With 'Hoppers,' Pixar looks to boost its original animated films

In 2020, "We Bare Bears" creator Daniel Chong came to Pixar leaders with an idea. He had seen documentaries in which robotic ...
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‘Hoppers’ Director Daniel Chong On Translating Cartoon Logic Into Pixar’s CG Pipeline

Chong and producer Nicole Grindle talk shifting from TV to features, the film's visual language, and making beavers the ...
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Why 'Hoppers' feels like the breath of fresh air Pixar needed!

(Photo: Pixar) For a long time, Pixar had a reputation for doing something almost no other studio could: taking strange, original ideas and turning them into emotional blockbusters. Toys having ...

Hoppers is the first Pixar movie I’ve ever heard make the audience gasp

Pixar’s hit new original movie suggests a way the studio could escape its doldrums.
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‘Hoppers,’ Pixar’s safe bet, offers humor, grandmothers and beavers — with just a touch of darkness

As audiences wait for ‘Toy Story 5,’ the cartoon factory’s latest offering starring ecologist rodents debuts after six years ...
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Pixar Pairs Originals ‘Ono Ghost Market,’ ‘Gatto,’ And Domee Shi Musical With ‘Monsters, Inc.,’ ‘Incredibles,’ ‘Coco’ Sequels

The studio outlined a slate that pairs new narrative directions and stylistic experiments with returns to established franchises.
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'Elio': Watch a 'moody' deleted scene from an alternate version of the Pixar cartoon

'Elio': Watch a 'moody' deleted scene from an alternate version of the Pixar cartoon. Gold Derby is premiering an exclusive deleted scene that's among the bonus features included on Elio's Aug. 19 ...
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‘Brave’ Fueled by Girl Power

The cartoon, co-directed by Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews, took inspiration from Chapman’s real-life relationship with her daughter. (Chapman was dismissed from “Brave” midway through the production ...