Check out this huge Ralph Breaks the Internet Disney princess doll set that includes all of the casual princesses from the film's most memorable scene.
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Want to know where and when you can see Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a bunch of modern classic Disney princess movies in theaters? We've got you.
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A new video runs through some of the most blatant Pixar ripoffs that you may never have heard of. We're not just talking about vague similarities here.
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If you're in Alhambra, CA, check out the Gallery Nucleus Pixar artwork exhibition with one piece for each of their movies, handpicked by John Lasseter.
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One fan assembled a video showing off a whole bunch of Pixar's classic movie references. Some are obvious, but there are probably a few you didn't notice.
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For the Pixar 20th anniversary, editor Kees van Dijkhuizen has delivered a wonderful tribute to the company that changed the face of animation forever.
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A fandmade Pixar emotions montage highlighted by animation house director Lee Unkrich runs through the powerful feelings of Pixar Animation's finest.
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In honor of the girl-driven Inside Out, we take a look back at our favorite Pixar female characters, from Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl to Edna Mode.
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The odds of Disney remaking Brave as a live-action movie in the near future are basically zip, and thank God for that. But if such a thing came to pass, they could certainly do worse than cast Jessica Chastain in the lead role. For now, though, the Zero Dark Thirty actress will have to settle…
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For all the hate, garbage and stupidity the Internet brings us on a daily basis, every once in a while it provides a global platform for something awesome. In this case, Jon Negroni's Pixar Theory. Negroni wrote a post that has been circulating since last week which goes through every single Pixar movie since Toy Story…
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The Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida rolled out the red carpet this weekend as they coronated Merida, the star of Pixar's Brave, as the 11th official Disney princess. It was a lavish occasion and video of the event is now online. While this universal acceptance into the Disney's canon should be…
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Disney and Pixar got more than they bargained for with last year's hit film Brave. They got a viable new franchise, a boatload of cash and even a brand new addition to their iconic list of Princesses, which includes Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel, Jasmine and others. Merida, the star of the film, will officially be coronated as the…
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Mark Andrews, like many of Pixar's feature directors, has a long history at the company. He worked on The Incredibles as story supervisor, and directed the short One Man Band, and co-wrote Jack-Jack Attack and One Man Band. He was promoted to director of Brave when Brenda Chapman was removed, and watched the film go…
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Dave, Devindra, Germain, and Russ chat about their thoughts on this year's Academy Awards. How funny and offensive was Seth MacFarlane? Who still remembers Chicago? What the hell were Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy doing up there? Tune in and find out! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at…
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In a weird way, special effects are never less noticeable than when they're done really well. The best artists are able to blend the real and the unreal so seamlessly that it's all but impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. So it's cool to get a chance to see the painstaking…
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For the 70th year, the Hollywood Foreign Press handed out their Golden Globe Awards Sunday night. Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler entertained an audience of TV and movie fans there to bestow awards to shows like Girls, Modern Family, Smash, Breaking Bad, Homeland and Downton Abbey and films like Lincoln, Argo, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Silver Linings…
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This morning Megan Fox, Ed Helms, and Jessica Alba announced the nominations for the 2013 Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the event, is famous for nominating films and performances simply based on their star factor -- if there's an actor that members of the HFPA want to hang out with,…
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It's been a big day for awards, as the New York Film Critics Circle kicked off awards season, handing out the first accolades for achievement in filmin 2012. (Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln were the big winners.) Now here are the nominations for the animation-specific Annie Awards, and these might make people happy who were…
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It's tradition for Pixar to run an animated short ahead of their theatrical features, and said short usually comes packaged with the full-length movie in the DVD / Blu-ray release as well. For Brave, however, Pixar is including not one but two short films. The first is La Luna, which we already saw when it…
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As comics have been embraced by Hollywood as the new go-to pasture for grazing on established properties and characters, film writers have occasionally tackled comics as well. Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon, and J. Michael Straczynski are among the most high-profile talents who have gone from film and TV to comics. Now Chronicle writer Max Landis is…
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Editor's Note: The initial version of this story said that Disney was "suing" Brightspark, which is not yet the case. They have actually only taken the first legal step of contacting the company to stop selling their film. Those changes have been made in the headline and body below. Who hasn't been in a supermarket,…
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Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow will be sharing the multiplex this weekend with another red-haired heroine making a last-minute push for box office dollars. Disney's doubling down on old releases for Labor Day, giving Pixar's Brave a one-week-only wider opening. The animated adventure has dwindled to just 450 theaters by last weekend, but will be bumped…
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Watch enough movies, and you'll find that you occasionally walk out of the theater sometimes with the vaguely disappointing feeling that you've just shelled out $14 to see a movie you're already seen before. Sometimes, it's no surprise that a film looks derivative -- did anyone really expect Underworld: Awakening to wow us with its…
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We love discovering the hidden easter eggs that Pixar hides within their movies. We've been collecting the easter eggs for some time now, having extensive write-ups of all the hidden secrets in Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, and even the short film Day & Night. When it was announced that Pixar would be released…
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Sound is an essential element for almost any film, but animated films in particular benefit from stellar audio design. Most of the featurettes we've seen from the Soundworks Collection have been focused on live-action films (or mostly live-action films, such as the Transformers movies) but now we've got one that looks at the production of…
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The release of Inside Out is an invitation to revisit all the films from Pixar, going back to the studio's 1995 debut Toy Story. That movie changed the landscape of feature animation with stunning immediacy; after Pixar hit the scene nothing was the same. The twenty years since have given us a total of fifteen animated…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the crappiness of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, explore the pleasures of male stripping, and ponder the mediocrity of Brave. Special guest Jen Yamato joins us from Movieline. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. We'll be reviewing Magic Mike next…
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