If you're a cinephile, then check out Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, a documentary looking at the history and innovations of sound in film.
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The first Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound trailer dives into the art of sound design on film, speaking with various filmmakers and sound designers.
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Lucasfilm is getting into the CG animation game, and the company's first film, directed by Gary Rydstrom (Lifted, Toy Story‘s Hawaiian Vacation) from a story by George Lucas, is a musical inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream and (if the tunes are anything to go by) the teen culture of the '50s and '60s. The…
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We knew that Lucasfilm was making a new animated movie; now it is already set for release in January 2015. Recently rumors surfaced of a possible sequel title for Frozen, when Disney registered URLs using the title "Strange Magic." As it turns out, Strange Magic is the name of an already-completed animated film from Lucasfilm. The…
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Pixar works on their films for years; most releases are developed for a good five years. Almost every film they've developed has had problems at one point of another. Some, like Ratatouille and Toy Story, were completely reworked when Pixar realized the story wasn't working. The film newt was announced in 2008 at a Disney presentation, and…
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As the Disney earnings call approaches, Disney finally decided to announce publicly that screenwriter Michael Arndt was officially off Star Wars Episode VII, and that director J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan are busy working on the current screenplay. (If you havent yet, read more about that here.) But the press release also featured details of…
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Tomorrow Disney kicks off its own private fan/press event, D23, which takes place every two years. There will be many new materials revealed from a variety of Disney projects, from Frozen and Big Hero 6 to the Pixar films The Good Dinosaur, Inside/Out from Up director Pete Docter, and Finding Dory from Andrew Stanton. The new Mickey Mouse short Get a…
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Lucasfilm has always stood for something. For many years, it was a beacon of excellence thanks to Indiana Jones and Star Wars. Then, for a while, it was a whipping boy thanks to fan dissatisfaction. These days, after the sale to Disney, it's a mystery box. A company whose inner workings and project slate are…
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Twenty years later after its original release, it's still tough to top Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park for believable movie dinosaurs. While we'll never know for certain how close the effects wizards actually came to replicating the prehistoric creatures, everything about their appearances in the film, from the way cock their heads to the way they…
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We've got lots of beautiful concept art for you on this Monday evening from two separate projects: Walt Disney Animation's upcoming short Tick Tock Tale, and Pixar's canceled feature Newt. I've been looking forward to Tick Tock Tale since we got our first look at some clips and images, so I'm finding the concept art interesting…
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After over a year of speculation, yesterday it was finally officially announced that Pixar is working on a Monsters Inc sequel. Not only that, but Monsters Inc 2 even has a release date: November 16th 2012.But the one thing absent from the announcement was any mention of a writer or director. Who is writing Monsters…
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Yesterday when we told you that Cars 2 had been moved forward to the Summer 2011, we forgot to tell you that Pixar's Newt would be getting the old Cars 2 release date of Summer 2012. It wasn't made clear why the change was made, but I'm assuming that newt probably required more development time,…
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Big news on the Disney/Pixar front, the mouse house has revealed Pixar's future animation slate: May 29th 2009: From the Academy Award®-nominated team of director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) and co-director Bob Peterson comes Up, a comedic adventure taking off (and lifting spirits). Here is a brand new plot synopsis direct from the studio: Carl…
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A lot of the industry talk now-a-days is about the viability of day and date releases (ie releasing a movie on dvd and theatrically on the same day or week). Most theater owners are against the idea, fearing a loss of revenue. And most of the big Hollywood studios are also against the idea because…
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Animation World Magazine has confirmed rumors that Academy Award winning director Gary Rydstrom is currently directing a feature length animated film at Pixar. Before being given the greenlight on his first feature, Gary pitched three ideas for a short film to Pixar, and Lifted was accepted. Rydstrom received his fourteenth Academy Award nomination for directing…
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