John Lasseter

The LA Film Critics named “The Social Network” best picture, but also showed love to “Carlos” and “Mother” “Animal Kingdom” and “A Prophet.” The New York Film Critics also honored “The...

It's hard to imagine a more depressing symbol of the lack of influence of women directors in Hollywood than the Hollywood Reporter's new Women in Entertainment Power 100 List. The list, which gives the No. 1 spot to ABC TV......

“Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa” debuted last night on ABC during “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Who watched? The seven-minute animated short is a follow-up to last year’s popular “Disney Prep & Landing.”...

The usual suspects' named were trotted out when the nominations for the 83rd Academy Award were announced this morning. We're talking “The Social Network,” “Black Swan” “The King's Speech” (12 nominations, leading the...

Any sport is ultimately all about the numbers, right? Here's Jeff Gordon -- four-time winner of what's now called the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, three-time Daytona 500 winner, first driver to reach $100 million in series winnings -- and all I really want...

Burbank native Leslie Iwerks took on the daunting task of compacting 35 years of history on George Lucas' visual effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, into her documentary on the company's evolution that will be seen this weekend on Encore. In...

REVIEW: WORLD OF COLOR This is a longer version of my review of the new spectacle at California Adventure. The review will run as a cover story in Saturday's Los Angeles Times Calendar section. Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim will......

The streak lives. "Toy Story 3" is the best movie of the summer, and Pixar continues to be Hollywood's most consistently creative force -- and its most original, even when the movie happens to have a number in the title.......

If you're a student of animation history, chances are that, over time, you've come across at least some of Charles Solomon's books, including "Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation" and "The Disney That Never Was: The Stories and Art From......

During the first 10 minutes or so of "Toy Story 3," I was getting worried about the film. The character banter, the story situation, the rhythms of peril and emotion -- none of it felt new to me. Pixar has......

"Toy Story 3" just scored the biggest box office weekend in Pixar history. Susan King caught up with the film's director, Lee Unkrich, for a feature for the Los Angeles Times. For Hero Complex readers, here is a longer version......

Susan King is back on the Hero Complex with more from her interview with Lee Unkrich, the filmmaker of the moment in Hollywood, with the still-surging success of "Toy Story 3." A week before "Toy Story 3" opened to glowing......