Tada, it’s the trailer for Toy Story 3. Probably none of the creative team actually wanted to make a Toy Story 3, but then your mom probably doesn’t like blowing dudes on the corner either. …Okay, bad example. Point is, money. Anyway, forced to come up with a plot, it seems Disney-Pixar stole a page from the Transformers 2 playbook, in that the story begins with the kid about to go off to college. What are his old toys to do now that he no longer needs them? But rather than crying or humping Megan Fox’s leg or perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes, the toys get sent off to a daycare center, where they get yanked and sucked and licked and fondled roughly against their will — pretty much like an evening at Roman Polanski’s house. HEYO! Haha, good one, Jay. So then, the toys decide to escape the daycare center, and yadda yadda yadda, Tim Allen becomes Mexican. Trust me, it doesn’t seem nearly as racist as it did in person.
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This one’s called The Adventures of Andre and Wally B, Pixar’s first animated short from 1984. Well, not Pixar exactly since it was done mainly at Lucasfilm, but the creative team did include John Lasseter and some of the Pixar heavies. It’s hard to envision the promise they would later show from this, but keep in mind this was made in 1984, so creating it probably took three flatbeds filled with punchcards, adhesive glue, and a live chicken.
If you’ve seen Up, you know it comes attached to a short called Partly Cloudy, one of the most insanely creative things I’ve ever seen. 
It’s about clouds who synthesize kitties and puppies and give them to storks, who… oh just watch it after the jump, there’s no way to explain it. But not to be outdone, Dreamworks animation has announced their next project.
The project, referred to internally as “Boo U.,” recently picked up writer Jon Vitti (”The Simpsons Movie”), who will pen the screenplay. The story line centers on a ghost who is bad at his job and must return to ghost school. [THR]
Haha, ghost school! WTF?!? LOL!!1! You’ve done it again, Salieri!
Pixar kept it real yet again over the weekend, with Up taking $68.2 million, Pixar’s third biggest opening ever (behind The Incredibles and Finding Nemo) and the fourth biggest opening of ‘09 (behind Star Trek, Wolverine, and 4 Fast 4 Fourious).
Sam Raimi’s similarly well-reviewed Drag Me to Hell earned $16.6 mil and landed in number three (behind Night at the Museum 2) - solid business unless you consider that it was $5 million less than The Strangers made on the same weekend last year. Of course, The Strangers, who could forget The Strangers. Who the f*ck was in that again?
Terminator Salvation is now down $14 million from Terminator 3: That One with the Chick. Ouch. Don’t get me wrong, TermSalv was sucky, but it wasn’t that sucky. The numbers for Angels & Demons were also way off the Da Vinci Code, so hopefully we can expect Tom Hanks to take off his Nic Cage wig (and forehead) any day now and get back to being a respected actor again. A freakishly creaseless forehead is the first segno of a career on decline. See also: Cage, Bob Thornton. (full top 10 after the jump)
Well folks, I love to rag on Hollywood for being out of ideas, but credit where credit’s due, this weekend there are two big movies opening, and they’re tracking 98 and 94% recommended on rottentomatoes, respectively, which is better than any damn weekend I can remember (that’s fancy writer talk for “I don’t want to look it up”).
Up
I bow before Pixar. You haters can over-politicize it all you want, but Wall E was one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last few years. And by many accounts, Up is just as good. How do they do it? I hear they bathe in the blood of Christian babies. It’s true. I read that somewhere.
Drag Me to Hell
The trailer may not look like much, but keep in mind this is Sam Raimi we’re talking. Throw out emo Spider-Man and you’ve got movies like Spider-Man 2 (possibly my favorite comic-book movie) and Army of Darkness (GRR, CHAINSAW HAND). Plus, everyone says it’s good. And who are you to argue with everyone? You’re just some asshole on a computer.
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