Wall-E News

Director Burns Down Possibility of 'Wall-E' Sequel

February 04, 2009 02:02:54

"Wall-E" won't be getting a sequel treatment, insisted the animated movie's writer/director Andrew Stanton. Sharing out what he has in mind of the sequel issue, the 43-year-old filmmaker tells MTV News, "Personally, I never consider sequels. I think that takes a lot of hubris to think that your idea is going to live on and on, and I always love the idea of something just being contained and done."

Explaining the reason behind why he is not going to make the sequel for the robot romance film, Stanton points out on the working process of "Wall-E", "We work on these things for so long, that we have a hard time simply thinking that the [first] film is ever going to be done." The director of "Finding Nemo" further adds, "I'm not against sequels, and I've certainly experienced personally and seen secondhand great sequels, but I don't go in with that intent."

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'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Wall-E' Share 2008 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards' Top Price

December 15, 2008 01:12:55

Winners of the 2008 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards have been named. At the organization's annual meeting on Sunday, December 14, "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Wall-E" have been hailed BSFC Awards' best picture. In tie for the best picture prize, both "Slumdog" and "Wall-E" collected one other prize, "Slumdog" received Best Film Editing kudo, whereas "Wall-E" was dubbed Best Animated Film.

Apart from those two movies, "Milk" has dominated the awards recipients' list with three awards. Bringing home Best Director recognition for its director Gus Van Sant, the biopic movie about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America, has nailed the Best Screenplay kudo and its leading actor Sean Penn was in tie with Mickey Rourke of "The Wrestler".

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Dubs 'Wall-E' Best Picture of 2008

December 10, 2008 11:12:10

As Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) named the top achievements in 2008 on Tuesday, December 9, "Wall-E" comes out victorious, nailing the coveted title of the Best Picture of the Year. Winning over runner-up"The Dark Knight", the Andrew Stanton-directed film has become the first ever animation movie to be given the title by the association.

In the announcement made by Lael Loewenstein, President of the LAFCA, it is also let out that Danny Boyle has been dubbed as Best Director for "Slumdog Millionaire", while Sean Penn has been hailed as Best Actor for his portrayal of Harvey Milk in "Milk". Moreover, other winners also include Best Actress Sally Hawkins, Best Supporting Actor Heath Ledger and Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz.

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'Wall-E' Displays Amazing Run for Box Office Top, 'Wanted' Exceeds Expectation

June 30, 2008 09:06:57

Proving to be the one summer movie to be watched, "Wall-E" lives up to the industry experts' prediction and does even more than that with its amazing run for the crowned #1 slot at the North American box office. With $63.1 million, the family comedy animation has secured its place at the top of the weekend box office and is well ahead of its competitor "Wanted (2008)", which also has an impressive opening, debuting second on the chart.

Raking in more than $60 million, "Wall-E" has become Pixar's ninth consecutive movie to land No.1 and is the studio's third highest grossing movie after "The Incredibles" with $70.5 million and "Finding Nemo" with $70.2 million. Before the final tally came out, the newest Disney's animation grossed a bit behind "Monsters, Inc." which earned $62.6 million on its opening weekend. Still, it finally secured the third place with the outing of the official revenue count. Additionally, it is Pixar's biggest opening-day movie scoring $23.1 million from its Friday, June 27, screening.

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'Wall-E', the Best Pixar Movie So Far?

June 26, 2008 03:06:57

Throughout the years, Pixar Animation Studios have delivered one great CGI-animated feature film after another. With heart warming movies, like "Toy Story", "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille", the studio have dug up massive heaps of golds at the box office as well as collected various coveted awards along the way. Now, as their latest hoped-to-be-great film, "Wall-E", is nearing its theatrical release, the animation production house are crossing their fingers hoping it to be their best work yet. And, it seems that movie critics have believed it to be so.

Gathering a huge pile of positive reviews, "Wall-E" has been mostly praised to be a stunning animation movie with a great big heart. San Francisco Examiner's Rossiter Drake complimented it to be "a wondrous work of the imagination and, to date, the year's best film". In the similar mood of throwing laudation to Pixar for their work with this film, Adam Fendelman of HollywoodChicago.com noted that "Wall-E" is "2008's first perfect film and one of the best Pixar projects of all time".

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Eventful Evening for 'Wall-E' World Premiere

June 23, 2008 09:06:43

This weekend ended on June 22 passed by not without any special occasions. In fact, it was marked with the theatrical debut of two awaited comedy movies, "Get Smart" and "The Love Guru", and of course with the memorable world premiere of Disney/Pixar's highly anticipated animation movie, "Wall-E".

On Saturday, June 21, evening, celebrities of all ages came pouring down to the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California to celebrate the special event. Personalities from the older generations, like Brad Garrett, Marlee Matlin, Cristian de la Fuente and Kristi Yamaguchi to the younger ones including David Archuleta, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse and other Disney stars, Adrienne Bailon, Brenda Song and Selena Gomez, all grazed the Earth-colored carpet and joined its first screening.

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'Wall-E' New Trailer Unveiled Destroyed Earth and the City in Space

June 20, 2008 12:06:34

Brand new video footages from the upcoming animation movie "Wall-E" keep on coming out. After the release of "Lots of Bots" featurette few days back, another trailer has been unearthed. The fresh compilation of clips is entitled "Cities Trailer" and as the name given, it helps viewers to see bits of the ruined cities on Earth and the advanced city in space.

The considerably short trailer brings out more actions and adventures of which the moviegoers will be presented when they watch the film in theaters starting on next Friday, June 27. Displaying the detrimental condition of the Earth in 2800, it exposes a rather serious look of the movie suggesting that "the fate of mankind rests on one highly advanced machine" which is Wall-E. The mood shortly shifts to a lesser demure tone when Wall-E, the supposedly savior of Earth, is shown playing with a bra. The trailer further continues with snippets of Wall-E's adventure in space as well as on Earth.

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Featurette: Lots of Bots From 'Wall-E'

June 18, 2008 01:06:02

Adding to the many collection of "Wall-E" released videos, Walt Disney Pictures have released yet another featurette to the upcoming animation comedy about the waste compacting robot. The new video footage runs for about two and a half minutes and it discusses about the robots featured in the movie from director Andrew Stanton's point of view.

Revealing several unseen footages cut from the Pixar's flick, the featurette focuses merely on the robots that viewers will meet when they go to see "Wall-E" in the theaters. In it, Stanton and Bill Wise, the film's character supervisor, explained about the design of the robots and what is the ground of drawing the robots the way they are presented in the film. It also introduces for the first time the reject bots, the broken, faulty robots.

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A Bunch of 'Wall-E' Featurettes and Vignettes

June 16, 2008 01:06:01

In support of the promotional campaign for the upcoming Walt Disney/Pixar's "Wall-E", a bunch of video footages in relation to the animation movie have been outed. The footages include two featurettes, which are entitled "A Space Journey in Sound" and "Pixar Goes Space Age", and five new Brazilian vignettes.

As its title, the first featurette "A Space Journey in Sound" brings the viewers closer to the making of "Wall-E" from the sound effects side. It focuses on the importance of the sci-fi sound needed to make it realistic and it exposes how Ben Burtt, the Oscar-winning sound editor for "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and the man behind the voice of R2-D2 robot in the "Star Wars" films, works to get every sound for "Wall-E".

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More Unseen Footages of 'Wall-E' From NBA TV Spot and Extended Clip

June 09, 2008 02:06:38

Before moviegoers are rushing to the theaters on June 27 to watch the newest Disney animated feature film "Wall-E", Walt Disney Pictures have brought forwards a series of never before seen footages from the movie. The brand new released footages have been compiled in both TV spot and clip.

The television promo of "Wall-E" was aired during the NBA game between Boston Celtics and L.A. Lakers on Thursday, June 5. It opens with a scene in which Wall-E is playing with a basket ball which is then followed with compilation of clips focusing on the adventure of the little garbage robot away from Earth.

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'Wall-E' New Trailer Introduces More Robots and Brings Out the Human

June 04, 2008 11:06:21

Walt Disney Pictures have introduced their newest lovable animation character "Wall-E" through various unique video footages, including trailers and vignettes. They also have exposed the lonely garbage robot's love interest, 'EVE'. Other than the two of them, no other characters have been brought to the screen. But, now the mouse house let viewers to catch a look into other robots via a new trailer entitled "Meet the Bots".

This new trailer is considerably unique since it is made as if it is a promotional video from the 'Buy N Large' Corporation, the company selling robots designed to aid human in their daily activities. Some of the robots described in the less than a minute video footage include a vacuum cleaner robot named 'Vaq-M', a beautician robot known as 'Pr-T', a disinfectant robot called 'M-O' and positioning robot with the name of 'Auto'. The trailer also explains about the function of 'EVE' and of course 'Wall-E'. Furthermore, it also reveals that this movie combines both animation and live action with the exposure of the human element for the first time.

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Another Entertaining 'Wall-E' Vignette Online

May 31, 2008 01:05:08

The abandoned little garbage machine, "Wall-E" has been running away from a magnet, playing with a hula hoop, and discovering the use of headphones. Now, he has to deal with a floor full of bouncy balls with the release of a brand new vignette on the Internet.

In the short video, Wall-E comes across lots of round objects littering the floor. As a machine built to allocate waste, he then scoops the objects and transforms it to be a block. However, when he is about to pick up the block, it blows out making balls to be shooting everywhere and one in particular even hit him in the head.

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Featurette: How 'Wall-E' Come Into Life

May 26, 2008 03:05:31

After "A Hero's Journey" featurette exposing the story behind the lonely garbage robot has been posted online, another "Wall-E" featurette is making its way to the net. The new behind the scene video of Pixar's latest animation is entitled "The Man and the Machine" and through which movie lovers can see how the newest Disney's character came to life.

Presented by director/scribbler Andrew Stanton, the compilation of clips that runs nearly two and a half minutes focuses on the development of the lovable robot from the sketch to the actual animated version. In the video, Stanton explained that he has been thinking of making "Wall-E" since 15 years ago back to the time he was writing "Finding Nemo" as well as the difficulties of bringing the animation film to fruition. It also shows the comment from the producers about Stanton's work in the film.

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'Wall-E' New Featurette Gives Behind the Scene Look

May 13, 2008 02:05:16

Following a series of "Wall-E" viral videos released on the net, a new featurette centering on the story behind the Walt Disney Pictures' animation movie has come out online. The over a minute long video footage entitled "A Hero's Journey" brings a behind the scene look into the lonely robot film.

Though containing many footages that have been previewed previously, the new featurette is enriched with commentary from director/scribbler Andrew Stanton giving out the background story to the animation comedy tidbit. In the video, Stanton describes Wall-E's character as well as what happens to him.

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Second Wall-E Teaser Trailer Hits!

October 02, 2007 11:10:32

Said to arrive on Tuesday, October 2, 2007, the second teaser trailer for Disney/Pixar's new CGI animated "Wall-E" turned out to come a bit earlier on the net. Yes, the clip has delightfully been available to see online starting from yesterday, October 1.

The trailer is put on Yahoo! Movies in both standard and HD format, but you can also reach for it through Wall-E Trailer page on AceShowBiz. New footage include the new, funny intro showing the titular robot interacting with the Pixar logo and the discovery of his bug friend.

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Wall-E Teaser Poster Unveiled

September 28, 2007 12:09:16

The next work of Pixar Animation Studios, "Wall-E" , has now got its initial poster, it seems.

The one-sheet, as seen on the left, was first posted by Thomas Huxley of UpcomingPixar.blogspot.com who has claimed to obtain it directly from Buena Vista International, known as the company distributing all features produced by Pixar.

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Wall-E Story Unveiled

July 30, 2007 01:07:56

Coming up with packs of information about its future slate at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Walt Disney Pictures has eagerly opened up details on the plot of "Wall-E", its next CGI animated feature of Pixar Animation Studios production.

Provided by helmer Andrew Stanton, the story explains that humans in the future have completely trashed Earth with rampant commercialism and then leave the planet on space liners, leaving behind a number of robots to clean up the planet, including the titular character.

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Disney/Pixar Assembles "Wall-E"

January 19, 2007 12:01:59

Its latest work "Ratatouille" still has to wait a few months more before coming to the theaters yet Disney/Pixar has already aimed to develop a follow-up to the cuisine-loving rat tale.

In a letter sent to shareholders this week, Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger informed that the company is set to make the ninth CGI animated feature entitled "Wall-E" with "Finding Nemo" helmer Andrew Stanton to direct and Jim Morris producing.

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it was very good this movie becouse it had a lot of things .. and also teach us a very important lesson

posted by wall e the best on Jun 27, 2008

This movie is so great...i love everything about it even when they dont say much. Everyone needs to see it.

posted by in love with wall-e on Jun 30, 2008

absolute masterpiece. one of my new favorites

posted by 2110 on Jun 30, 2008

i loveeddd this movie!!! does anyone know what the song was that played during the end credits?

posted by go wall-e!! on Jul 07, 2008

OOH Y LOVE IT!!! I WAS A RIVER AT THE END OF THE MOVIE!!

posted by Ppadopulos III on Jul 07, 2008

this movie was so awesome... i want to watch it over and over again.. i cried like a river at the very end the movie teaches you about wat happens in the future if we keep going the way we're going now

posted by wall-ehero on Jul 07, 2008

Outstanding movie. The kids loved it and most adults should find it enjoyable. My only complaint is people that try to make this an "Al Gore Message" movie. Sci Fi uses extreme what-ifs all the time and this is no different. Trying to put a Green message to the story puts political junk on what is an excellent movie. Go see it, enjoy it and take the setting for what it is. A sci-fi fairy tale.

posted by Wall-ed on Jul 08, 2008

Eve and Wall-E so go together (; great movie. And I agree with Wall-ed. Wtf wall-ehero, that doesn't portray what is going to happen in the future if we keep going? You want us to end up with little feet and arms and fat as a whale?

posted by Oh My God... on Jul 11, 2008

The credits song is 'Down to Earth' by Peter Gabriel

posted by Laura on Jul 27, 2008

Very positive movie! our family enjoyed it! can not remember when i had such a great emotions from watching movies!!!! I LOVE WALL-E!!!!

posted by nikusha on Aug 19, 2008

I cried.. amazing movie.. so sensible.. wall e... hero of the true love

posted by MK on Oct 23, 2008

I THINK THIS MOVIE NEEDS MORE THAN 5 STARS..... it is the most amazing animated movie EVER!!!!!!!!!

posted by Walllllll-ee on Mar 01, 2009

this movie gives us many important lessons i like it

posted by wall e on May 05, 2009

I love wall-e i thought it was a great movie when it came out as it was fun for little kids and for older people....thanks :)

posted by Ammmy on May 20, 2009

MAN!!! I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH! I CAN'T STOP WATCHING IT!!!!

posted by Mighty B! on Jun 20, 2009

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posted by Wkmxsmff on Jul 13, 2009

LOOKED awesome. KINDA boring.

posted by rdog on Oct 15, 2009