Posted on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 by Peter Sciretta
Disney’s Paperman won the Oscar for Best Animated short film at this year’s Academy Awards. CollegeHumor couldn’t let the sweet whimsical love story conclude the way it did, and has decided to show us the more realistic “the full, unedited ending” that didn’t exist. Watch it now embedded after the jump.
Posted on Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 by Germain Lussier
Don’t say Disney folk can’t be badasses, or at least smartasses. Kristina Reed, producer of the short film Paperman, was temporarily kicked out of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony after celebrating her film’s victory. Once Paperman took the Oscar for Best Animated Short, Reed, who was sitting in one of the many balconies at the Dolby Theater, began throwing paper airplanes with kisses on them. When security saw, she was asked to leave. Read More »
Posted on Monday, February 4th, 2013 by Angie Han
While it was anyone’s guess who’d win the Super Bowl last night, the movie awards ceremonies this weekend were more predictable. Argo continued its steamroll through awards season, picking up a DGA award for Ben Affleck to go with the film’s earlier PGA, SAG, and Globes victories, while PGA winner Wreck-It Ralph took the top prize at the Annies.
Oscar favorites Searching for Sugar Man and Paperman also proved popular on the movie front, as did Jay Roach, Rian Johnson, and Lena Dunham in the small-screen world. Hit the jump to read the winners.
Posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 by Angie Han
If you caught Wreck-It Ralph last fall — and considering its $182 million domestic box office gross, there’s a good chance you did — you’ve probably already seen Paperman, Disney’s buzzed-about 2D animated short. But if you missed it, or if you did see it but are just eager to relive the magic, you’re in luck. Disney has uploaded the six-minute film in full to YouTube, and you can enjoy it after the jump.
Using a combination of hand-drawn and CG techniques, the mostly black-and-white movie follows a man and a woman who meet by chance on their morning commute. They part ways before they have a chance to speak, but when he sees her in the office right across the street from his, he spends the rest of the day attempting to reconnect. Click through to watch the video.
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 by Germain Lussier
Disney Animation Studios latest short film, Paperman, has been generating a ton of buzz since screenings began earlier this summer. Directed by John Kahrs, the film uniquely blends hand-drawn and computer generated animation to create a strikingly beautiful vision of mid-century New York City. There, “a young man relies on his heart, imagination, a stack of papers—and a little luck—to win the girl of his dreams.” It’ll hit theaters nationwide November 2 as the short film attached Disney’s featured animated film, Wreck-It Ralph.
/Film was lucky enough to see Paperman at an early press day for Wreck-It Ralph (which we’ll have MUCH more on in the coming days) and figured it was worth a video blog. After the jump watch myself and Ben Pearson from FirstShowing.net discuss Paperman. Read More »
Posted on Thursday, June 28th, 2012 by Angie Han
As if there weren’t already enough reasons to look forward to Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, here comes one more. We’ve already told you about Paperman, the hand-drawn/CG hybrid animated short that’ll be premiering in front of that feature, and the insane amount of great buzz it’s already received. (Well — a lot of that early talk was from Pixar employees, but still.) Today we’ve got the first look at actual images from the short, and like the early concept art, they’re striking in their retro simplicity. Check them out after the jump.
Posted on Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 by Germain Lussier
Since its earliest rumblings, we’ve been following a new project by Disney Animation Studios called Paperman. It’s a short film directed by John Kahrs about “a young man in NYC relying on his heart, imagination, a stack of papers—and a little luck—to win the girl of his dreams.” The short is scheduled to premiere in theaters with Wreck-It Ralph this November.
Paperman is now finished and will reportedly debut in Los Angeles and France this month. Several new images have come on line, and the short also screened at Disney’s Pixar Studios, leading several employees there to tweet all about it. Check it out below. Read More »
Posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 by Russ Fischer
Earlier this year we brought you news of a new Disney short called Paperman that will play at festivals and likely in front of the video game-inspired film Wreck-It Ralph. The short is directed by John Kahrs, a former Pixar employee who also worked on Tangled, and there have been whispers that the short will feature a unique look and animation technique.
Now the logo has been revealed, and we know that the basic story outline is “the story of a young man in NYC relying on his heart, imagination, a stack of papers—and a little luck—to win the girl of his dreams.” But there is a lot more info available, which you can read below.
Update: We’ve got the poster now, too, and it is lovely.
