John Lasseter is officially exiting his top posts at Pixar and Disney at the end of 2018. The former animator was one of the founding employees of Pixar, helping to evolve the company from a computer company to an animation studio and directing Pixar’s first three features himself, Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, and Toy Story 2. Lasseter continued to oversee Pixar as the studio … Continue reading John Lasseter to Leave Pixar and Disney!!!
Toy Story 4 hasn’t had the smoothest of rides to the screen, with the movie being pushed back from its original summer 2017 release date, first to 2018 and then to 2019, as well as losing its original screenwriters Rashida Jones and Will McCormack and co-director John Lasseter, the latter of whom is currently on leave from his role as CCO of Disney amid misconduct … Continue reading Pixar Has Reportedly Thrown 75% of ‘Toy Story 4’ Script!!
After a number of stops and starts, it appears Disney and Pixar are holding fast to a 2019 release date for Toy Story 4. The sequel was first announced back in 2014, with John Lasseter directing and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack writing the screenplay based on an original story from Lasseter and Pixar mainstays Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Lee Unkrich—the creators of the … Continue reading ‘Toy Story 4’ Release Date Confirmed for 2019!!!
The Black Panther box office train keeps on rollin’. The Marvel Studios film bowed to record-breaking numbers last weekend, scoring over $200 million in just three days, and now the film is poised to cross the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office today. The film finished with an MCU-best $14.5 million Wednesday, surpassing The Avengers’ previous Wednesday record of $13.6 million. That is … Continue reading ‘Black Panther’ Box Office to Cross $500 Million Today!!
Pixar has enlisted a new scribe for its long-in-the-works sequel Toy Story 4. Back when the follow-up was first announced in 2014, we learned that Pixar had signed Rashida Jones and her creative partner Will McCormack (Celeste & Jesse Forever) to pen the screenplay for what was teased as a romantic comedy and not a direct sequel to Toy Story 3. Jones and McCormack left … Continue reading ‘Toy Story 4’ Gets New Writer in Stephany Folsom!!!
Mere hours before Pixar’s Coco is set to make its Thanksgiving week debut in the U.S., the acclaimed animation studio will be weathering some disturbing news. Co-founder John Lasseter will be taking a six-month leave of absence from the company after “difficult conversations” regarding some “missteps” he’s made over the years. While those carefully chosen words appeared in a Pixar memo that recently made its way … Continue reading Pixar Co-Founder John Lasseter Takes a Leave of Absence After “Difficult Conversations”!!!
There’s been a bit of a creative shakeup on Pixar’s Toy Story 4, as was announced today at D23. John Lasseter, who directed Toy Story and Toy Story 2 (Lee Unkrich took over for the third installment) was originally slated to return to the helm for the new sequel, but now, originally announced co-director Josh Cooley (Riley’s First Date) has taken over as director. Lasseter … Continue reading ‘Toy Story 4’ Director Shakeup: Josh Cooley Takes Over for John Lasseter!!
It feels like it’s been forever since we had an original Pixar movie. In truth, we got two in 2015—Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur—but the studio is in the midst of a lot of sequels. We recently got Finding Dory and Cars 3, and while we’ll also have the original Coco this November, the studio is still working on The Incredibles 2 and Toy … Continue reading Pixar Working on Untitled Movie Set in a “Suburban Fantasy World”!!!
There’s been a pretty big release date shake-up in Pixar-land. Two of the studio’s most high-profile projects are getting a release date swap. The Incredibles 2 will arrive in theaters on June 15, 2018 while Toy Story 4 will move back to June 21, 2019. THR reports that the highly-anticipated sequels are getting the old switcheroo due to an accelerated production schedule on Incredibles 2. … Continue reading ‘The Incredibles 2’ Release Date Bumped Up; ‘Toy Story 4’ Delayed Again!!
If you want to celebrate Pixar for their originality, the next few years are going to be tough. With the exception of Lee Unkrich’s Coco, the studio is going all-in on sequels. They’ll be releasing Cars 3, Toy Story 4, and The Incredibles 2 in the years to come, and while sequels aren’t always inherently bad (Toy Story 2 is one of the best films to come from Pixar), it’s a bit … Continue reading Pixar’s Reign of Sequels Will End after 2019!!
While Pixar Animation Studios has a new film hitting theaters next weekend with the sequel Finding Dory, the studio’s next effort also happens to be a sequel. Indeed, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that next up on Pixar’s docket is Cars 3, which opens in theaters next May. We know precious little about the follow-up, which will be helmed by first-timer Brian Fee whose first Pixar … Continue reading ‘Cars 3’: John Lasseter Teases “Very Emotional” Story, Different Tone!!
Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim is always a deluge of information regarding the Mouse’s upcoming projects and major releases. So below you’ll find the logos for a slew of movies, including Alice Through the Looking Glass, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Coco, Zootopia, Gigantic, and many more. Some are new, some are old, some may be new to you, but now … Continue reading Disney unlocks logos of upcoming films along with Jungle Book live action poster!!
