NOTTE E GIORNO

Un bonus per il week-end, prima di rituffarci nell'agòne delle discussioni complesse.

Un rilassante cortometraggio Pixar, che per il momento (ma non per molto) è godibile per intero in rete, per gentile concessione: Night & Day. Divertente, conciliante, una delle strane, insolite realizzazioni recenti(ssime) della gang di John Lasseter, che (com'è noto) non si occupa solo di 3D.

Le cronache, in questi giorni parlano di una decisione grave della Disney-Pixar rispetto alla sua NON partecipazione con Toy Story 3 agli Annie Award:

Le mécanisme des votes est effectivement assez pernicieux. Il faut en effet savoir que chaque personne travaillant au sein d’un studio d’animation peut adhérer à l’ASIFA, et voter pour la catégorie du Meilleur film d’animation.

Or Dreamworks aurait plus d’animateurs, et offrirait d’office l’adhésion à l’ASIFA à chaque nouvelle recrue. Ce qui inciterait son personnel à pencher plutôt pour les productions maison au moment du vote fatidique… Un mécanisme pervers qui fait dire à certains que les Annie Awards sont purement et simplement "achetés".

Qualche approfondimento si trova qui.

Peraltro, Toy Story 3 ha toccato un altro record di botteghino, superando il miliardo di dollari d'incasso, come recitava un comunicato ufficiale del 27 agosto scorso.
Eccolo, paro paro:

DISNEY-PIXAR’S TOY STORY 3 WILL CROSS $1 BILLION TODAY; DISNEY TO BECOME FIRST STUDIO WITH TWO $1 BILLION FILMS IN ONE YEAR

BURBANK, Calif. – August 27, 2010 – Two weeks after becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time, Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 3 will cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office today, joining Alice in Wonderland as the second $1 billion film this year from The Walt Disney Studios – the first studio in history to accomplish this feat. Disney first crossed the $1 billion threshold with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest in 2006. Toy Story 3 becomes the only animated film to reach this milestone and the seventh title in industry history.

“It’s been an incredible year as we saw the Pixar team bring Buzz and Woody back to the big screen and watched Tim Burton’s vision for Alice in Wonderland take the world by storm,” said Rich Ross, Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios. “These box office triumphs prove that creative storytelling brought to life by imaginative, inspired and talented professionals is something audiences respond to the world over.”

As of Thursday (8/26/10), Toy Story 3 tallied more than $592.9 million internationally, Disney’s largest international animated release.

Latin American audiences have contributed $138 million making Toy Story 3 the highest grossing Disney film ever released in the region. Toy Story 3 is the most successful UK release in Disney history and currently stands as the fourth biggest title in territory history with $102.4 million in box office receipts so far.

In Japan, the film has taken in $111.2 million and spent five consecutive weeks as the #1 movie. Toy Story 3 currently ranks as the #7 film in global box office history and domestically ranks #9 with $404.6 million in receipts to date.

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