Pete Docter goes UP

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UP screening this Saturday with Pete Docter

The world premiere of the film is at Cannes on May 13. UP was chosen to be the opening film of the festival, the first ever animated film to be awarded that honor.

Before that premiere, however, lucky folks in Ausitn, Texas will get an even earlier screening! On Saturday, April 18, Ain’t It Cool News, Fantastic Fest and The Alamo Kids Club are hosting a free sneak preview screening of UP at the digitally retrofitted Alamo Drafthouse Village. The director of UP, Pete Docter, will be present and available for a Q&A following the screening. Also, before the film, we will be previewing the new Pixar short PARTLY CLOUDY with director Peter Sohn and producer Kevin Reher in attendance.

We have 50 tickets to give away to the Kids Club Facebook group. Please RSVP on the Kids Club Facebook page and indicate on the wall how many tickets you would like. Priority goes to people who are bringing a child so please indicate whether you will be bringing a child in your wall post. By the end of the day on the 15th, we will post to the event wall and the Kids club wall the final ticket winners chosen at random from those who sign up. Harry is also giving away some tickets to this screening on Ain’t It Cool News.

If you don’t make either of the lists, we will have a small standby line on the day of the show. Please note that this will be a digital 2D presentation of UP as the 3D effects are not yet complete.

UP opens nationwide (and at the Village) on May 29th.

Sneak Preview of Pixar’s UP this Saturday! | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Blog

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UP rated PG

The MPAA has designated Disney-Pixar's May 29th release, UP with a PG rating for "Some Peril and Action."

Brad Bird's 'The Incredibles' is the only other Pixar film to receive a PG rating.

[themur]

If you are in the Bay Area on May 7 you can support the Emeryville Education Foundation, actually go to the Pixar campus and see UP.

Emery Ed Fund

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Originally Posted by ALIASd

Pixar's Next Short Also Cloudy?

AnimationWorldNetwork
February 12, 2009



AWN Headline News

Interview with Peter Sohn, director of the short, 'Partly Cloudy' at:

Animation World Magazine


The clip of the "delivery" sequence is just gorgeous, see at AWNtv!

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As with 'Ratatouille' and 'Wall-e'
Acme Archives Direct
Acme Archives Direct

Pixar has commissioned UP poster artwork from a few artists including Erik Evans, Eric Tan and Paul Conrad. They are currently on display up in Pixar's atrium.

Here's a few of Conrad's contributions:

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Your Friends from Radio Disney AM 1110~ Now in HD

Parents, if you're interested in receiving four (4) screening passes to attend UP on Wednesday, May 27th at 7:30pm, please email us at ABCRS.KDISPromotions@disney.com

Tickets are first come, first serve. Theatre is overbooked to ensure capacity. If you receive a ticket you must still arrive early to the theatre as seating is first come, first serve basis. Tickets do not guarantee admission and must be surrendered upon demand. No one will be admitted without a ticket or after screening begins. Issuer reserves the right to refuse, revoke, or limit admission in its sole discretion at any time. Admission consitutes consent for issuer to photograph and record bearer, and to use the likeness of bearer for any purpose whatsoever without payment. Requests for screening passes will only be accepted til 11:59 PM- Sunday, May 24, 2009.

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Aflac Teams 'Up' With Disney-Pixar
--Marketing Collaboration Includes New Television Ad & New Paint Scheme
for the Aflac 99 Car --

COLUMBUS, Ga., May 6, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Aflac today announced that the Georgia based insurance company has teamed "Up" with Disney-Pixar to produce a television commercial utilizing their unique brand of animation. The ad will feature movie characters from "Up", Disney-Pixar's first ever 3-D film, and the Aflac Duck demonstrating how Aflac policies help protect you when injury or illness threatens to derail your dreams.

Aflac also created a new "Up" - themed paint scheme, featuring Disney-Pixar characters, for the Aflac 99 Ford Fusion that will be driven by Carl Edwards at the Southern 500 NASCAR race at Darlington Raceway. The race will be nationally televised on the FOX Network on May 9, 2009, where the new ad will debut.

"We are pleased to have partnered with Disney-Pixar to create our first new ad using the tagline 'We've Got You Under Our Wing,'" said Aflac Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Charney. "This commercial reminds all of us about the importance of having a financial plan for life's unexpected events."

Aflac - Investors - News Center - Aflac Press Releases - Individual Press Release - About Aflac - Aflac News Center - Aflac Press Releases - Individual Press Release

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Carl Fredricksen's
Flying Armchair!

For two months in the Spring of 2009, Carl Fredricksen's LazyBoy will become a real-world flying armchair, attached to a beautiful cluster of giant balloons! Partnered with a team of FAA certified balloon pilots, the Cluster Balloon LazyBoy will host aeronauts on tethered flight operations in 20 U.S. cities on a whirlwind tour of the country leading up to the film's launch!

The armchair flights will consist of a five-story tall cluster of colorful balloons carefully attached to the gondola, allowing Media VIP aeronauts to ascend to tethered altitudes above the city and experience the world of lighter-than-air flight in a very unique way!

All events have FAA commercial and gas rated pilots, and even the on-camera spokespeople will have specific LTA training. Great for the world of ballooning!

The events are early-morning activities, with a crew meet time on the airfield at a bright early 2:00am. Lighter-than-air pilot experience, or ballooning crew experience, is very helpful.

In addition to the pure fun of these lighter-than-air special events, cluster balloon crew members will receive a special 'Cluster Crew' pin, and a Disney 'UP' T-shirt!

WEST COAST TOUR Bradley/Landvater
May 7 or May 8: San Francisco, CA / Press Day
May 11 or May 12: Sacramento, CA
May 14 or May 15: Dallas, TX
May 18 or May 19: Phoenix, AZ
May 21 or May 22: San Diego, CA
May 25 through May 29: Los Angeles, CA

EAST COAST TOUR - Trappe/Wright-Smith

May 11: Cleveland, OH
May 14 through May 19: New York City
May 21 or May 22: Boston, MA
May 25 through May 29: Philadelphia , PA –or- Washington , D.C.

Jonathan Trappe's Cluster Balloon

The Cluster Balloon at Pixar
YouTube - Cluster ballooning at Pixar

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'Up' is Pixar at its most ambitious

The film began with an image of a grouchy man holding balloons. A story developed out of that -- slowly. More than four years later, it's ready.

'Up' is Pixar at its most ambitious - Los Angeles Times

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UP cast

Possible spoilers ahead, view at your own discretion:

Spoiler

Ed Asner — Carl Fredricksen
Christopher Plummer — Charles Muntz
Jordan Nagai — Russell
Bob Peterson — Dug & Alpha
Delroy Lindo — Beta
Jerome Ranft — Gamma
John Ratzenberger — Construction Foreman Tom
David Kaye — Newsreel Announcer
Mickie McGowan — Police Officer Edith
Danny Mann — Construction Worker Steve
Donald Fullilove — Nurse George
Jess Harnell — Nurse AJ
Josh Cooley — Omega
Elizabeth Docter - Young Ellie
Pete Docter — Campmaster Strauch

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"Up, like WALL-E, will prove to be one of the most satisfying movie experiences of its year."

full TIME magazine review by Richard Corliss at:
Going Up - TIME

[yoyoflamingo]

Saw it today and I think it's Pixar's best. Heartwarming, exciting, and funny. A great movie full of laughs and tears, that will make anyone leave the movie theater happier.

Can't wait to see it in 3D

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It's great that all the effort payed off, glad you guys got in.
Hope you got to see the short, 'Partly Cloudy' as well.

Apparently the Pixar team is now on their way to Cannes to open the festival there with 'UP'. It'll be interesting to see what the international reactions are like.

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Originally Posted by ALIASd

It's great that all the effort payed off, glad you guys got in.
Hope you got to see the short, 'Partly Cloudy' as well.

Apparently the Pixar team is now on their way to Cannes to open the festival there with 'UP'. It'll be interesting to see what the international reactions are like.

Partly Cloudy played as well. Great, classic Pixar short. Also saw trailer for The Princess and the Frog, and the Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailer!

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By suggestion from another thread:

The first public advance screening of 'UP' was on April 18 at the Alamo Drafthouse Village in Austin with AICN. Pixar benefit screenings were May 2nd for The Piedmont Educational Foundation, May 7th for the Emery Ed Fund and the San Francisco Film Society has a screening on May 11th.
'UP' has its World Premiere opening the Cannes Film Festival, the first animated film in history to do so, on May 13th and the Los Angeles Premiere is Saturday May 16th at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
It screened yesterday at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
in Hartford, CT. Screenings are scheduled for late this week and next around the SoCal area. The Radio Disney screening is May 27th and the D23 event set for May 28th back at the El Capitan Theatre.