns the movie.) Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 would have benefited from more Blake Lively and changing the setting to a Swiss nudist colony. Werner Herzog may not be the......
Continue Reading "DVD Tuesday: Wall-E or Thunder?"June 30, 2008
Wall-E prior to the apocalypse that destroyed humanity. | Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Wall-E continued Pixar's long streak of box-office success this weekend as it hauled in $62.5M to top the vile action flick Wanted ($51.1M). The race wasn't expected to be nearly so close, but Wanted somehow managed to blast past early estimates and do huge business in a rare hit for Angelina Jolie. Hold-overs staked out the rest of the top 10:......
Continue Reading "Box Office Review: Number 5 is Number 1"June 27, 2008
But where the hell is Fisher Stevens? | Photo courtesy of Disney Sooner or later Pixar has to release a dud, right? They can't just keep releasing great film after great film can they? Won't the odds eventually catch up to them? Maybe not. The early critical reception for Wall-E has been nothing short of ecstatic. If you thought the first ten, dialogue-free minutes of There Will Be Blood were pure cinematic brilliance, wait till......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movie Guide: Number 5 is alive!"June 19, 2008
Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist The people behind SaveGriffithPark.org write in and ask the hard questions: It looks like several powerful corporations and the officials they keep have found an unprecedented way to privatize Griffith Park. If you're in the park this weekend – that is, if you're allowed – have a camera and paper handy to record the goings-on. Press releases posted by Forbes and Business Wire reveal that Saturday, June 21st, Disney-Pixar is......
Continue Reading "Dear LAist: Is this the Disneyfication of Griffith Park?"December 18, 2007
Pixar today released a new trailer for their upcoming movie, WALL-E. The movie is about the last robot on a human abandoned earth who's task is to clean up the mess we made....
Continue Reading "Pixar's New WALL-E Trailer"