SF News Day Around the Bay: Pixar Series Sees Trans Storyline Axed The SFPD has made arrests in two recent homicides; Disney is cutting a trans storyline out of a Pixar series that was made for Disney+; and Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a bird flu emergency.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Laying Off More Workers Just as 'Inside Out 2' Becomes Its Highest-Grossing Film Ever In an unfortunate turn of events, Pixar is continuing with layoffs at its Emeryville animation studio in the same month that its latest release is smashing box office records and raking in cash at theaters worldwide.
Business & Tech Pixar Hit With Layoffs Affecting 14% of Its Staff As parent company Disney pushes for budget cuts, Pixar Animation Studios is going forward with some previously announced layoffs, primarily impacting staff working on series production for Disney+.
Arts & Entertainment Former Pixar Screenwriter Says 'The Holdovers' Was Plagiarized From Something He Wrote The Oscar-winning film 'The Holdovers,' which stars Paul Giamatti and is set at a New England boarding school in the 1970s, is brazenly similar to a screenplay that a former Pixar writer penned and shopped around Hollywood in recent years, that writer says.
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming ‘Toy Story’ Prequel Has Disney’s First Ever Same-Sex Kiss — Because Bay Area Pixar Employees Fought For It Disney removed a same-sex kissing scene from the upcoming ‘Toy Story’ installment ‘Lightyear,’ but an uproar from artists at Emeryville-based Pixar got that gay kiss right back into the animated feature film.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 2022 Features Vinsantos, Two Margaret Cho Flicks, and Disney’s First Same-Sex Kiss in ‘Lightyear' Disney-Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ will make Frameline history as the first Disney feature with a same-sex kiss, plus a Vinsantos documentary and two Margaret Cho features round out the just-announced LGBTQ+ film festival schedule.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar's 'Onward' to Stream on Disney+ April 3, Download for Purchase Tonight The latest Disney-Pixar animated release, Onward, is one of dozens of scheduled Hollywood releases this spring that are getting impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. And in this case, Disney's decided to let it go straight to streaming.
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist Sues Pixar For Copying Her Unicorn-Painted Van In New Film 'Onward' A San Francisco-based tattoo artist who once lent her "tremendously cool" van with a unicorn mural on the side of it to Pixar is now suing the Disney-owned animation studio for copying her "superlative work of automotive art" in an upcoming film without her permission.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Drops Full-Length Trailer For 'Toy Story 4,' Featuring Forky the Spork After months of anticipation and a teaser that introduced a new character — a spork with arms and googly eyes — Disney-Pixar has finally let us see the full-length trailer for 'Toy Story 4.'
Arts & Entertainment 'Cars 3' Grows Up With Its Audience I have a theory that I've, admittedly, not really done much to prove aside from talking to friends with kids: Pixar's Cars movies are the ones parents like the least, while their (often
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Drops 'Dante's Lunch,' A Short Video About A Hairless Dog We've already talked about Coco, Disney-Pixar's latest animated feature about a 12-year-old, guitar-playing Mexican boy named Miguel who dreams of becoming a musician and, via a magical guitar and a set of supernatural
Arts & Entertainment Pixar's Latest Animated Feature 'Coco' Is Set In Mexico With Lots Of Day-Of-The-Dead Magic The teaser trailer for Disney-Pixar's latest animated feature, Coco, has just been released, and the film tells the tale of a 12-year-old, guitar-playing Mexican boy named Miguel who dreams of becoming a musician
Arts & Entertainment Video: How All Pixar Movies Are Connected The animated films of Pixar are all rich with details that reward multiple viewings, and for years fans have exchanged the small clues online that suggest that all of the movies are somehow
Arts & Entertainment Video: Disney-Pixar's Adorable Short 'Piper' Now Watchable For Free Die-hard Pixar fans who saw Finding Dory in the theater were already treated to this animated short, the latest quiet masterpiece by Disney-Pixar and the team of writer-director Alan Barillaro, producer Marc Sondeimer,
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Short 'Borrowed Time' By Pixar Animators Is Lovely, Sad, Not For Kids Made during their spare time at Pixar over the course of five years, animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj's "Borrowed Time," a tragic but poignant six-minute short, was just released to the public,
Arts & Entertainment Friends, Family, And Growing Up: <i>Finding Dory</i>, Reviewed In my list of favorite Pixar movies, 2003's Finding Nemo is closer to the bottom than the top. Not because it's bad — it's actually pretty great — more because I never really felt a
Arts & Entertainment Of Course, Pixar Won Another Oscar, For 'Inside Out' In case you hadn't heard or didn't watch the 88th annual Academy Awards last night, you should know that odds-on favorite Pixar won the award for Best Animated Feature for the eighth time
Arts & Entertainment An Extraordinary Thing: Inside Out It's basically a given that if the movie comes from Pixar, I'm going to be crying at some point. Maybe within the first 10 minutes (Up); or closer to the end (Toy Story
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: 'Congratulations, San Francisco, You've Ruined Pizza' In their first feature film since 2013's Monsters University, Emeryville-based Pixar takes a swing at the unlikeliest of foes: San Francisco pizza. According to Pixar's press materials, their upcoming animated feature Inside Out
SF News Day Around The Bay: Watch Out For The 420 Games Like they did during the drought in the 70s, state officials began building an emergency, 40-foot-tall, $40 million rock wall to prevent saltwater intrusion into the Sacramento River Delta. [Chron] The 420 Games
Arts & Entertainment Pixar's 'Inside Out' Trailer Pokes Fun At SF Bears, Pizza Coming June 19, the newest Disney/Pixar flick from writer-director Peter Docter (previously of Up, which, yes, was adorable) takes place in San Francisco. Of course, being CGI, Inside Out wasn't exactly shot
Arts & Entertainment Teaser Arrives For Pixar's 'Inside Out' It's not due in theaters until June 2015, but here's the first teaser trailer for Pixar's seriously conceptual new animated movie, Inside Out. It tells the story of the five emotions living inside
SF News Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion; George Lucas Passes 'Star Wars' on 'To a New Generation of Filmmakers' George Lucas has just sold out to Disney, ladies and gentlemen, for the tidy sum of $4.05 billion in stock and cash. The deal, announced just minutes ago, represents Lucas' desire to
SF News DreamWorks Opens Massive New Redwood City Campus DreamWorks Animation, the digital animation studio co-founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen and based in Glendale, has about 600 employees in the Bay Area. For a while now they've spread
misc NYT Reporter Tours Pixar Campus, Wets Herself The New York Times sent Carpetbagger writer Melena Ryzik on a tour through Pixar in Emeryville, and she gushes, "Pixar's about as a cool a place to work as anyone can imagine!" Why
