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Finding Nemo may have been a cartoon about a clownfish traveling across the ocean looking for his son, but it was also one of Pixar’s first overt forays into the workings of the human mind. The film, ...

You can tell a great deal about a culture by the entertainment it produces for its children. Disney-Pixar’s latest film, ...

Stephen and Aisha discuss the movies that landed at the bottom of Pop Culture Happy Hour's Pixar poll, including the film that received zero votes. Listen to the episode on the winners of the poll ...

Pixar's new movie, Brave, is out Friday, and it features the first girl lead the studio has ever had in 17 years of existence. Her name is Merida, she is Scottish, and she is a princess. O.K., so ...

Is there a more trusted brand name in entertainment than Pixar? The innovative animation studio debuted in 1995 with Toy Story, and has since released 13 feature films and collected 26 Academy Awards.

John Negroni's theory — that every film made by Pixar occurs in the same universe and connected to every other Pixar film — relies on the premise that Boo from Monsters Inc. is actually a ...

Pete Docter, the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, puts his storytelling skills to work when mentoring emerging leaders and filmmakers. He once candidly recounted the crisis of ...

We hear from Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum on the challenge of making a sequel to the 2009 break-out hit. This time with studio backing from Paramount, the producers had to find a way to ...

Aesthetic storytelling : a tradition and theory of animated film -- The uncanny integrity of digital commodities (Toy Story) -- From the technological to the postmodern sublime (Monsters, Inc.) -- The ...