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Pixar Schedules ‘Nemo’ Sequel for 2015

2, Apr 2013
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Time to add another sequel to Pixar’s schedule.

Following the Toy Story trilogy, Cars 2 and this year’s spinoff, Planes, plus the upcoming prequel Monsters University, Pixar is diving back into the ocean for yet another sequel, Finding Dory, a followup to their 2003 hit Finding Nemo.

Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres are back providing the voices for Marlin and Dory, respectively, and DeGeneres, for one, couldn’t be happier. “I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time,” she said. “I’m not mad it took this long. I know the people at Pixar were busy creating Toy Story 16. But the time they took was worth it. The script is fantastic. And it has everything I loved about the first one: it’s got a lot of heart, it’s really funny, and the best part is — it’s got a lot more Dory.”

Also back is director Andrew Stanton; having taken a live-action sojourn to Barsoom in the high-profile box office flop, John Carter, it will surely be good for him to get back into animation.

The sequel’s story will focus on reuniting the short-term memory-challenged Dory with her family. Giving a popular supporting character more time in the limelight sounds a lot like giving Mater the lead in Cars 2, but Pixar is definitely known more for their hits than their misfires. Finding Nemo won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and is still the fourth highest-grossing animated film of all time (not adjusting for inflation). It represents well on Flickchart, too, with a global ranking of #269, and third among Pixar films.

Finding Dory is currently slated for release on November 25, 2015, twelve and a half years after Nemo debuted.

via The Hollywood Reporter

John Carter: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

28, Mar 2012
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Disney’s John Carter has a lot going for it. Which makes it unfortunate that the film has such a big handicap: All John Carter wants to be is an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s A Princess of Mars, and on that front (though I’m not personally familiar with Burrough’s work), I think it succeeds. But despite the fact that the source material this film is based on is nearly 100 years old, many average film-goers are likely to experience the feeling that they’ve seen it all before.  Read the rest of this entry »

Reel Rumbles #37: “WALL·E” vs. “Up”

14, Jun 2011
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Almost everybody has their favorite film from Pixar Animation Studios. And it’s not surprising; no other studio has enjoyed Pixar’s mind-boggling brand of success. Of eleven feature films, every single one has been a hit. The master storytellers at Pixar have an uncanny knack for appealing to every demographic, and all of their films are true visual marvels. While at least half of their movies could be considered genuine masterpieces, all of them are at least above average (even Cars, which many might consider their most derivative and predictable work).

For me, the pick of the Pixar crop is Finding Nemo, the first movie I think of when I think of beautiful animation (an art form I’ve always loved, even in its current CGI phase), and a story that resonates for me personally, as a father. But there are two other Pixar masterpieces that vie for second place on my personal chart of the Best Pixar Animation Studios Films, and they are two of the studio’s most daring. Step into the Reel Rumbles ring for a journey into gorgeous visuals, thrilling adventure and powerful emotion as we pit WALL·E vs. Up.

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In Search of Best Picture

17, Feb 2011
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As the Oscar telecast creeps up on us again, it begs the question: How many times has the Academy really gotten this “Best Picture” thing right, anyway?

Think about it. How many controversial decisions are there in the Academy’s history? How many times is a movie other than Best Picture long remembered as the best of the year?

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Your Flickchart Top 20: Gift or Curse?

29, Mar 2010
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If you’re an avid Flickcharter, you’ve no doubt got a list of hundreds — if not thousands — of films ranked. From your all-time favorites to the dregs of cinema that you only wish you could un-see, to those middle-of-the-chart, ho-hum, so-so films whose ranks, while fun to try and get into their proper order, become somewhat interchangeable as they all share a common air of mediocrity.

Indeed, when it comes to your Flickchart, do you truly care whether Movie #667 is better than Movie #668? Does it even matter if Movie #236 is better than Movie #247?

What about global rankings? Does it matter to you if Flickchart’s users have V for Vendetta ranked higher than There Will Be Blood? Or that District 9 ranks higher than Best Picture Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker? Be honest: Does it really, really concern you that The Dark Knight outranks Star Wars as the #1 movie of all-time? As a movie fan, you know this fact to be either true or false; global rankings can be very useful in helping you find good movies that you haven’t seen yet, but when it comes to the films you do and don’t like, they aren’t necessarily going to sway your opinion.

In fact, I’d be willing to bet that, for most Flickcharters, the only list that really matters is that one that stares you in the face every time you come to the site: your personal Top 20. It’s the list that’s on-screen every time you rank; either causing you to constantly question it, or reaffirm that yes, yes these are, in fact, my favorite movies of all-time. The cream of the crop. The films that will smack down any others they come against in your Flickchart rankings.

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