Last week Brad Bird revealed that he was still trying to crack the screenplay for his live-action debut 1906 , which seemed baffling to us. In March 2008, our spies told us that Pixar was busy building virtual scale models of a period-era San Francisco and that Warner Bros had put a hold on all of t...

We haven’t heard much lately about Brad Bird’s live-action debut, a big screen adaptation of James Dalessandro’s novel 1906 .  Our friends at LatinoReview caught up with Bird at the premiere of Coraline, and was able to get an update. “We’re looking at places to shoot ...

Longtime friend of Henry Selick, Brad Bird was on hand tonight at the Portland premiere of “Coraline”, treating MTV News to updates on his first live-action feature, “1906” and updating us on the status of “Toy Story 3.” “The best way to sum up ["1906”...

Filed under: Animation, New Releases, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Scripts, Newsstand, Politics A couple of people have been griping about Wall-E director Andrew Stanton's refusal to admit that his cute little movie about a robot in love actually contains some pretty upfront green polit...

Jim Hill reviews this new DreamWorks Animation release, which opens in theaters nationwide tomorrow...(read more) This is a summary only, for more in depth info about the Walt Disney Company and the Entertainment Industry in general, visit JimHillMedia.com....

This week The McKinsey Quaterly asks: what does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? Apparently, a lot. In Innovation lessons from Pixar, McKinsey writes: Brad Bird makes his living fostering creativity. Academy Award-w...

Filed under: Animation, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Remakes and Sequels This news the other day about Pixar making a sequel to the milquetoast Cars really bothers me. I mean, Cars ? Seriously? Yawwwwwwwn. Of all the films they've made over there, that's the last one I want to see a sequel to. And now, ...

About 68 minutes into a 103 minute 2005 Pixar lecture from the Computer History Museum (found via UpcomignPixar), writer/director Brad Bird (Ratatouille, The Incredibles) ranted passionately about how technology and convenience is ruining the theatrical experience: “I hope that [the theatrical exp...

I was delighted to see that Brad Bird won the Academy Award last night for directing Ratatouille. It is a great movie. And as I wrote her last week in my post on Bring Me Your Black Sheep, we were lucky  enough to interview him a couple weeks back. I found him to both charming and creative, wit...

SHORT REVIEW: The best performance by a rat since An Inconvenient Truth . This film about a talking rat who knows how to cook and helps a hapless young man learn the craft is much m ore subdued than the other Pixar efforts. While there's nothing necessarily wrong with a toned down kid's movie, this ...