Toy Story 30

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My first post is about Toy Story turning 30. It’s a fitting title to begin film talk about seeing as it’s had such an impact on me. 

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MONSTERS UNIVERSITY MAKE YOUR OWN MONSTER

Hello. My name is Dean Blinkington.

I am starting my Freshman year of college at the prestigious "Monsters University".

My dream is to become a scare-er at Monsters Incorporated.

Create your own here!

http://disney.go.com/monsters-university/create-a-monster/

FINDING NEMO 2

To add to today's Disney... history... ummm... stuff, there are now rumors of a possible sequel to 2003's Finding Nemo, with a release date of sometime in 2016 after the release of Pixar's upcoming films "Monsters University", "The Good Dinosaur", "The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind", and "The Untitled Dia De Los Muertos Film".

With the Finding Nemo 3-D release in September and the film's Blu-ray release in December, it wouldn't surprise me if we had an announcement fairly soon!!!

"MONSTERS U" TEASER TRAILER

Yesterday, I told you that I would show you the teaser trailer for Monsters University. What I didn't know is that there would be 4 versions of it!

Here now are the 4 slightly different teaser trailers for Pixar's upcoming prequel to Monster's Inc!!!

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What do you think? It will be in theaters a year from tomorrow!!!

Also, Brave comes out this Friday!

BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF BRAVE

With Disney/Pixar's Brave coming out in three weeks, Pixar has released a short behind-the-scenes look at the film. It has some very minor film spoilers, so if you'd rather wait, don't watch this video.

Click here to watch (The video is unlisted, so only those with the link can watch it)

Brave comes out June 22nd.

FOR ALL YOU BRAVE MOTHERS

To all you Brave mothers out there, watch these videos...

Happy Mother's Day from Disney and Pixar

Sister Sheri Dew - Are We Not All Mothers?

The Women in Our Lives

Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership With God

To all you mothers... Happy Mother's Day!!!

PIXAR UPDATE

The upcoming slate of future of Pixar films has been recently updated!!!

Pixar's 12th film, "Brave" (Directed by Mark Andrews) is coming June 22nd, along with the new short film, "La Luna".

Then, on June 21st 2013 the prequel to Monsters Inc, Monsters University, is slated for release. It is directed by Dan Scanlon.

The bulky title of Pixar's May 30th 2014 film was known a few days ago as "The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs" directed by Bob Peterson and Peter Sohn.

It's now called "The Good Dinosaur". Here's the film's official synopsis...

"What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? This hilarious, heartfelt and original tale is directed by Bob Peterson (co-director/writer, “Up;” writer, “Finding Nemo”) and produced by John Walker (“The Incredibles,” “The Iron Giant”)."

I think that sounds really cool. I can't wait to see that!

Pixar's 15th feature film, "The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind" (Directed by Pete Doctor) is slated for release on June 19th 2015. Nothing except the fact that this film will explore the mind of a young girl is known yet.

Finally, the newest announcement is about a new untitled Lee Unkrich film (Director of Toy Story 3) about the mexican holiday "Dia de los Muertos". Nothing else has been announced about this project.

BRAVE TV SPOT & DISNEYLAND UPDATES

At the oscars, this new TV spot for Brave was shown... (Watch Here or below...)

 

 

 

 

Over at Disneyland, the 5 month construction project on the Matterhorn mountain attraction continues... See the progress Here, or below... (The Matterhorn will re-open on June 15th)

 

 

And, over at Disney California Adventure, construction continues on Buena Vista Street. The imagineers planted a time capsule this weekend that won't be opened until July 17th 2037! See the video Here, or below...

DESPAIR :(

Hey! Check this out! My friend Josh showed me this really funny website...

(Click to ENLARGE!)

It's called Despair Inc.

It's home to many hilarious DE-Motivational posters such as these...

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There are LOTS more on the website. There is also a place where you can create your own. Here's some that I've done...

(Nathan saw what I was doing and wanted to help me make one. He wanted to type "From Nathan", so I let him. I asked him what else he wanted to say and the top line is what he said :)

(I then made this one. BTW, these 2 pics were taken at my Aunt Phoebe's house in Utah on the day we moved up to Idaho!)

(Sarah wanted one too and this is what she said when I asked her what her favorite food was. Since she's the cutest little girl in the world :) I thought I'd save this one for last.)

I had LOADS of fun doing these. Check out the website and make your own Here!

23-19! WE HAVE A 23-19!

The Disney-Pixar film "Monster's Inc." was released in theaters 10 years ago today.

It was directed by Pete Doctor and produced by Darla K. Anderson. It starred John Goodman as "James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan", Billy Crystal as "Mike Wazowski", Steve Buscemi as "Randall", James Coburn as " Henry J. Waternoose III", and Mary Gibbs as "Boo". Music by Randy Newman.

Fun Facts about the film:

1. Billy Crystal, voice of Mike Wazowski, was originally offered to voice Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story but turned it down. When he was asked to do Mike, however, he said "yes" immediately.

2. On January 18th 2013, Monster's Inc. is scheduled to be re-released in theaters in 3-D.

3. It won an academy award for "Best Original Song" (Randy Newman "If I didn't Have You") and was also nominated for "Best Animated Film", "Best Original Score", and "Best Sound Editing."

4. A prequel to the film, "Monster's University" directed by Dan Scanlon is due out June 21st 2013. It said that it is about a younger Mike and Sulley studying at the University of Fear. It will star the original voice cast.

5. It is 92 minutes long.

6. It was made on a budget of $115,000,000 and grossed $525,366,597 worldwide.

7. A short film starring the main characters, "Mike's New Car" was released as a supplemental feature on the film's DVD.

8. It inspired the "Monster's Inc. Mike and Sulley to the Rescue" Dark-Ride attraction at Disney California Adventure park at Disneyland that opened in 2006.

9. The Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story can be seen when Randall is sent to the mobile home in the human world. That same mobile home is also seen in 1998's "A Bug's Life"

10. In Boo's room, there is a child's drawing of Mickey Mouse, the ball from Pixar's 1986 short film "Luxo Jr." and toy versions of Nemo from 2003' "Finding Nemo" and Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl from 1999's "Toy Story 2".

11. When Randall tests out his disguise on the scare floor, one of the backgrounds is the cloud wallpaper from "Toy Story".

12. Several Disneyland Attraction posters can be seen throughout the movie. A couple are the one for Storybook Land Canal boats in the Hidden City Cafe, and one for the Sailing Ship Columbia in a kid's room at the end of the film.

13. John Ratzenberger, who voices a character in every Pixar film, voiced Yeti the Abominable Snowman in Monster's Inc.

14. It was preceeded in theatres with the short film "For the Birds", which won the Academy Award for "Best Animated Short Film" in 2002.

I find it really wierd that it's been that long since it came out. I was in first grade when I went to see it. This film is special to me because when it was released on DVD, it was the one that started my obession with all things Pixar and gave me insight to how an animated movie is made. All of that stuff still really interests me and I will always remember that.

"Monster's Incorperated. We Scare, Because We Care."

CARS 2 OUT ON DVD TODAY!

Yup. Cars 2 is out on DVD and Blu-Ray today. Complete with the Toy Story Toon "Hawaiian Vacation" and the brand new Cars Toon "Air Mater". Let's see what is on Pixar's slate of upcoming projects...

Let's just hope that Pixar does better with "Brave" next summer...

It is due out June 15th with a brand new short film "La Luna".

Then, Disney has a World of Cars spin-off film called "Planes".

I'm not sure what to think about that yet, but hopefully it's good! (Anyone see the "113" on one of the planes? I wonder if that was a reference to something... A113 maybe?)

This month, on the 23rd, the new Toy Story Toon "Small Fry" will be in theaters with "The Muppets".

Several films are scheduled for releases in Digital 3-D on the big screen. The two most recently announced are 2003's Finding Nemo on September 14th 2012...

...and 2001's Monster's Inc.

Monster's Inc. will be released January 18th 2013, right before its prequel...

in June of the same year.

Also announced are 3 untitled films. An "Untitled Dinosaur Project" due out November 27th 2013, an "Untitled Inside the Mind Project" directed by Pete Doctor due out in 2014, and an untitled film directed by Lee Unkrich in 2015.

Pixar's got one heckuva busy schedule! I can't wait for what's coming!

Finding Nemo on Blu-Ray?

Disney has released this teaser for the imminent release of Finding Nemo on Hi-Def Blu-Ray Disc.

This is interesting because Finding Nemo has been on the list of upcoming Blu-Ray releases for a LOOOOOONG time. It is the last classic Pixar film waiting to be released on Blu-Ray.

Still no release date has been announced, but I suspect that it will cooincide with it's theatrical release in September...

Toy Story Toon: Hawaiin Vacation Sneak Peek

Alright. For those of you who haven't seen this short, I have here an official sneak peek of one of some of Pixar at it's best.

Enjoy!

My Take on Cars 2

Yesterday, we saw Cars 2. Well, "You Might Think I'm Crazy", but there were things I loved about this Pixar film, and others that I didn't.

It was cool to see all of the characters together again for another Pixar adventure. Also it was awsome to have more unforgettable "Mater Moments". The film pretty much starred Mater and his hilarious exploits. It was interesting to see how the spy story became intertwined with the racing story of Lighning McQueen.

Overall, it was a great film. I mean, there was an amazing voice cast, and come on! It was directed by John Lasseter!

The drawbacks of the film as a whole though, were that...

1. It villified Big Oil and old cars that run on Gasoline, and promoted new "Green" "Clean" "Safe" hippie Allinol alternative fuel.

2. The story as a whole was not well-developed. It was almost like one of those quick, simple Cars Toons blown up on a HUGE movie-scale. (Nothing wrong with the cars short films, just they're meant to be SHORT!!!)

3. The series of events was very disorienting. Everything happened really fast and it was hard to understand completely the whole time, even though I had pretty good pre-background knowledge of the plot.

Probably my favorite part of the Movie-Going experience I had yesterday was the Toy Story cartoon "Hawaiian Vacation" that played before the film.

Bonnie, the toys' new owner, is off to Hawaii for the winter, and Ken and Barbie think they are going along. It follows the events of they toys trying to cheer them up. It starred the same cast of characters as Toy Story 3, and overall, it was probably better than Cars 2 was! It's nice to know that Toy Story still lives on in these short films.

To sum it all up, I hope that Pixar learns from this hiccup, and cleans up their act for the films coming up such as 2012's "Brave"...

...and 2013's Monsters Inc. Prequel, "Monsters University."

Any thoughts?