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Weekend Box Office – CARS 2 Scores $68 Million Win; BAD TEACHER Overachieves with $31 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: June 26th, 2011 at 9:28 am

After posting a strong start on Friday, Cars 2 went on to finish the weekend with an estimated $68 million from its 4,115 locations.  That was more than double what its closest competitor, Bad Teacher, took in; but not quite enough to get the sequel higher than fifth place on the list of All-Time Pixar Studio champions.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Cars 2	$68,000,000	$68
2	Bad Teacher	$31,000,000	$31
3	Green Lantern	$18,350,000	$89.3
4	Super 8	$12,100,000	$95.1
5	Mr. Popper’s Penguins	$10,300,000	$39.4
6	X-Men: First Class	$6,600,000	$132.8
7	The Hangover Part II	$5,865,000	$232.9
8	Bridesmaids	$5,372,000	$146.6
9	Pirates of the Caribbean 4	$4,700,000	$229
10	Midnight in Paris	$4,480,000	$28.5

US Postal Service Releasing Pixar Stamps in 2011

by Jason Barr    Posted: December 28th, 2010 at 3:10 pm

Pixar Animation Studios classics like Toy Story, Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, and Cars will soon be commemorated with their own unique stamp designs in 2011.  Citing Pixar’s “exciting, contemporary characters and strong themes involving family and friends,” the United States Postal Service will begin circulating the “Send a Hello” stamps on August 19th, 2011.

To check out the official USPS release and to catch a glimpse of the five designs, hit the jump.

A Map of the Best Movies of All Time

by Germain Lussier    Posted: June 12th, 2010 at 6:27 pm

Now here’s a subway we’d all like to take.  It seems a website called Vodkaster has created “The Best Movies Of All Time Map” much in the vein of those Lord of the Rings Flow Charts/Maps that circulated around the web a few months ago (we missed it).  It’s incredibly cool and detailed, even if the stops along the way don’t exactly make the most sense.

Starting with a series of “Universally Acclaimed Masterpieces” in the middle, such as Seven Samuari, Star Wars and Citizen Kane, it then branches off into sub genres such as the broad “Drama” and “Comedy,” to more specific ones like “Masterpiece about show business” and “Drama about tolerance.”

Hit the jump to look at the huge image.

Homage to WALL-E, STAR TREK, SPIDER-MAN, GONE WITH THE WIND (and More!) on THE SIMPSONS

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: March 26th, 2010 at 11:14 am

The Simpsons is still plenty capable of putting together a very entertaining half hour over two decades into its run, and this Sunday’s episode “Stealing First Base” was particularly suited for film geeks.  First, the episode’s delightfully gruesome “Itchy & Scratchy” short serve as an extended parody of the Philip Glass-scored Koyaanisqatsi as well as a brief mocking of 3D.  Later, a Bart kiss inspired a montage of famous romantic scenes in film history–including Spider-Man, WALL·E, Planet of the Apes, and Star Trek among others–which itself was a take on a reminiscent scene in Cinema Paradiso in borrowing Ennio Morricone’s beautiful “Love Theme” from the film.

Hit the jump to check out the clip and a list of the movies referenced. [via Upcoming Pixar]

Awesome Fake Video Games: Atari 2600 Covers Based on Modern Movies Like AVATAR, THE DARK KNIGHT, WALL-E

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 7th, 2010 at 10:30 am

Now this is just awesome.  Someone at penneydesign has imagined what modern movies and TV shows would have looked like as video games if they had been made back in the late ’70′s.   While they designed the game covers for a fake system called the CVS 2600  Cartridge Video System, it’s clear the covers are designed for the Atari 2600.  The fake games are Batman: The Dark Knight, Cloverfield, James Cameron’s Avatar, Lost, Prison Break, Snakes on a Plane, The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and Wall-E.

What’s also great about the covers is the way they’ve added fake stickers, price tags and writing.  On The Dark Knight cover the writing says:

David & Mary Merry XMas ’78.  This is to share! Love Aunt Julie

If you ever played the Atari 2600 or just want to see some awesome fake video game covers, hit the jump.

UP soars at Annies…Oscar(s) Next?

by Keith Demko    Posted: February 7th, 2010 at 9:08 am

Kung Fu Panda may have knocked out Wall-E at last year’s Annie Awards, but Pixar got its revenge Saturday night with Up taking the top two awards, for Best Animated Feature and Directing in a Feature Production for Pete Docter.

However, Henry Selick’s Coraline and Disney’s The Princess and The Frog (both of which this writer liked more than Up – hate if you must) topped Up‘s total, taking home three Annies each. And the most deserved award of all? In my opinion it’s certainly Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach for Writing in a Feature Production for the wildly witty Fantastic Mr. Fox.

And Up, of course, is up for an impressive two-fer when the Oscars are handed out March 7, being nominated for both Best Picture and Best Animated Picture (only the second animated movie to score a Best Picture nod, after Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.) There’s always a chance the two could cancel each other out, but I wouldn’t bet against Pixar in at least the animated category.  Hit the jump to see a full list of winners at the Annie Awards.

Eight Amazing Retro Posters for Pixar’s UP

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm

To celebrate the release of Pixar’s “Up” on DVD and Blu-ray on November 10^th, eight gorgeous retro-style posters for the film have been released.  Your wall space and my wall space crave them.  I’m assuming these posters were also done by Eric Tan (who did these retro-style posters for “Wall-E” as well as other movies which you can see on his site), since I know he did the one featuring Muntz’ evil pups.

While the one I want the most is not included in this set, I still want all eight of these.  Sadly, I have no idea where you and I can buy them.  You can check out the full set after the jump. [UPDATE! You can buy the posters here.  Also--they're signed.  I'm going to dig through my couch cushions to see if there's the $145 I need to get the Dug poster.] [2nd UPDATE! It's been brought to my attention that Eric Tan did "Journey into the Wild", Craig Foster Did "SAA: South American Air", Erik Evans did "Paradise Falls", and the other five are by Paul Conrad.  Only Eric Tan's posters (including ones not in this set) are available at Acme Archives Direct]

Pixar’s Angus MacLane Interview – Backstage at the 2009 Saturn Awards

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: June 29th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

At last week’s Saturn Awards, I was able to speak with Pixar’s Angus MacLane after “Wall-e” won for Best Animated Film. In case you’re not familiar with Angus’ work, he’s been an animator on eight of Pixar’s movies. Also, he’s directed a short (“Burn-E”) and been a storyboard artist on a few other films as well. Basically, he’s worked on many films that you love.

Anyway, after “Wall-E” won, I was able to speak with Angus backstage and we talked about “Wall-e”, “Toy Story 3″, why Pixar makes such great films, and a lot more. Also, he told me where you can get some very cool and very limited “Wall-e” posters…so take a look:

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