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Universal is continuing to expand its Monsters universe in interesting ways by bringing in Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley to direct the family-friendly Little Monsters. To be clear, this is an original film, and not a reboot of the Howie Mandel / Fred Savage movie, which is a mistake I absolutely made. [caption id="attachment_787696" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Disney/Pixar[/caption] As reported by THR, the movie will be a live-action hybrid featuring characters from the entire history of Universal’s monster movies, based on designs by concept artist Crash McCreery. McCreery has worked on …
Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley has lined up another project. And this time, it’s live action. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Cooley has signed a deal to make Malamander for Sony Pictures. The project is based on a 2019 novel by British writer and illustrator Thomas Taylor, and according to the report “is set in Eerie-on-Sea, a seaside town filled with oddball characters and mysteries as murky as its winter fog.” The story follows a young boy named Herbert Lemon, who teams up with a young girl named Violet Parma, to look for the parents …
Fresh off winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley has been set to direct an animated Transformers prequel for Paramount and Hasbro’s entertainment studio eOne. The project was first revealed in September 2015, when Paramount tapped Ant-Man and the Wasp scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari to write a script that would function as an origin story set on Cybertron, home of both the Autobots and the Decepticons. The film is said to focus on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron, and it will be considered separate from the live-action …
This week, Pixar released the trailer for a new short film, Lamp Life, which is meant to serve as a prequel (of sorts) to the events of Toy Story 4. Choosing to focus on Bo Peep's (Annie Potts) story, this new short looks like it's gonna be all sorts of delightful. [caption id="attachment_869177" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Disney/Pixar[/caption] "Overall, life on a baby lamp isn't exciting," we hear Bo Peep tell Woody during their ferris wheel reunion. But, as the trailer teases, Bo Peep's life in the years since 1999's …
"Lamp Life," a short film coming exclusively to Disney+, will focus on Bo Peep's adventures in between the Toy Story 2 and last year's Toy Story 4.
After we all thought Toy Story 3 was the end of the franchise, Pixar came out with another. Let's look at the reasons why each is a strong ending. Aft
Pixar's trailer for their 10-episode Disney+ series, Forky Asks A Question, finds Forky asking some big, and even very silly, questions about life.
Despite Toy Story 4 being out since June, there are still some things you might not know about Buzz and Woody's latest adventure.
Keanu Reeves really got into playing Duke Caboom for Toy Story 4.