Pixar screened WALL-E at their wrap party celebration, and it appears a few outsiders got in. Two reviews have leaked onto the interwebs. DoomMunky calls the film “honestly funny, moving and exciting,” refers to Wall-E itself (or is it himself?) as “adorable and endearing.”
“It’s a great, great movie. … I can’t wait to see it again, and I never want to see something again right away.”
A second glowing review showed up briefly before suddenly disappearing over on the TAG Blog. Thankfully our friends at Upcoming Pixar was able to save the text:
“It is about as far from the “same-old” as you can get. I got to see it last night [...]

Disney has provided /Film with Eight Exclusive images from Pixar’s WALL-E. You might recognize some of these images, as a couple leaked onto the interwebs last month in a low res. As always, click to enlarge.

Official Plot Synopsis: What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (”Finding Nemo”) and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios (”The Incredibles,” “Cars,” “Ratatouille”) transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away for a new computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL•E.
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, [...]

The Pixar Projection website has confirmed what I have been told by my own internal sources, WALL-E will be the first Pixar film to not offer a look at the Emeryville-based animation company’s next film Up. Instead the trailer for Disney’s Bolt will be attached. We also found out exact running times. The Pixar short film Presto runs 5 minutes and 14 seconds and the final runtime for WALL-E is 1 hour 37 minutes and 43 seconds.
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Our friends at Upcoming Pixar pointed [...]

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WALL-E Visits Morning Show by CN8
The Pitch: The life-size animatronic WALL-E made an appearance on a local morning show on CN8. Thanks to The Pixar Blog for passing this along.

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You’ve seen WALL-E encounter a vacuum, a magnet, a Hula Hoop, headphones and now our favorite little animated robot comes face to face with with a floor full of bouncy balls.
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Disney’s life-size fully animatronic WALL-E (which was spotted in LA last month) has now made an appearance at the Philadelphia Science Museum. /Film Reader Peetah sent over the following:
The audio-animatronic Wall-E is apparently making the rounds to science museums and he did a stopover here in Philadelphia yesterday (publicity around these events is oddly absent there’s nothing on the web to my knowledge, although I did find out the next stop was the Newseum in Washington DC). There’s about a [...]

Thinkway Toys just revealed their entire line-up of WALL-E merchandise. I usually don’t get excited over toys and action figures, but I have a feeling I’m going to waste too much money on plastic Wall-E toys this Summer. Check out some of my favorites below.

U-Command WALL•E 
Action packed WALL∙E with realistic expressions, light-up eyes, original movie voice and sound effects! Send instant order or preprogrammed action sequence to WALL∙E via the wireless remote control and he’ll carry out your command! Programmable remote control with 1000+ action combos! 10 Program buttons for expressions, voice, SFX, dance, motion & more! Real tread motion!

Disney/Pixar has released a new WALL-E featurette called “The Man and the Machine” which focuses on director Andrew Stanton and the creation of our favorite little robot. We get to see how Andrew directs, intercut with interview clips and some never-before-seen footage from the film. Watch the video below.
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WALL-E hits theaters on June 27th 2008.
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WALL-E was given a G-Rating [...]

A new video has turned up online claiming that if you look closely, you can find WALL-E in the background of certain scenes in Toy Story, The Incredibles and Cars. And I wouldn’t put it past the guys at Emmeryville. If you watched the teaser trailer for WALL-E than you know that the cute little robot was just one of the creations to come out of a now infamous lunch that was also responsible for Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and a Bugs Life. So it’s not like WALL-E was created yesterday. Pixar is known to throw a ton of self-rerential easter eggs in their movies. Jim Hill even compiled a [...]

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TotalFilm has a batch of production photos from Pixar’s WALL-E.

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Disney/Pixar has developed a mobile animatronic version of WALL-E to roam the Disney amusement parks. /Film Twitter friend Jeremy C spotted the robot in the streets of Los Angeles and was able to capture this video footage of the droid in action. I want one, how much?