Pixar wins lifetime award at Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival's red carpet was festooned with balloons on Sunday to mark the lifetime achievement award for director and producer John Lasseter and his crew of Pixar directors.

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SEC drops case against Google director Mather

The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its stock option backdating case against Ann Mather, a Google Inc. board member since November 2005 and former chief financial officer of Pixar Animation Studios.

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Review: ‘Up’ flies high, but not without bumps

For any run-of-the-mill movie studio, “Up” would represent a major achievement. But this is Pixar we’re talking about — and I would unhesitatingly place “The Incredibles” and “Toy Story 2” on my list of the greatest movies ever made by anyone, anywhere, anytime — and so the standards have to be a little tougher.

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Curtain `Up': Cannes opens with animated adventure

After nine hits and four Academy Awards for films including "WALL-E" and "Ratatouille," the Pixar Animation gang finally feels it has made it to the grown-ups' table with "Up," the first animated movie to open the Cannes Film Festival.

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`Up' with Pixar: `WALL-E' makers offer sneak peek

With such smash hits as "WALL-E," "Ratatouille" and "The Incredibles" behind them, the master storytellers at Pixar Animation figured they had nowhere to go but "Up."

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Pixar Animation pioneer Catmull earns Oscar

One of the digital wizards behind such cartoon smashes as "WALL-E," "Ratatouille" and "Finding Nemo" is getting an Academy Award.

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SEC charges of stock option abuse loom for former Pixar CFO

The former chief financial officer of hit movie maker Pixar Animation Studios is facing a possible legal battle with securities regulators for alleged mishandling of stock options, according to documents filed Monday.

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Pixar Perfectionists Cook `Ratatouille'

Pixar Animation will serve no rodent before its time.

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Mickey has become more of a corporate symbol than a beloved character for recent generations of young people, Disney is taking the risky step of re-imagining him for the future.

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Disney is forever synonymous with cartoons and animation, and while the recent Pixar films (Pixar is owned by Disney) have gathered critical acclaim, they're still a far cry from some of the best Anime movies ever made.

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It's possible that someone caught an accidental glimpse of an upcoming Pixar project about a boy and his dinosaur.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its stock option backdating case against Ann Mather, a Google Inc. board member since November 2005 and former chief financial officer of Pixar Animation Studios.

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Up: The Must See Family Movie of The Year!

If you have not seen this movie yet, trust me, you should. When you do, prepare to be entertained. Prime your funny bone because it will be working overtime.

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10 year old Colby Curtin, who was diagnosed with vascular tumor in 2005, hung on to her dear life just to watch the Pixar's Movie entitled " Up".

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Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old girl suffering from terminal vascular cancer, told her mom that she wanted to live to see Pixar's Up. But before she could visit the theater, her condition became too unstable for her to be moved.

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HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie. From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it.

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Dear Pixar, This is not an angry letter. It is especially not an angry letter about Up, which I adored. I could have sat in the theater and watched it two more times in a row. I cried, but I also laughed so hard in places that it wore me out.

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With "Up," the studio once again shows how little things can make a very big movie.

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In today's post-Pixar age, anyone who believes that animated movies can't appeal to a broad range of ages is wilfully ignoring the rich, rewarding work that's out there.

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Ed Asner provides the voice,Pixar provides the animation.This will be a major money maker. The plot is borrowed from the man in Oregon who attached helium balloons to a lawn chair. In this case, 10,000 balloons are attached to a house which is enroute to South America.

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The trailer for Disney and Pixar's new film: Up

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Wall-E, one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing movies of 2008, is widely seen as a shoo-in nominee -- if not winner. But less clear is which among the remaining, unlucky 13 will be nominated alongside the Pixar pic.

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Financial news and data services company Bloomberg accidentally published through its wire service yesterday afternoon a 17-page (!) obituary for Pixar co-founder and current Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

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When I was a kid, I used to make crude little animated cartoons in my notebooks using the flipbook technique. Walt Disney had nothing to worry about. I was awful even by the 3rd grade standards of White Pine elementary.

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It appears that IMDb might have been Hacked.

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Angus MacLane, the supervising animator on Wall E, talks about the secrets of Pixar, the joys of Lego, R2D2 and his love for James Camerons' Aliens...

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He's cute. He's cuddly. He has the power to make grown women weep with little more than a longing gaze. Like Jesus Christ and E.T.

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A criminal probe of Apple Inc.'s co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs over stock options tampering is now over, but the potential legal shadow over him and the company isn't going away just yet.

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Reviews Without Pity: WALL-E

In, WALL-E, this summer's big budget kids' movie, Pixar unsurprisingly proves yet again that it's really the only division of the modern Disney empire still worth a damn. (Sorry, Hannah.)

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Jerry Herman, eyes welling with tears, could hardly believe what he was hearing as he watched the new animated blockbuster "Wall-E."

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Movie Re-haiku: "Wall-E"

Note: spoilers within Do not read if you've not seen But please, read later! Lovable robot Trapped alone on the earth Watching his movies Along comes new 'bot Sleeker sexier new model Wall-E is smitten

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"It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment."

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