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• "Kung Fu Panda" 's opening weekend grosses really kicked butt ... but here comes "WALL-E"

  Jim Hill shares what he's heard about this new Andrew Stanton film. Which looks ready to reverse the domestic box office trends that tripped up Pixar's last three pictures Read More... Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 12:00 AM | 21 Comments Filed under: Disney, DreamWorks, CG, Walt Disney Pictures, "Cars", "Ratatouille", "Shrek the Third", DreamWorks Animation, "The Incredibles", "Finding Nemo", Labor Day, "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", "Shrek 2", "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", box office, 2008, Disney / Pixar, animated feature, opening weekend grosses, opening weekend, TV show, franchise, Andrew Stanton, "Cloverfield", animated features, animated series , CG feature, "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both World Concert" , "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "Kung Fu Panda", John Stevenson , Mark Osborne , "WALL-E" , "Iron Man", "Kung Fu Panda" TV series, "Kung Fu Panda" animated series, "Sex and the City", "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who", "You Don't Mess with the Zohan", "Madagascar", "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", "Ice Age: The Meltdown" , "Ice Age" , box office projections, box office estimates, research, "10, 2004, Summer

• "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades

  Jim Hill reviews Karen Paik's inspired (more importantly, inspiring) new history of Pixar Animation Studios. Which offers a lot of insight about how John Lasseter became the Big Kahuna of the CG world Read More... Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, movies, Pixar, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, John Musker, "The Little Mermaid", "Cars", "Ratatouille", Leslie Iwerks, Brad Bird, "Aladdin", Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Ron Miller, "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", WDAS, featurette, "Monsters Inc.", "The Pixar Story", "To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios", Karen Paik, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney Studios, film, movie, Mouse, Disney / Pixar, 2007, "Tis the season" , feature film , Chronicle Books, "The Art of Animation", Bob Thomas, cartoons, epiphany, coffee table book, hardcover, church, pew, gourd, sermon, pencil, pencil time, award, The Headless Horseman, "The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr Toad", station wagon, Casper the Friendly Ghost, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, character animation, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, calcified, middle management, "The Fox and the Hound", old guard, Tom Wilhite, Maurice Sendak, picture book, "Where the Wild Things Are", Thomas M Disch, "The Brave Little Toaster", Marin, Lucasfilm, "The Adventures of Andre & Wally B", SIGGRAPH, animated short, short, character comedy, cutting-edge technology, money pit, Jane Eisner, Roald Dahl, "James and the Giant Peach", human costs, keyboard, repetitive-stress injury, "The Art of Ratatouille", aspiring animator, holiday shopping list

• Monday Mouse Watch: Will live action productions really help Pixar deal with its brand fatigue problem?

  Jim Hill asks: What's it going to take to make the domestic release of a new Pixar film seem like a special event again? Will live action projects like "John Carter of Mars" & "1906" really be enough to re-energize this animation studio's U.S. fanbase? Read More... Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 12:00 AM | 51 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Bob Iger, promotion, "Cars", "Ratatouille", Leslie Iwerks, Brad Bird, Walt Disney Animation Studios, "The Incredibles", Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, marketing, "Toy Story 2", "20000 Leagues Under the Sea", WDAS, "The Lion King", Burbank, Mars, brand fatigue, "Song of the South", Herald Sun, "Monsters Inc.", Wally Hammond, Time Out, Time Out London, "The Pixar Story", "To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios", Karen Paik, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, "WALL * E", IMAX 3D, "John Carter of Mars", Barsoom, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, San Francisco

• Toon Tuesday: Why "Ratatouille" 's good-but-not-great box office numbers are now causing problems for Disney's marketing department

  Jim Hill talks about all of the finger-pointing that's going on in Burbank & Emeryville, as execs try to find someone to blame for this Pixar picture's perceived under-performance Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:00 AM | 105 Comments Filed under: Disney, movies, Pixar, computer animation, Walt Disney Pictures, promotion, "Cars", "Ratatouille", "The Simpsons Movie", Brad Bird, "Enchanted", WALL E, "The Incredibles", "Finding Nemo", Pixar Animation Studios, "A Bug's Life", marketing, "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", "The Bourne Ultimatum"