DisneyToons Announced An Untitled Aviation Movie Set In The 'Planes' & 'Cars' Universe
At the D23 Expo, a DisneyToons space movie was announced that will focus on the future of aviation in the Cars and Planes universe. Find out more here.
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Nineteen Films Submitted For Best Animated Oscar Consideration
Award season is ready to get into full swing, and one of the early stages of the runup to the Academy Awards is the submission of Best Animated Feature options. This year there are nineteen submitted features, including big studio fare (Cloudy 2, The Croods, Despicable Me 2, Monsters University), one from Studio Ghibli (The…
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LOL: Disney's 'Warplanes'
When Disney realized the potential behind the world of Cars, we got Cars 2 and this summer's spin-off Planes. Next summer even brings a sequel Planes: Fire and Rescue. But where can it go from there? The team at Gritty Reboots on YouTube have an idea. It's called Warplanes, and the video is as sick…
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WTF: Disney's 'Planes' Gets An Asylum-Style Knockoff, 'Wings'
When Disney took a long look at the DisneyToon studios film Planes, which acts as a spin-off from Pixar's Cars films, the decision was made to give it a theatrical run of its own. Once intended as a direct-to-disc moneymaker, the movie once knocked as a cash-in knockoff of Pixar's work hit the big time. That…
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Sequel Bits: 'Tron 3', 'Expendables 3', 'Boondock Saints 3', 'Veronica Mars'
We're sure to have tons of sequel-related news coming up later this week from Comic-Con, but in the meantime we have a bunch of other, non-SDCC news to share with you. After the jump: Troy Duffy is cooking up more Boondock Saints Joseph Kosinski offers a minor update on Tron 3 Chinese superstar Han Geng joins…
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Sequel Bits: 'Fast & Furious 7', 'Top Gun 2', 'Riddick', 'Pirates 5', Stephen King
Feast your eyes on posters for Riddick, Planes, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters in today's Sequel Bits. Also after the jump: Brad Pitt thinks a World War Z sequel has potential Jerry Bruckheimer talks Pirates 5 and Top Gun 2 Don't believe those Transformers 4 title rumors, says Michael Bay Jason Statham is "really…
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'Planes' Trailer: Disney Has A Need For Speed And A Fear Of Heights
The Formula One rivals of Ron Howard's Rush won't be the only racers speeding toward possible death this year. Disney's Planes features an aerial race contender so inexperienced and unqualified that his very participation prompts one character to shrug, "Well, he's going to die." In most other respects, though, we can probably expect Planes to…
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Watch A Single Movie Trailer For (Almost) All The Major Releases Of Summer 2013
Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that's about an hour and half of your life you'll never get back. That's time you could've spent actually watching one of these movies. If you…
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First Footage From Disney's 'Planes,' Featuring Two 'Top Gun' Co-Stars
With Disney's announcement earlier today of a Finding Nemo sequel, Finding Dory, set for 2015, it's extremely interesting that they'd also choose today release a brand new glimpse of Planes. The Dory reveal started a lot of conversation, both on this site and Twitter, about Pixar's recent penchant for sequels. Planes isn't a sequel, nor is…
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'Planes' Voice Cast Includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Cleese And A 'Top Gun' Reunion
Disney's Cars spin-off Planes is getting a boost from a high-profile voice cast. Following Dane Cook's casting last month as protagonist Dusty, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Teri Hatcher, John Cleese, and many more have signed on to fill the supporting cast. There's even a mini Top Gun reunion going on, with Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards. Get details on…
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Dane Cook Will Voice The Lead Character In Disney's 'Planes'
Disney's Planes, the former direct-to-DVD film that's now been given the full-blown, 3D theatrical treatment, has just announced its star. Dane Cook, one of the world's most famous and successful comedians, though paradoxically not necessarily the most popular comedian, will voice the lead character of Dusty (above), a plane who hopes to be a racer but is afraid…
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'Planes' Trailer: Disney Does Pixar
Pixar seems done with the Cars universe for the time being, but Disney isn't letting a franchise that popular lay fallow. A couple of years back, DisneyToon Studios began work on a direct-to-DVD spinoff titled Planes, about a crop duster named Dusty who unexpectedly lands a spot in world-class air race. Then, much like its…
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'Cars' Spin-Off 'Planes' Flying Into Theaters Next Summer
Grownup fans will argue til the cows come home about which Pixar movie is the best (it's Ratatouille, FYI), but when it comes to the studio's worst film, there's a strong consensus that Cars 2 is the studio's low point. Even the original Cars was beloved more by kids than their parents, and the sequel…
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Direct To DVD 'Cars' Spinoff 'Planes' Pushed From Spring To Fall 2013; 'Planes 2: Fire And Rescue' Already In The Works
To be fair, a low point for Pixar is still what would be considered a middle or even high point for most studios, but that doesn't change the fact that most people over the age of 12 see the two Cars films as the nadir of Pixar's oeuvre. It's doubtful that the direct-to-DVD spinoff Planes will fare…
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Disney's Cars-Spinoff 'Planes' Teaser Trailer
Last year, it was revealed that Disney was developing a film called Planes, a direct-to-DVD computer animated spin-off from Cars. Its notable that while the trailer mentions the story takes place "from above the world of Cars", the teaser has no mention of Pixar AT ALL. Even the Disney-Pixar production company logo above the movie…
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'Planes,' The Direct To DVD 'Cars' Spin-Off, Officially Announced By DisneyToon Studios
A Cars spin-off called Planes has been in development for some time by DisneyToon Studios but we've known little about the story. All we knew is that it would be a direct to DVD title somehow related to cars, being developed as "“a semi-sequel and spinoff franchise to Cars, one meant to take advantage of…
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Cars Spin-Off, 'Planes,' Being Developed By Disney Toon Studios, Not Pixar
We recently heard that Pixar is developing a film called Planes, intended to be a spin-off from Cars. The film is meant for direct-to-DVD distribution, and some took the move as a sign of a slide for Pixar. When a studio is able to rule the theatrical animation landscape, why churn out direct disc fodder?…
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Pixar Reportedly Developing 'Planes' As Direct To DVD Spinoff Of 'Cars'
It had to happen eventually. Pixar has flirted with the idea of direct to DVD sequels in the past -- notably with Toy Story 2 -- and as the studio veers more overtly towards sequels that leverage proven characters (the Toy Story films, Cars 2, Monsters Inc. 2) it is probably inevitable that we'd see…
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