Editorial corrections are typically boring—little notes explaining that a fine detail, like a date or the spelling of name, was slightly off and needed to be fixed. Though they’re important to identify, they’re also usually not particularly interesting. Journalist Cleuci de Oliveira, though, has been curating a…
John Lasseter, the co-founder of Pixar and chief creative officer of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation took a leave from those companies over allegations of harassment and misconduct, including (as one anonymous source put it) “grabbing, kissing, [and] making comments about physical attributes” of women at…
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Sesame Street animator and Pixar character designer Bud Luckey has died. His family says he died this weekend after an “extended illness.” Luckey was 83.
Square-Enix’s Kingdom Hearts games have always been a weird mash-up of Final Fantasy-derived nonsense plotting and recognizable Disney characters. Now, a new trailer for the series’ long-anticipated third game has pushed that bizarre envelope even further, finally answering that age-old question: What would Donald…
Despite previous reports that he’d be co-directing the film (after taking the third installment off) Pixar leader John Lasseter won’t be in the director’s chair for Toy Story 4. Variety reports that Lasseter broke the news to fans at Disney’s D23 expo today, revealing that he’s leaving the franchise’s fourth…
Welcome back to Mailbag, a series about the sometimes weird, sometimes fun stuff we get in the mail. Once again, we have a themed Funko box to give away. This time around, we received a carnival-themed box for a Disney fan out there. In the box, you’ll find two Funko Pops (Dumbo and Pluto), a mini Woody figurine with…
The Toy Story franchise is already more melancholy than the average kids’ film series, what with all the near-death experiences and broken-hearted, abandoned cowgirls. But even Pixar’s darker work rarely goes so dark as to cite polio, which is why fans of the films were kind of surprised when someone claiming to have…
Let’s make something clear up front: Tim Allen is doing just fine. Dude’s on the sixth season of his ABC sitcom Last Man Standing in addition to regularly raking in those sweet, sweet Toy Story and Home Improvement residuals. Still, you might be wondering why you don’t see Allen in movies anymore, and that’s the…
Pixar originally wanted Billy Crystal to voice Buzz Lightyear in its first feature, 1995’s Toy Story (Crystal turned it down and the part went to Tim Allen). The animation studio went so far as to put some When Harry Met Sally dialogue into a piece of custom-made animation, tailored to Crystal’s character freaking out…
We have long loved the idea that our fictions take place in some sort of consistent alternate universe—that there are unexpected tunnels between our favorite films and books and shows. Whether it’s the xenomorph from Alien showing up as a trophy in the Predator’s spaceship or the grand connective tissue between all…
It became a common refrain as heroes died, villains ascended, and truth and beauty were succeeded by a million Facebook shares on a fake-news story about the pope endorsing Donald Trump: 2016 was a motherfucker. If you made it all the way through, congratulations. You’ve outlasted Prince, the concept of liberal…
Quick, what’s the most famous teapot in animation history? Mrs. Potts from 1991’s Disney classic Beauty And The Beast? With all due respect to Angela Lansbury, that’s not even close. In an episode of his web series Things You Might Not Know, YouTuber Tom Scott explains the legend of the so-called Utah Teapot, the…
No amount of money can take you back to your childhood, but now you can fall back with style while wearing shoes inspired by Pixar’s first movie, Toy Story. These sweet kicks look like they’re torn straight from Andy’s room, with Woody cowboy prints and Buzz space patterns vying for attention.
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With Pixar dominating the American box office yet again with Finding Dory, the supercut specialists at Burger Fiction have decided to pay tribute to the pioneering computer animation studio with a video called “The Evolution Of Pixar.” This 14-minute omnibus includes clips from all of Pixar’s short films and features…
For a long time, it seemed like Pixar was untouchable when it came to critical accolades and box office success. The recent output of Brave, Monsters University, Inside Out, and The Good Dinosaur all have their fans and detractors, but for a good stretch they were putting out seemingly incomparable films. The…
Marvel’s Deadpool recently proved that there is definitely a healthy market for R-rated superhero movies. And Zack Snyder’s promised R-rated cut of Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice will allow that film to be even darker and more violent than it already is. So when, America wants to know, is Pixar going to bite the…
Sure, he wears a black T-shirt with a skull on it, terrorizes his little sister, and deconstructs his toys. But does any of this actually make Sid from Pixar’s original Toy Story in 1995 a full-fledged villain? In a new video on the Super Carlin Brothers YouTube channel, Jonathan Carlin makes a compelling case for…
With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or you just want science to make up its damn mind about how many planets there are. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,067,917-week series, Wiki Wormhole.
Pixar has created its fair share of indelible images over the past few decades. From the first sighting of “the claw” to Up’s heartbreaking montage of a life well lived, the acclaimed animation house has been cranking out iconic moments at a rapid-fire pace, cementing its place in the halls of movie history. But, like…
