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[Captain Pan]

and as a result Pixar has been given this movie its First Death Nail...

This Could be the first Mistake from the Office of Lasseter! And I hope its his only one!

I think Up will do better in October rather than trying to compete with Summer movies to be honest (isn't there a Harry Potter film out this Summer?). They delayed Ratatouille till October and it still did well in the UK, got good reviews and did ok on DVD. It all makes fairly good business sense for them....

...It's annoying when you realise the bottom line at Disney is money.

Well You can also notice how Disney know absolutly nothing about the UK and its School Scheduling as they've gone and put it a Week Earlier than Actual Half Term!

Half Term (with the exception of once) has ALWAYS fallen either on or around my Birthday... With Half Term for the vast Majority of the country expected to start on October 26th Disney have mucked it up again when Release should be October 23rd if they wish to grab the audience properly!

Don't forget this has vast complications and will impact with Disney's Release of Christmas Carol, and then the Princess and The Frog...


Who wants to watch Daniel Ratcliffe and a bunch of Wooden Acting?
The Movies aren't as good as the Books, and Never will be... No matter how much they spend on them, and I will be suprised if Half Blood Prince doesn't get a 12A rating
also I can already tell you the Ending...

[spoiler:34xd4ufv]Can't Be that mean... But a Wizard Dies[/spoiler:34xd4ufv]

There is two warnings to Lasseter and his teams at Pixar and Disney... Provide me with something Meaningful for my Payment of Cinema Ticket... Something MORE than Partly Cloudy... Something the US won't get till Christmas...

And...

Even Contemplate making me wait more than 3 months for Toy Story 3 and There will be more than one very Irate fan at the Studio Doors in Emeryville... Emeryville won't exist anymore...

Pan is getting Dark Right Now... and No-one will want to see him go Scarlet!

[TowMater]

Saw the trailer this morning before Bolt, It's got some humour in it, The old fella reminds me of a friend of mine    (Don't tell my friend I said that!) So it is going to look promising.

[penfold12]

It is released in half term in my part of the country, the Friday that the schools break up.

Infact this is Disney returning to their old marketing. All the "Second Golden Age" movies from The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast etc were released after their USA release, and in October around half term.

The stopped releasing at this time, after they ramped up production, and released the films more often.

[penfold12]

I wonder if moving the release to autumn is a reaction to what is, Relativly Wall.e's poor performance internationally? It did great sales, over three hundred million, but both Kung Fu Panda & Madagascar 2 did over four hundred million. With Wall.e beating both of them in the USA, and Ratatoullie doing so well in Europe last Autumn, I would imagine the same was expected from Wall.e

[The Butlin Boy]

Say hello to the doggie star of UP:



   

 :arrow: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53126

[Anthony]

Full UP trailer!!

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/up/trailer-b

Now I'm excited. :mrgreen: The dog is hilarious!

[The Butlin Boy]

Pixar have just made another hit :mrgreen:

The film looks brilliant, I can't wait to see it. Like Ant said, I love the idea behind the dog, something only Pixar could do

[Captain Pan]

Thats like So Totally Wicked!

Nicely clipped advert, not to much in the form of story released want to know who the dude in the Blimp is now... Enoough Enigma for me to be happy... but I don't think its enough to keep me entertained till October 16th...

[peep]

Gah, do we really have to wait till October. This is torture Disney!

That trailer makes it look even better than I had even anticipated.

[Soap]

Wow didn't expect this....a nice surprise!  :shock:

[Captain Pan]

BBC have confirmed the October 16th release date for the UK whilst posting this...
//http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7952692.stm

Up, the latest animated feature from Disney/Pixar, will launch this year's Cannes Film Festival on 13 May.
The world premiere will be screened in digital 3-D and marks the first time an animated movie has opened the event.

Up's World Premiere will be done during the Imfamous Cannes Film Festival, and not only will it premiere... but its the OPening Movie, the first to ever do it...

Now that sounds impressive for a "kids" film...

Also the fact that

Organisers have yet to confirm whether the film will be in competition at the festival, which runs until 24 May.

Now if it doesn't recieve nomination for the Palme d'Or  there'll be no outcry from me personally, Just to Open the Festival is a feather in the cap of the Movie!

[Anthony]

Wow, opening Cannes is quite an honour... I suppose. Although they seem to have had every awful Dreamworks ever created playing there, from Shrek to Shark Tale.

And... the UP website is up! http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/up/

I'm not quite sure I like the very stylised backgrounds we've seen so far. It just looks empty. Hopefully it's just a teaser.

[Luigi]

i like the website so far, but it still in progress it seems, no videos and extras so far, but it say coming soon.

[Aveen2008]

I only got to see Bolt last Saturday and seen the trailer for UP before it. I am unsure about this film, it could be great though. To be honest the trailer wouldn't make me want to run and see it but I don't want to be too negative about it until I have seen it when it's released. :?

[Anthony]

This is being reported a few places today:

Wall Street analysts and toy retailers down on Pixar's Up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr ... ey-company

"Tale of a septuagenarian adventurer who travels to South America by attaching balloons to his house is slammed by industry watchers for not being commercial enough"

But what's bad for Disney's stock seems to be very good for their audience perception. Scroll down and read the comments, it only seems to create a bigger gap between Pixar and their rivals.

And Iger comes in with the quote-of-the-decade:

Disney chief executive, Robert A Iger, said the company was focused on delivering "great films", rather than adopting a blind adherence to commercial pressures. "If a great film gives birth to a franchise, we are the first company to leverage such success," he said. "A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure."