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New Steve Jobs Book To Be Published March 24th

March 2, 2015 by Samad Rizvi 1 Comment

New Steve Jobs Book To Be Published March 24th

In the months following the tragic death of Steve Jobs in 2011, there was news of several books dedicated to retelling the story of the iconic figure’s life. The biggest book of them all, though, was Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson with the full cooperation of Jobs along with his family and colleagues.  Now, a new book is on the way, and again, the writers had inside access to those who collaborated with Jobs, including Pixar’s John Lasseter and Ed Catmull. Mossgreen Childrens Books can guide you how to publish book. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Apple, Becoming Steve Jobs, Bob Iger, Ed Catmull, Eddy Cue, John Gruber, John Lasseter, Jony Ive, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook

The Greatest Feat of ‘WALL-E’

May 20, 2014 by Josh Spiegel 1 Comment

The Greatest Feat of ‘WALL-E’

A few weeks ago, this column discussed the concept of risk-taking at Pixar Animation Studios. Recently, one of the studio’s head honchos, Ed Catmull, admitted that the growing reliance on creating sequels as well as original films is in part because sequels were financially less risky. Perhaps, when considering the cost of marketing as well as how much certain movies or characters make in merchandising, that may be true. But simply looking at the box-office takes of Pixar films proves that Catmull’s statement is faulty: as daring as their stories may be, no Pixar film can be categorized as a flop. As much as we may presume that original storytelling is riskier than relying on sequels in financial terms, at Pixar, it’s almost as if they can tell whatever stories they want and people will pay no matter what.

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Filed Under: Pixar Perspective Tagged With: Andrew Stanton, Disney, Ed Catmull, How to Train Your Dragon, Pixar, Ratatouille, Roger Deakins, Wall-e

The Pixar Perspective on Risk of Original Films vs. Sequels

April 29, 2014 by Josh Spiegel Leave a Comment

The Pixar Perspective on Risk of Original Films vs. Sequels

What separates Pixar Animation Studios from the rest of mainstream animation companies, as this column has mentioned plenty of times before, is its willingness to take a risk. In many ways, they’ve been operating under a system of risk from the very beginning, before they were even an established name in the TV-commercial business. The first major risk they overcame was the very acceptance by the public of computer animation being utilized for a feature film; in the intervening time, the biggest risks they overcame were story-based, as they pinned their hopes on movies about robots who don’t speak a discernible human language, a rat who wants to cook, and more. But in recent years, the risks they’ve run up against are, in some respects, of their own doing. To wit: how risky is it for Pixar to invest more heavily in the future on sequels than on new original films? Does the studio stand to lose its respect among the public by reviving old characters instead of creating new ones?

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Filed Under: Pixar Perspective Tagged With: Cars, Dreamworks, Ed Catmull, finding nemo, Inside Out, Original Films, Pixar, Sequels, Shrek, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Up, Wall-e

“Creativity, Inc,” New Book From Pixar President Ed Catmull Now Available

April 8, 2014 by Samad Rizvi 1 Comment

“Creativity, Inc,” New Book From Pixar President Ed Catmull Now Available

Pixar is one of the most secretive studios in Hollywood, and it is one of the few that is actually very good at maintaining that level of secrecy, an incredible feat for the age of the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter. Although we know the story about how the studio was formed and its process for developing films, there is quite a bit about the inner workings of Pixar that we still do not know. Today, a new book by Pixar’s president, Ed Catmull, was released, and it is packed with fascinating stories about the studio!

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Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Amy Wallace, Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull

The Real Reason Why Pixar Cancelled ‘Newt’ Revealed

March 19, 2014 by Samad Rizvi 6 Comments

The Real Reason Why Pixar Cancelled ‘Newt’ Revealed

Newt is the only announced Pixar feature film that failed to make it to theaters. Set to tell the story of a male and female newt forced together in order to extend their dying species, the film was being directed by Gary Rydstrom, who previously directed the short, Lifted. However, Newt was cancelled, which left eager fans, who had become caught up in the idea and gorgeous concept art, perplexed. The reason for why the film was cancelled has finally been revealed.

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Filed Under: newt Tagged With: Ed Catmull, Inside Out, newt, Newt Canceled, newt cancelled, newt pixar, Pete Docter, Ratatouille, Up

Ed Catmull: Pixar Has Made Mistakes

March 13, 2014 by Samad Rizvi 4 Comments

Ed Catmull: Pixar Has Made Mistakes

Creativity, Inc., the upcoming book from Pixar President (and studio co-founder) Ed Catmull, is set to be released next month, which has Catmull discussing his writing and contemplating his time at the famed animation studio. Yesterday, we shared a fantastic excerpt from the book discussing the Braintrust at the studio, which is so integral to the film development process. Today, read about his philosophy of mistakes, and his acknowledgment that Pixar has made some.

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Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull, Pixar Mistakes

Go Inside A Pixar Braintrust Meeting For Upcoming Film ‘Inside Out’

March 12, 2014 by Samad Rizvi 4 Comments

Go Inside A Pixar Braintrust Meeting For Upcoming Film ‘Inside Out’

The Pixar Braintrust is a respected group of directors, writers, and executives at the company who provide notes and advice to a film’s creative team during the development process. Consisting of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, and others, the group has been credited as one of the reasons for the studio’s success. In Catmull’s upcoming book, the president of the studio discusses the importance of the Braintrust by highlighting a meeting held to discuss Docter’s upcoming film, Inside Out!

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Filed Under: Inside Out Tagged With: Andrew Stanton, Brad Bird, Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull, Inside Out, Pete Docter

The Pixar Perspective on Loren Carpenter

January 14, 2014 by Josh Spiegel Leave a Comment

The Pixar Perspective on Loren Carpenter

As was discussed in this column throughout 2013, the year 2014 is going to be an interesting one for Pixar Animation Studios. We have to look well into 2015 for the company’s next feature, and between now and that time, there will only be more rampant speculation about the studio’s upcoming slate. (Here’s hoping, of course, that the neverending glut of Star Wars casting rumors as well as this or that Marvel movie’s unveiling overshadows everything out of Pixar, in case people spin it to the negative.) Last week, it was confirmed via Entertainment Weekly that this won’t be an entirely Pixar-free year: the short Party Central, from the Monsters University universe, will be attached to Muppets Most Wanted this March. The short has been ready for a long enough time that it was nearly included on the Monsters University Blu-ray, but its director, Kelsey Mann, mentioned in the article that the party’s bigness lends itself to a silver-screen presentation. Party Central continues a now-long line of Pixar films being extended into the world of shorts, and hopefully it fits well alongside Partysaurus Rex and Small Fry, among others.

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Filed Under: Pixar Perspective Tagged With: Disney, Ed Catmull, John Lasseter, Loren Carpenter, Lucasfilm, Pixar

Pixar Co-Founder Ed Catmull Provides Inside Look At Studio In Upcoming Book

November 14, 2013 by Samad Rizvi Leave a Comment

Pixar Co-Founder Ed Catmull Provides Inside Look At Studio In Upcoming Book

The history of Pixar is a tale that has been told often because of its incredible story. The studio was on the brink of failure for a number of years before the release of Toy Story catapulted the company into a serious player in Hollywood. Now, as a result of an incredible number of hits in its short history, there is no other studio that is held to higher standards than Pixar. There have been a few excellent books written on Pixar (e.g. The Pixar Touch), but they have always been authored by outside sources. Random House has announced that studio co-founder Ed Catmull has penned a book about the studio and it will be arriving in bookstores next year!

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Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull

The Pixar Perspective on the Pixar Canada Shutdown

November 5, 2013 by Josh Spiegel Leave a Comment

The Pixar Perspective on the Pixar Canada Shutdown

Watching business decisions get handed down from on high is always maddening, with the context for such choices being obscured from public view; all that can result is rampant speculation. So it is with the surprising announcement a few weeks ago from the Walt Disney Company that it was shutting down Pixar’s Canadian studio, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The studio, which employed over 100 animators, had worked primarily in shorts related to preexisting properties, such as the Toy Story shorts Small Fry and Partysaurus Rex, as well as some of the Cars shorts released straight to DVD and Blu-ray. As of now, one of the reasons being bandied about for why the shutdown occurred is that a number of the tax loopholes that existed in the past in Canada have been tightened, giving Disney less profit on this extension of one of their most financially fruitful branches.

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Filed Under: Pixar Perspective Tagged With: Buzz, Cars, Disney, Ed Catmull, Finding Dory, Inside Out, John Lasseter, Lone Ranger, Mater, Maters Tall Tales, Pixar, Planes, The Good Dinosaur, Toy Story, Woody

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