Toy Story 3 (movie)

Sony to distribute IMAX 3-D film 'Stalingrad' in Russia

2013-04-16 13:44:00

Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute "Stalingrad," the first Russian-made feature film to be shot in the�IMAX 3-D format, in the picture's home country. A teaser trailer for the film from director�Fedor Bondarchuk will be screened at...

Pixar and Disney animation president Ed Catmull discusses "Brave"

2012-05-30 19:08:00

The lush, verdant look of the Scottish highlands that serve as the backdrop for Pixar Animation Studio's forthcoming release, "Brave," was powered by new technology. But it also came with a heftier price tag than Pixar's 2010 box office smash, "Toy Story...

Reel China: U.S. film producers are engaging the Chinese

2011-08-24 07:00:00

China bought $91.9-billion worth of U.S. goods last year, including boatloads of medical devices, precious metals and electrical equipment. But when it comes to America's most celebrated cultural export — Hollywood movies — crossing China's...

Book Review: 'Walt Before Mickey' by Timothy S. Susanin

2011-05-31 00:00:00

When the extraordinary success of "Steamboat Willie" made Walt Disney an overnight sensation in 1928, he'd already spent nearly a decade working in animation. During those years, he'd had successes and failures, as Timothy S. Susanin recounts in great...

Indie Focus: Bill Plympton and animation for grown-ups

2010-10-17 00:00:00

Animated features have long been the favored medium for telling kid-friendly stories about princesses and cuddly creatures. But if New York-based animator Bill Plympton were to have his way, moviegoers would also see more hand-drawn offerings depicting...

Golden Globes shows love to 'The Social Network'

2011-01-16 00:00:00

"The Social Network" has a lot of friends in Hollywood. The drama about the creation of Facebook continued its winning ways Sunday, taking home four trophies at the 68th Golden Globes, including dramatic feature, director for David Fincher, screenplay...

Trent Reznor gets Oscar nomination for 'Social Network' score

2011-01-26 00:00:00

Industrial rockers, country songwriting veterans, India's soundtrack guru — the Oscar nominees in the music categories this year are as eclectic as an iPod on shuffle. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, nominated for original score for "The...

'The King's Speech,' 'True Grit' top Academy Award nominations

2011-01-25 06:46:00

"The King's Speech" dominated the Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, earning 12 nods including best picture and best lead actor for Colin Firth as King George VI, who battles to eradicate his stammer before he unexpectedly takes the throne. Joel and...

China is on a cinema-building binge

2011-03-06 00:00:00

Not long ago when Zhang Guomiao wanted to see a film, he'd head for the village square. There, itinerant cinema operators would unfurl a canvas screen, set up some static-filled speakers and show a grainy movie in the open air. "We had to bring our own...

'The Social Network' and 'The King's Speech' face off at the Academy Awards

2011-02-23 00:00:00

So will it be "The King's Speech" or "The Social Network" that wins the top prize Sunday at the 83rd Academy Awards? "The Social Network," the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the...

Critic's Notebook: Endless Oscar predictions, analysis take the fun out of the big night

2011-02-27 00:00:00

When it comes to the Oscars, both ways is the only way I want it. That phrase isn't mine — it's the title of an exceptional short story collection by Maile Meloy and a line from an A.R. Ammons poem — but I've borrowed it because it...

'The King's Speech' wins top Oscars

2011-02-25 15:07:26

"The King's Speech" was crowned best film at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday night. Nominated for 12 Oscars -- the most of any film -- it won four statuettes, including for Colin Firth for lead actor, Tom Hooper for director, and David Seidler for...

The highest-grossing animated film of all time, "Toy Story 3" was the seventh film to earn more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

2012-04-20 00:00:00

Famed Chicago film critic Roger Ebert was plenty vocal about this year's Oscars , taking to Twitter to criticize the writers, the host and even a music performance from Randy Newman . The latter sang his "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3," which everyone, with the exception of Oscar voters,

2011-02-27 19:38:51

Director Lee Unkrich , holding the Oscar for animated feature for "Toy Story 3," is reaping the reward, but did know that it would be a big chore. "When John Lasseter asked me to direct this movie, I was completely flattered, but then I wanted to throw up because I knew it was a huge, crushing

2011-02-27 00:00:00