The latest Wall-E trailer is up from Pixar. And just as fans we cant wait. Pixar is still head and shoulders above anyone else in 3D features and this alone will make this year’s Siggraph worth attending. Judging by the trailers – Andrew Stanton (writer and director) has succeeded in his aim of capturing the look and feel of the 70mm sci-fi films from his youth. The camera style of Wall-E seems intriguing and very fresh, they have even used new approaches to emulate things like barrel distortion and lens flare of 70mm.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/

At Pixar HQ animation has wrapped, the Pixar guys are in the last 2 months of re-takes and fixes right now, with the wrap party slated for May 31 in San Francisco (no, we weren’t invited either … sorry). World Wide release is 27th June, and expect to see Buy-N-Large Corporation merchadising in cubicles worldwide after that.

UP (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson co-directing) is next year’s release (May 29th), and then Toy Story3 is 2010 and 2011 is Cars 2. Interestingly, in light of my last post, in 2009/2010 you will see not only Pixar’s UP, but Toy Story1-3D, Toy Story2-3D, and Toy Story3-3D, with the dates staggered. These will be using the Real-D projection technology, that one insider referred to ” technology that appears to becoming the standard for digital stereoscopic projection”. Interestingly the House of Mouse also plans a sequel to Tron also in 3D for 2011, Joseph Kosinski in talks to direct. (all subject to change of course)