Pete Docter

This month’s theme: Pixar. Today’s guest post by Jason Cuthbert features Carl Fredericksen from the 2009 movie Up, screenplay by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, story by Pete Docter & Bob Peterson & Thomas McCarthy. At some point in our lives we all seem to have that creepy isolated elderly neighbor whose cranky cold facial expressions remain frozen, even in the summer. We smile at them. Nothing. We attempt a conversation with them. Nothing. But before you start spreading the exaggerated gossip...Read Full Story

Disney’s been making all kinds of announcements lately about the future of their various brands, and while everybody is understandably flipping their wookiee wigs over Star Wars news, there’s another somewhat smaller project that we’ve also got our eyes on. That’s Pete Docter‘s Inside Out, a long gestating Pixar project about the inside of the human mind, which was tentatively revealed a few months ago to focus specifically on the mind of a little girl. John Lasseter spoke of Docter’s vision...Read Full Story

Today Disney Pixar announced that Inside Out, the new film from director Pete Docter, will open in US theaters on June 19, 2015. Very little is know about the film except the following: The inventive new film will take the audience to a place that everyone knows, but no one has ever seen: the world inside the human mind. The story will be told from the perspective of the emotions inside the mind of a little girl. Here is a list of the projects that Pixar has lined up until the release of...Read Full Story

Monsters, Inc. (2001) - John Goodman stars as the lovable James P. Sullivan (Sulley) and Billy Crystal as his wisecracking best friend, Mike Wazowski. Top scarer Sulley and his enthusiastic Scare Assistant Mike work at Monsters, Inc., the largest scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. The main power source of the monster world is the collected screams of human children. Monsters believe children are dangerous and toxic, however, and they are scared silly when a little girl wanders into...Read Full Story

Monsters, Inc. (2001) - John Goodman stars as the lovable James P. Sullivan (Sulley) and Billy Crystal as his wisecracking best friend, Mike Wazowski. Top scarer Sulley and his enthusiastic Scare Assistant Mike work at Monsters, Inc., the largest scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. The main power source of the monster world is the collected screams of human children. Monsters believe children are dangerous and toxic, however, and they are scared silly when a little girl wanders into...Read Full Story