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...Score one on the technical front for DreamWorks in its long, intense battle with its biggest rival, Pixar. Hollywood insiders love a fight, and it's almost surprising that no one has made a steel-cage movie called Pixar vs DreamWorks...
...dozen movies are slated to arrive this year, with dozens more in the works for 2010 and beyond. These are not just animations but live-action films, comedies, dramas and documentaries. Cameron is currently shooting a live-action drama, Avatar, for Fox in 3-D. Disney and its Pixar studio are releasing five 3-D movies this year alone, including a 3-D-ified version of Toy Story. George Lucas hopes to rerelease his Star Wars movies in 3-D. And Steven Spielberg is currently shooting Tintin in it, with Peter Jackson doing the 3-D sequel next year. Live...
...misery. Oil extraction is poor in Texas, restaurants in San Francisco are doing badly, and the peanut industry - let's not talk about the peanut industry. The Fed predicts things are going to get worse over the next year. Flip through this report, despair, then go watch a Pixar flick...
...directed the film under Burton's supervision. Selick next directed James and the Giant Peach, which managed to improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...
...success of Monsters, which is why DreamWorks is ponying up for the marketing blitz. Nearly five years ago, Katzenberg decided to put his money where his vision was and, starting with Monsters, committed to making all his company's animation in 3-D from the outset. While Disney's Pixar and others have also produced 3-D animation over the years, the special effect is typically added during postproduction. DreamWorks built its own 3-D-authoring software and hardware and, along with Intel and Hewlett-Packard, built a server farm that fills a room, floor to ceiling, the size...