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The Mystery of Larry Wachowski

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:01:15 -0500

Could the co-creator of The Matrix's real life truly be stranger than fiction?

Ed Catmull: Pixar 's Superhero Shakes Up Disney

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:31:36 -0400

It's tempting to see "Cars," the seventh movie from Pixar Animation Studios, as a parable about the future of Walt Disney Co.

Early in the film, which opened Friday, a cocky race car named Lightning McQueen declares, "I'm a one-man show." But by the time the credits roll, McQueen realizes he's nothing without a great pit crew behind him.

It's a lesson that Ed Catmull, Pixar's co-founder and the new president of Disney Feature Animation, has built his career on.

Pixar's Magic Man

Tue, 16 May 2006 12:52:17 -0400

John Lasseter and his merry band of animators have a way with blockbusters. The master storyteller explains how he does it -- and how he plans to sprinkle some of that Pixar dust at Disney.

The Inside Track

Sat, 06 May 2006 23:58:37 -0400

If Mattel thought that its "Cars" Hot Wheels line was good enough, John Lasseter, the animated film's director, had a different message for the toy line's designers: At Pixar Animation Studios, good enough doesn't quite cut it.

Fabled Film Company May Get a Reanimator

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:26:40 -0500

Suddenly, John Lasseter is Walt Disney Co.'s $7.4-billion man.

Returning to the company where he worked more than 20 years ago as a low-level artist, computer animation's master storyteller faces a daunting task: how to merge his community of hit-making mavericks at Pixar Animation Studios with a more staid Disney animation group that has struggled for much of the last decade to regain its stride.

Antz vs. Bugs

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:07:11 -0500

The inside story of how Dreamworks beat Pixar to the screen

Top 12 Things A Klingon Programmer Would Say

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:40:02 -0500

12. Specifications are for the weak and timid!

11. This machine is a piece of gagh! I need dual processors if I am to do battle with this code!

10. You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you've read it in the original Klingon.

The Strange and Evil Tale of the Production of Superman V

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:26:57 -0500

I found this online: the stange and evil tale of the production of Superman V. It spans decades, $50,000,000 is spent before they even have even settled on a writer or director. It's so horrible. It's out of date as it stops in the middle of 2004, but it's so horrible, you have to read it.

Why Movie Theater Prices Are So High (and keep rising)

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:47:43 -0500

A ten-year theater manager explains why they charge $6 for a bucket of popcorn, why running a theater is a losing proposition, and why buying an overpriced soda gets you much more respect.

Welcome to Planet Pixar

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:45:24 -0400

How the pixel-packing upstart became an animation superpower and left Disney in the dust.

Holy Homosexuality, Batman!

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:00:04 -0400

Only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and the psychopathology of sex can fail to realize a subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventure of the mature 'Batman' and his young friend 'Robin.'

-- Frederic Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent

Independence Day For Transformers

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:26:10 -0500

Transformers, the long-planned, live-action movie based on the robot-morphing cartoon, comic and toy franchise, will roll into theaters July 4, 2007, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures announced Wednesday. Michael Bay (The Island, The Rock) will direct; Steven Spielberg will executive produce.

U.S. Dropped A-Bomb On Japan to Kill Godzilla!

Wed, 02 May 2007 17:07:13 -0400

Contrary to what most history books say, the U.S. military did not drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima simply to end World War 2, but mainly to destroy Japan's secret weapons -- Godzilla and Rodan!

Waiting for Spielberg

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:50:19 -0400

Merhan Karimi Nasseri has lived in a Paris airport for 15 years, and now Hollywood is knocking.

An Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:19:26 -0400

A comprehensive interview with Steve Jobs by The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program