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...respective genres, last week's top three all slipped down just one notch. Zombieland dropped a less-than-expected 39%; the surprise CGI-animation hit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs slipped a mere 24% to inch near the $100 million mark; and the 3-D double bill of Pixar favorites Toy Story and Toy Story 2 fell 39%. The weekend should reach a cumulative $100 million. That will leave the box office 8% ahead of last year in revenue and 4% ahead in attendance, making movies one of the few big businesses to flourish in the Great Recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Couples Fills a Vacuum | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...zombies but also by a CGI barrage of flying food and kids' playthings. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs continued its robust run, passing the $80 million mark on its third weekend. It came in second, immediately followed by Disney's 3-D release of those seminal Pixar buddy films, the 1995 Toy Story and the 1999 Toy Story 2. Playing at jacked-up prices on 1,745 screens, the Toy tandem earned $12.5 million to add to the $847 million (about $1.1 billion today) the two movies amassed in their original releases, plus the untold quillions in home-video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Zombie-ootiful! | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...outlandish situations. Nothing wrong with that; cartoon comedy is an honorable, entertaining and often artful confection and has been since the days of Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop and the sublime Daffy Duck. But animation can go deeper, have higher stakes. You see that impulse in parts of nearly every Pixar picture: the first sections of WALL-E and Up have an ambition, a gravity that stretches the format close to that nexus of graceful motion and deep emotion where just about every Miyazaki movie serenely resides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponyo: A Hit from the Creator of Spirited Away? | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...celebrates the quiet moments," says Miyazaki's No. 1 American fan, Pixar creative boss John Lasseter. "It's so rare - especially in Hollywood, where everything is bigger, louder, faster and more of it - to be brave enough to let it just quiet down." That's Miyazaki. Rather than being stocked with high-energy slapstick, his films proceed at a dream walker's pace. They're not dialogue-heavy; they're image-buoyant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponyo: A Hit from the Creator of Spirited Away? | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

This isn't just airy-fairy philosophy: it's real, and it works. A decade after Steve Jobs co-founded Apple, he was purged by his own board, but after the sense of betrayal passed, and he went on to build Pixar and oversee Apple's glorious renewal, he realized his personal reset had been a blessing in disguise. "The heaviness of being successful," Jobs has said of his firing, "was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." I happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Avenging Amateur | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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