Enrico’s blog

My very good friend Rodrigo Blaas is not only one of the top animators here at Pixar, he’s also an amazing director! Here’s his blog with a teaser for his beautiful short “Alma”. I hope you get a chance to see this short on the festival circuit and maybe soon on the itunes store too!

This fantastic trailer for the upcoming videogame made by Passion Pictures just knocked my socks off!!! Amazing!!! Our uber talented friend Robert Valley surely worked on this, his style is all over it.

UP is about to hit theaters in the US. We’re pretty excited around here. The first weekend of a film release is quite an interesting experience for its crew, as of course you hope and wish for the movie you are so proud of to get a significant reception in Theaters. If the public’s response will be anything like the critic’s we’d be in decent shape.
And here’s a silly drawing for you … I did this a few years back as an idea for a story team t-shirt. We went for another design, but this is still pretty funny.

The trailer for “Nine” the musical (not to be mistaken for the animated movie, which also looks cool) looks pretty darn interesting. A Felliniesque musical? I’m fully intrigued. The cast is impressive and so is the beautiful photography.

/film has posted a nice gallery of photos from the Up production, ranging from stills from the movie to the research trip to Venezuela. Also more reviews are starting to appear everywhere on the web, " onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outbound/www.variety.com/review/VE1117940233.html?categoryid=2531_038_cs=1_038_nid=2854_br_/');">here’s the one from Variety. The film is set to have its world premiere in Cannes tomorrow!

It’s on the Time’s website. A rave review. Read it here if you don’t mind reading reviews before seeing the movie. I can’t wait for all of you out there to discover this amazing film. We are so proud of it here.

Some oldies

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Finally Amazon has the Venice Chronicles in stock again … for the cost conscious, and who is not lately, it’s still the best deal you can find. And don’t miss this other wonderful book, Fio’s favorite!

The Eisner Award voting process has started today. If you enjoyed The Venice Chronicles and are an industry professional please go to this link and vote for the book. thank you!