However, Tom Hanks spoke with Magic 105.4 (via Digital Spy) that a fourth film maybe in development. “I think they are trying to do another one. The spirit afoot is to make a fourth,” he said.

Of course, Hanks does mention that he only thinks another film is in development, and even he’s waiting to see what Pixar wants to do. “Whatever is going on at Pixar headquarters is a mystery to me. I’ll wait until they blow white smoke out of the chimney or whatever it is that says there’s another Toy Story coming down the pipe,” he said. A sequel would seem like a big possibility given the film’s $1 billion dollar success, but does a fourth film need to be made? Many have agreed that Toy Story 3 concluded the series perfectly, and that a sequel would maybe taint that ending. However, money talks in Hollywood, and Pixar knows people will watch another film if it happens.

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: The King’s Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Colin Firth for The King’s Speech

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Natalie Portman for Black Swan

Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: Toy Story 3- Randy Newman (“We Belong Together”)

Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: The Social Network – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: Inception – Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Pete Bebb, Paul J. Franklin

Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Inside Job – Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs

Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: God of Love – Luke Matheny

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Strangers No More – Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood

Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: The Wolfman – Rick Baker, Dave Elsey

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: Inception – Richard King

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Winner: Inception – Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: The Social Network – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Christian Bale for The Fighter

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: In a Better World – Susanne Bier (Denmark)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: The King’s Speech – David Seidler

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich

Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Melissa Leo for The Fighter

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Inception – Wally Pfister

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

Source: IMBD

The broadcast for the Academy Awards will air Sunday night on February 27th.

Nominations were announced on January 25th at 8:30am est.

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem for Biutiful
Jeff Bridges for True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
James Franco for 127 Hours

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale for The Fighter
John Hawkes for Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner for The Town
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush for The King’s Speech

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams for The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter for The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo for The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit
Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom

Best Achievement in Directing
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for True Grit
David Fincher for The Social Network
Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
David O. Russell for The Fighter

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Another Year: Mike Leigh
The Fighter: Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
Inception: Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech: David Seidler

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
127 Hours: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
Toy Story 3: Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
True Grit: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Biutiful: Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico)
Dogtooth: Giorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
In a Better World: Susanne Bier (Denmark)
Incendies: Denis Villeneuve (Canada)
Outside the Law: Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria)

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Black Swan: Matthew Libatique
Inception: Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech: Danny Cohen
The Social Network: Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit: Roger Deakins

Best Achievement in Editing
127 Hours: Jon Harris
Black Swan: Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter: Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech: Tariq Anwar
The Social Network: Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland: Stefan Dechant
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: Andrew Ackland-Snow
Inception: Guy Hendrix Dyas
The King’s Speech: Netty Chapman
True Grit: Stefan Dechant

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland: Colleen Atwood
I Am Love: Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech: Jenny Beavan
The Tempest: Sandy Powell
True Grit: Mary Zophres

Best Achievement in Makeup
Barney’s Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
127 Hours: A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon: John Powell
Inception: Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech: Alexandre Desplat
The Social Network: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
127 Hours: A.R. Rahman, Rollo Armstrong, Dido (“If I Rise”)
Country Strong: Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges (“Coming Home”)
Tangled: Alan Menken, Glenn Slater (“I See the Light”)
Toy Story 3: Randy Newman (“We Belong Together”)

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Inception
The King’s Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Inception
Toy Story 3
TRON: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2

Best Documentary, Features
Exit Through the Gift Shop: Banksy
GasLand: Josh Fox
Inside Job: Charles Ferguson
Restrepo: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Waste Land: Lucy Walker

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

Best Short Film, Animated
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let’s Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, a Journey Diary

Best Short Film, Live Action
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143

Source: Oscar

So what film does the man consider the best of 2010? Read below to find out!

1. Toy Story 3
2. The Social Network
3. Animal Kingdom
4. I Am Love
5. Tangled
6. True Grit
7. The Town
8. Greenberg
9. Cyrus
10. Enter The Void
11. Kick-Ass
12. Knight and Day
13. Get Him To The Greek
14. The Fighter
15. The Kings Speech
16. The Kids Are All Right
17. How To Train Your Dragon
18. Robin Hood
19. Amer
20. Jackass 3-D

Source: The Quentin Tarantino Archives

The Film:

Here’s a delightful little animated film.

I looked and looked for the DreamWorks or Pixar logo on the film, but nope, someone else is actually making and can make just as good animated films as those two powerhouse studios, and the real winners are us, the audience. Despicable Me aims for the funny bone and hits it nearly every time, thanks to a clever script that has a few jokes that could be viewed as being a tad mean-spirited, but hey, what’s not to like about an animated film that jabs at orphans, bad parenting, and poop? Don’t fret, it’s all very safe, so your kids won’t be tainted, as I’m sure they’ll love the Minions so much, that Universal granted us with some  short films for the Gru-ray disc.

For all of the jokes, the poop humor, and the Minion antics, Despicable Me actually has an emotional chord within all of the eye-popping 3D. It might be minor, and not as profound as we’ve seen from DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragonand Pixar’s Toy Story 3. The film has a somewhat original idea of two super villains battling it out for top villainy and a bank loan for future villainy. Gru (Steve Carell) thinks by adopting three orphaned little girls, that he could use them to trick Vector (a somewhat wasted Jason Segel) and get his shrink ray. All goes according to Gru’s devilish plan, until he develops his father’s connection to the three girls.

Despicable Me is quite enjoyable from start to finish. The emotional third act doesn’t hit a home run, but it’s a solid double with runners in scoring position, but still, it’s the clever visual jokes, the Minions, and safely inappropriate humor that makes the film a hoot. Oh, and the funky Mission: Impossible score from Hans Zimmer and Pharrell from N.E.R.D. adds a considerable amount of charm to film. It’s a welcomed breezy time, possibly a nice diversion from the more emotional animated films as of late. In fact, it nicely reminds us of a bygone time when Road Runner would violently out wit Wiley E. Coyote. Like I said, Despicable Me is a charmer, and it doesn’t mind being a little devious to do so.

The Blu-ray:

Audio/Video: Universal’s HD transfer is better here than in 2D cinemas. It’s eye-catching with the eye-popping colors and fine clarity, like any animated film should be on Blu-ray. I don’t want to bore you with adjectives on the great looking transfer, so just enjoy: it’s what HD animated films are made for. Note: There’s also a 3D Blu-ray version that is on a different set, so it won’t be reviewed here.

The DTS track is equally as great. Loud, powerful, room-rattling, yet it never drowns out the babble between the Minions or any other dialogue. Hope you all have a above average home theater system.

All extras are in HD.

Commentary: Director’s Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin talk about the production of the film and the development of the script, and at times, get interrupted by the lovable Minions. Maybe it’s too much, since only adults listen to these, but hey, it’s cute and clever, even if it’s over-done.

Gru Control: This is an all-Minion picture-and-picture track and it features them goofing off during the movie, with some interviews. It’s neat for the kids and is possibly only aimed at them.

Mini-Movies: Here’s three short films, featuring mostly the Minions (yet again), and they’re all pretty good. Home Makeover has the three little girls trying to prep the house for a visit from the Orphanage to make sure Gru is still keeping the house safe. Orientation Day has a couple of new Minions learning the rules of the job, but it’s Banana, that is truly funny and great. Fans should enjoy all three, though.

Most of the featurettes are kind of EPK, but give a good little bit of info on the making of the film. The Voices of Despicable Me has interviews with the voice cast; The World of Despicable Me covers the creation fo the houses, labs, and other places; Despicable Beats has an interview with N.E.R.D.’s Pharrell on his score and songs for the film; and A Global Effort covers the international production teams that help make the film. Simple and quick.

These extras are just for fun: Miss Hattie’s Top Secret Cookie Recipes offer up some recipes for the fans that are cooks; some interactive games in Super Silly Fun Land and Gru’s Rocket Builder, which are your typical remote control based games; and Trailers and BD-Live functions round out the extras.

A second disc that hosts the DVD version of the film and the Digital Copy.

Conclusion: Funny, enjoyable, even with some subtle mean bits of humor (that I enjoyed) on a stellar Blu-ray disc.

The Film: Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

The Blu-ray: Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

While Norman isn’t sure what film it will be attached to, director Lee Unkrich confirmed on Twitter the short will play in front of Cars 2 next summer. Of course, many were probably hoping for more of Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim Allen), and there new owner Daisy, but Ken (Michael Keaton) and Barbie (Jodi Benson) were one of the many highlights of the movie. It’s uncertain if Keaton and Benson will return and voice the characters, but it seems likely.

Cars 2 opens on June 24, 2011.

Sadly, one of my personal favorite films from last year was The Princess and the Frog, yet that was a bit of a box office failure. Too bad, because its wonderful blend of old school charm and animation was superb. Tangled was renamed after its original title failed to excite many at Disney, which was called Rapunzel. We shall see in November how this will all play out, as Disney is looking for a non-Pixar hit.

Their Toy Story 3, by the way, was a billion dollar success.

Source: AOL

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For all of the jokes, the poop humors, and the Minion antics, Despicable Me actually has an emotional chord within all of the eye-popping 3D. It might be minor, and not as profound as we’ve seen from DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon and Pixar’s Toy Story 3. The film has a somewhat original idea of two super villains battling it out for top villainy and a bank loan for future villainy. Gru (Steve Carell) thinks by adopting three orphaned little girls, that he could use them to trick Vector (an somewhat wasted Jason Segel) and get his shrink ray. All goes according to Gru’s devilish plan, until he develops his father connection to the three girls.

Despicable Me is quite enjoyable from start to finish. The emotional third act doesn’t hit a home run, but it’s a solid double with runners in scoring position, but still, it’s the clever visual jokes, the Minions, and some humor that’s safely inappropriate that makes the film a hoot. Oh, and the funky Mission: Impossible score from Hans Zimmer and Pharrell from N.E.R.D. adds a considerable amount of charm to film. It’s a welcomed breezy time, possibly a nice diversion from the more emotional animated films as of late. In fact, it nicely reminds us of a bygone time when Road Runner would violently out wit Wiley E. Coyote. Like I said, Despicable Me is a charmer, and it doesn’t mind being a little devious to do so.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

The film opened there to a paltry $5 million in 10 days there and by contrast rivals Shrek Forever After and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opened $38 and $35 million respectively in the same time frame as Toy story 3. Notoriously, Pixar has never done good in Russia. Wall-E and Up grossed only $12 million there in their entire theatrical run. The reasons? “People here didn’t grow up seeing the first two movies, so they think a film about toys is just for young children,” said Paul Heth, chief executive of Russian theater chain Kinescope. “Everyone in the market here is a bit shocked at what the film has done, given its quality.”

Russia has had a recent heat wave that has sent many to different areas to cool off and when the first two films were released in the 1990s, Russian theater count were low, until recently, with a huge boom in new openings. Russia is also one of the international’s best animation markets. Disney hasn’t issued a comment on this yet.

1. Toy Story 3 ($59,000,000)

2. Grown Ups ($41,000,000)

3. Knight and Day ($20,500,000)

4. The Karate Kid ($15,400,000)

5. The A-Team ($6,000,000)

6. Get Him To The Greek ($3,010,000)

7. Shrek Forever After ($2,875,000)

8. Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time ($2,801,000)

9. Killers ($2,000,000)

10. Jonah Hex ($1,600,000)

This week will see the release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (June 30th) and M. Night Shymalan’s The Last Airbender (July 1st).

Certainly TV companies and manufactures are thinking so, with releases of new TV sets capable of 3D and TV stations like Discovery 3D and ESPN 3D, all but shows the demand of what is still a ‘wow’ factor. Just last Tuesday, Sony released the first stand alone disc, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3D for capable Blu-ray players. With some of Hollywood’s top directors exploring 3D options like Cameron, Scorsese, and possibly Nolan, it seems like it all weighs on consumers shoulders if the format will fade away like it did at the end of the ’50′s and ’80′s, or blossom into a new medium families can enjoy. With a Pixar record for Toy Story 3, that includes 3D ticket sales, of a $109 million opening weekend, for now it looks bright for 3D’s future.

Source: Deadline

1 Toy Story 3 $109,000,000

2 The Karate Kid $29,000,000

3 The A-Team $13,775,000

4 Get Him to the Greek $6,117,000

5 Shrek Forever After $5,520,000

6 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time $5,273,000

7 Killers $5,100,000

8 Jonah Hex $5,085,000

9 Iron Man 2 $2,675,000

10 Marmaduke $2,650,000

This following weekend sees the releases of the Tom Cruise action flick Knight and Day, Grown Ups, and opening Wednesday, June 30th is The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Source: Box Office Mojo

Toy Story 3

“Well, I really tried my best to end the story of Andy and his toys and bring that story to a close in a really nice way at the end of this film. That being said, we know that people love the characters, love Woody and Buzz, and would hate to say good-bye to them completely. I don’t know that there would ever be a ‘[Toy Story] 4.’ We don’t have any plans for one — but we are trying to find ways to keep the characters alive. We have announced we’re going to do a short film in front of ‘Cars 2′ that uses the ‘Toy Story’ characters. We’re going to keep them alive; they’re not going away forever.”

June 24th 2011 is the date for Pixar’s next film, Cars 2, so it seems possible, much like the short film they did with the Monsters, Inc. characters, that this is the route we’ll see these characters again.

Source: /Film

Where do our toys go when we grow older? Andy is readying himself for college and with iPods and laptops keeping his attention away from Woody and Buzz, the gang is on a one last ditch effort to be played with. Alas, they find themselves packed away, heading towards retirement in the attic, but by chance and misfortune, they wind up at a daycare. Did Andy betray them? Toy Story 3 concludes the arc of a child’s favorite toy’s life cycle and its reflection on that, is the emotional chord that will tug at the heart strings. And tugs it does. In fact, Toy Story 3 might be the best example of Pixar finding that good old Disney charm that Walt wanted in each and every film. It’s a film so good, that it echoes why we love those Golden Age of Disney films like Bambi and Pinocchio. That’s no easy task, as they’ve tried and came close mostly, exceeding only a fraction of the time.

Where as most other studios take the sequel formula into paint-by-numbers areas, Pixar proves that regardless of the numeral after the title, it’s the story that matters most, over 3D or the potential box office due to name recognition. The climax will leave you with a handful of waded tissues, as Andy reflects on what made these toys so great to him growing up. To spoil this adventure, like most other critics have prior to me, is blasphemy. It’s a journey that every once-a-child must take. Sadly, the Sid’s of the world won’t care about its emotional chord that should strike you deep into your heart. Their loss. Toy Story 3 made me want to find my two old buddies I grew up with, that are quietly laying in an old cedar chest at my mom’s house. I wonder if they still think about me? I wonder if they know how much they meant to me growing up?

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Day & Night is the new Pixar short that preceded Toy Story 3 and it’s a classic in the making. The film is a brilliant use of cell animation and CG, a playful give and take by the differences in the two non-speaking characters, only to have a timely and timeless message of each others differences and how accepting them with an open-minded could lead to new possibilities. Simply wonderful.