Pixar projects in the making-

[Nephythys]

TS3-Synopsis

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy box friends are dumped in a children's day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college

Cars 2-

Cars 2 is a computer-animated 3-D film that will be produced by Pixar Animation Studios and is the sequel of the 2006 film Cars. It will be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and is scheduled for release on June 24, 2011. Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis takes over from John Lasseter as director. In the film, Lightning McQueen and Mater travel around the world.

Cars is the second Pixar film to have a sequel (the first being Toy Story). Cars 2 originally was scheduled for a 2012 release, but Pixar moved the release forward a year. It is the first of two films that Pixar will release in 2011 (the second being The Bear and the Bow), marking the first time that the studio will release more than one film in the same year.
Lasseter had been adamant that Paul Newman would return despite his retirement from acting. However, Newman died of lung cancer on September 26, 2008. George Carlin was to play the role of Fillmore but he died on June 22, 2008 of heart failure. As of mid-2008, Lasseter said that no decision had been made as to whether they would re-cast the part or simply write the characters out of the sequel.

The Bear and the Bow-

The Bear and the Bow is an upcoming computer-animated 3-D film being produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is written and directed by Brenda Chapman and features the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson and Julie Walters. It will be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and is scheduled for release around Christmas 2011.
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In Scotland, Merida (Reese Witherspoon), a member of the royal family, decides to give up her family name for her dream of becoming an archer. Merida makes reckless choices, resulting in the destruction of her father's kingdom and her mother's life. Merida then struggles to set things right.

The film, Pixar's first fairy tale, is a combination of Brenda Chapman's love of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, as well as a reflection on raising her daughter.
In a 2009 article, Linda Holmes of NPR, while praising Pixar's films, pleaded, "I have nothing against princesses. I have nothing against movies with princesses. But don't the Disney princesses pretty much have us covered? If we had to wait for your thirteenth movie for you to make one with a girl at the center, couldn't you have chosen something -- something -- for her to be that could compete with plucky robots and adventurous space toys?. . . Please, please make one about a girl who isn't a princess."

and finally-
Newt

Newt and Brooke live in a community college science lab and don't care for each other, yet as the last remaining blue-footed newts on the planet they are forced to mate and save the species.
Writer and Director Gary Rydstrom explained "Newt is smart but he's never had to think for himself and is pampered. Brooke on the other hand is streetwise and not to be messed with.


hmmmm........thoughts?

[Alex]

I mentioned this in my Up review but we may have seen the passing of an era. None of the next four movies are from the stable of four directors who have done the 10 Pixar movies up to date and all of these were put on the slate after the Disney acquisition meaning corporate politics have changed (thus TS3 and Cars 2).

Up is the end of an era but hopefully the next will be a good new era.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I always thought the first pixar era ended when Joe Ranft died. But, most of the pixar stuff hasn't looked too spectacular in their previews, so we'll see.

[Moonliner]

I mentioned this in my Up review but we may have seen the passing of an era. None of the next four movies are from the stable of four directors who have done the 10 Pixar movies up to date and all of these were put on the slate after the Disney acquisition meaning corporate politics have changed (thus TS3 and Cars 2).

Up is the end of an era but hopefully the next will be a good new era.

So what happend to the four? Have they left Pixar, retired, joined a cult, working on tippy top secret projects?

[Alex]

John Lasseter is otherwise occupied (I doubt he'll ever direct a movie again but who knows). Brad Bird is making a live action 1906 San Francisco earthquake movie unsuprisingly entitled 1906 (Disney/Pixar ponying up some money and CGI but Warner Bros. will pay for the rest and distribute). Andrew Stanton has been loaned to Walt Disney Pictures so that he can work on a planned trilogy of John Carter of Mars live-action movies.

Pete Docter just finished Up. I'm not sure what is next on his list.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Well, Up was only Docter's 2nd, and he did a marvelous job on both of his (each of them being the 2 that have made me cry the most). And it's not like they're just pulling some random Disney guys it seems. Toy Story 3 is being directed by Lee Unkrich, who has co-director credits on 3 Pixar films and editing credits on 6. That's a resume I'd feel confident about.

The screen play is from someone outside, with only one other writing credit, which is worrisome. But that other credit is Little Miss Sunshine, so barring a sophomore slump, I have hope.

I'm more worried about how tired I was of those characters after the first sequel, I'd be surprised to find myself interested in a 3rd go around.

[Alex]

Pete Docter just finished Up. I'm not sure what is next on his list.

The current rumor going is that Docter's next project will be Monsters, Inc. 2 for 2013.

On the one hand, if there is anybody I trust with sequels it is Pixar. On the other hand I'd still prefer they didn't and focused on developing new stuff.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Yeah, that's a disappointing # of sequels on the docket (3 of the next 6).