Pixar Profile – Episode #33 (June 9th, 2015)

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4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Popcorn Talk proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. Pixar Animation Studios, or simply Pixar (/ˈpɪksɑr/), is an American computer animation film studio based inEmeryville, California. The studio is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney's largest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Popcorn Talk Network.
0:02.0	For the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news and interviews, press one.
0:08.9	Popcorn Talk, we talk movies.
0:26.3	From the Popcorn Talk Network, the online broadcast network for movie talk talk,
0:29.3	Alicia Malone with Scott MovieMance and the Schmose Know.
0:30.6	This is Profile.
0:34.8	In-depth spotlights on the greatest filmmakers and artists in motion picture history.
0:39.7	Hello, Shmobles and profiles.
0:45.9	Today on profiles, we go to infinity and beyond.
0:46.6	Oh, yeah.
0:49.2	We are profiling Pixar.
0:50.9	This is really exciting. This is the first time we have done a movie studio instead of just a filmmaker or an actor. And what a movie studio. I mean, how do you describe the magic that exists behind Pixar movies? Well, first of all, the magic is in the numbers. You have 15 movies, including their latest and one of their greatest movies inside out. It's fantastic.
1:11.4	It is brilliant, imaginative, absolutely setting the bar even higher for Pixar.
1:17.5	Four, 14 previous movies that have grossed more than $8.6 billion worldwide.
1:23.0	But with one film after another, the films are magical, they're clever, they're smart, they're funny.
1:29.4	They are layered for kids to have fun and for grown-ups to be challenged with intelligence.
1:35.1	Yeah, without pandering to either side. I mean, they just work, I think, because of the story.
1:40.2	And the thing that I realized when I was re-watching all these movies was how much humor and heart each of them have.
1:46.3	I mean, I love that they talk about story being paramount.
1:50.3	They've got the 22 rules of storytelling, which include things like you admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
1:57.9	And Andrew Stanton, who's a big, big guy behind a lot of these movies, he says he
2:03.0	distills each story down to a sentence. So finding Nemo is fear denies a good father from being one.
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