I have just gotten word that Walt Disney Pictures has cast Alfred Molina in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced The Sorcerer’s Apprentice . Nicolas Cage stars in a modern-day, New York City-set adaptation of the classic story from Fantasia. Jay Baruchel stars as Cage’s Apprentice, who gets in...

If you couldn’t already tell, I’m a Pixar fanatic. To me there is something so extremely special about the Emeryville-based animation studio’s special brand of storytelling. I remember being in Hall H at the 2007 San Diego Comic Con when Andrew Stanton unveiled the beginning of WAL...

Justin Marks has been hired by Disney to rewrite 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo , which McG is attached to direct. Marks is well known in Hollywood as a screenwriter who gets the geek niche, and has turned in drafts for Masters of the Universe, Super Max (The Green Arrow jailbreak movie)...

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...

As was rumored last week, Dreamworks has found a new home at Disney. The two companies have entered into a long term distribution agreement which will include six films a year. You can read the full press release after the jump. The Walt Disney Studios Enters Exclusive Long-Term Distribution Agreeme...

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 ...

While Steve Jobs' famed "reality distortion field" transformed, despite all odds, computers, music, movies and cell phones, it is his own body which has proven resistant to his formidable power to reshape the world. At each pass, he faced incredible skepticism; a rational analysis would have predict...

 "WALL-E" VOTED "BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR" BY THE LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS   Awards Edition :   "Wall-E" has also been nominated as "Best Picture" in the Critics' Choice Awards to be broadcast live on VH-1 on Thursday, January 8. Previously, it fought this Movie Smackdown against "Toy Story" ... ...

Earlier this week, I have th great oppurtunity to talk to Academy Award-winning animator and chief creative officer at Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, John Lasseter. While the phone call was primarily about Disney’s new release Bolt , we went off topic a couple of times and talked about IM...

Luxo Jr. Makes a Porno The Pitch: Mark J Grundy’s computer animated short film Pixar Piss Take spoofs the Pixar short that started it all, Luxo Jr. The official logline states “The little lamp discovers there’s more to life than just chasing balls!!” Possible NSFW, definitely...