Pixar's Next Movie: The Incredibles

An anonymous reader writes: "The trailer for Pixar's next film, The Incredibles, is on the web. It's available from the official Incredibles site, the Apple trailers page, and Pixar's website. Lots of info on the official page as well! Enjoy!"

They still ...

[Augusto]

... have to release this and their next film "Cars" with Disney. After that, they no longer have to have their films distributed by Disney.

Also Disney gets the rights to any sequels for these films, if Pixar refuses to make sequels for them. (Like Toy Story 3)

Re:What the???

[grub]

This picture was in production before the split.

Re:What the???

[Black_Logic]

They plan on not renewing the contract, but they didn't break it. More info here [movieforums.com]

Re:What the???

[Mateito]

> I thought that Pixar split from the Disney
> Empire? What's up with that?

Disney will still release one or two movies more (The Incredibles plus the next one). Pixar had a 6 film deal with Disney, but Disney contested that "Toy Story II" counted as it was a sequel. (This is one reason that Pixar don't do sequels).

So we have

Toy Story I/II
Bugs Life
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemos
The Incredibles
One more. .. and then Pixar will go with somebody who gives them more than 10% of the takings. Pixar weren't looking to "screw" Disney, just be paid a fair price for what they are now worth in the market.

Torrent

[AIX-Hood]

Don't know if people care since Apple is fast, but here's a torrent: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/the_incredibles-t lr_m480.mov.torrent [filerush.com]

Re:Adult films

[Lumpy]

And btw, by 'geared towards adults' I certainly don't mean sex and explosions, that doesn't hurt though if the plot is interesting and supports it.

I have two words that would make them GOBS of fricking cash....

Heavy Metal

the first teaser of Titan AE looked as if it was going to be in the style of Heavy Metal and I was fricking GEEKED but it tanked out to be a kiddie movie.

If Pixar were to have the guts to make a R rated Heavy Metal style film they would absolutely clean up.

Re:"In Theatres 11-5-2004"

[shadow303]

On the off-chance that you are being serious, that would be November 5th, since Americans list month before day when writing dates.

Re:Adult films

[NTmatter]

It's not a movie, but a show geared towards adult audiences. Tripping the Rift [scifi.com] is CG featuring adult-oriented content. No actual sex or nudity so far, but lots of adult humour. A few choice quotes from the show would be:

"Just once when I moan 'Oh God...Oh, God!', I really want to mean it."

"Well, you know what they say: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't get over how big its genitals are."

"How'd you like to take a free ride on a girl with four gams and no gag reflex?"

It's coming to a television near you. Watch it.

Re:Teaser and new trainler look like two movies

[CaseyB]

The plot summary on IMDB sounds more like that indicated by the teaser. The trailer must be showing just scenes either recalling the old days or after the team has gotten their steam again. Maybe both, hence the red suit/blue suit differences?

Re:Quicktime? iTunes?

[mosschops]

I'm going to wait until the trailer is in a video format that doesn't require me to run bloated software, before I see it.

My dear Cinderella, you shall go to the ball. [free-codecs.com]

Re:Adult films

[Mateito]

Just a note: Shrek wasn't pixar. It was Dreamworks (I think).

Re:The Incredibles Soundtrack vs Die Another Day

[goober]

I have no idea why they're recycling soundtracks. Maybe that's a starting trend...

This is a very common practice. Music soundtracks are one of the last things done in movie post-production. (You need a near-final cut of the film before you can score it.) Trailers, which come out months in advance, will use other appropriate music as place holders until then.

Direct Download

[kajoob]

Here is a direct link to the large trailer [akamai.net]. Just right click, save as.

I don't have itunes so I couldn't get the fullscreen version, someone wanna post that (if it's even possible - fairplay maybe)?

Re:The Incredibles Soundtrack vs Die Another Day

[cjpez]

... and practically every third trailer ever made uses either Carmina Burana or the Stargate theme. :)

Re:Even better, the incredisize version

[Götz]

Oops, that was the old one, the new one is here [vitalstream.com].

Re:Pixar is no different than anyone else

[Robotech_Master]

Uhm...Miyazaki-san himself has said that he wrote Spirited Away for 12-year-old girls. You're confusing the cultural disconnect with audience. Granted, Japanese animated films in general tend to have a higher degree of maturity than American ones do...but that doesn't mean they're for an older audience.

And even if that weren't the case, Miyazaki has made quite a few movies "written for kids" himself. For instance, look at My Neighbor Totoro or Panda, Go Panda. Enjoyable by adults (just as Pixar's films are), but clearly aimed right squarely at the little kid market.

Soundtrack: Propellerheads

[tbmaddux]

I was pleasantly surprised to hear "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" from decksanddrumsandrockandroll, playing in the background of the trailer. This album also has "Take California," used in an iPod commercial, "History Repeating," used in "Something About Mary," and "Spybreak," used of course in the lobby shooting spree of "The Matrix."

Re:Adult films

[Golias]

I have two words and a number to prove you wrong.

Heavy Metal 2000 [imdb.com]

Re:Adult films

[Golias]

The adult anime that I've seen has almost all been puerile and appeals to a juvenile sensibility of violence and sex.

Stop renting "Hentai" anime from the pr0n section of your local video store, and watch "Millennium Actress" [imdb.com] Follow that up with Grave of the Fireflies [imdb.com] and maybe even Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis. [imdb.com]

Then come back and tell us what a wasteland of juvenile titilation the Japanese anime landscape is. Until then, pipe down and recognize that you have no idea what you are talking about.

Trailers _always_ crib music

[LairBob]

That's just standard industry practice (q. 4) [filmscoremonthly.com]. By the time an early trailer like this one needs to be ready, the soundtrack's still probably being _composed_. Even "coming next week" trailers often use music that has nothing to do with the actual film. (How many times have you heard the "Carmina Burana" during a trailer?)

Re:Quicktime? iTunes?

[khuber]

Quicktime isn't a video format. It's just a container for various codecs. The Incredibles trailer is using a Sorenson video codec and a QDesign audio codec.

Re:pixar != disney

[Anonymous Coward]

Pixar was never a part of Disney -- Disney just had an agreement to distribute the pictures and take half the profits.

From their recent annual report [sec.gov]:

Relationship with Disney

A critical component of our objective to maintain our position as a leading brand in the animated feature film market is to secure strong promotion, marketing and distribution of our films and related products. We believe that Disney is among the leaders in the marketing and distribution of animated feature films and related products and is one of the industry's most widely recognized brand names. We have enjoyed a long relationship with Disney that dates back to 1986, when we entered into a joint technical development effort with Disney that resulted in the Computer Assisted Production System ("CAPS"), a production system owned and used by Disney in some of its two-dimensional cel-based animated feature films. Disney first used CAPS for The Rescuers Down Under and has continued to use it for its subsequent animated feature films, such as The Lion King and Tarzan. In 1992, certain employees of Pixar and Disney were jointly awarded an Academy Award® for Scientific and Engineering Achievement for the development of CAPS.

In May 1991, we entered into the Feature Film Agreement with Walt Disney Pictures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney, which provided for the development, production and distribution of up to three feature-length motion pictures (the "Feature Film Agreement"). It was pursuant to the Feature Film Agreement that Toy Story was developed, produced and distributed. In 1997, we extended our existing relationship with Disney by entering into the Co-Production Agreement. This agreement generally provides that we will be responsible for the development, pre-production and production of each Picture, while Disney will be responsible for the marketing, promotion, publicity, advertising and distribution of each Picture. The profits from the Pictures are shared equally between Pixar and Disney after Disney recovers a distribution fee and pre-agreed distribution costs. The term of this arrangement continues until the delivery of Cars to Disney, which we expect to occur in mid-2005.

Re:They still ...

[JosefK]

I seem to recall reading or hearing an interview with John Lasseter where he said that they weren't really interested in sequels as a general principle. They want to to fresh stories every time. Toy Story 2 was an exception, first because they were still early in their deal with Disney, who want nothing but sequels, and because they felt the story was good enough and distinct enough from the first movie.

The issue of knockoff sequels (like the direct-to-video Buzz Lightyear thing) was a major issue in the negotiations with Disney. Pixar wanted to get out early and take their next two films home, but Disney threatened to make up for the two movies by doing their own sequels to the earlier movies. I never saw what the final deal was.

Re:What the???

[16K Ram Pack]

FYI It's not an orphanage, but Great Ormond Street Hospital.

It has a unique status, that it is specifically named in UK law, and has a perpetual copyright.

As for Walt, a recent documentary I saw painted him in a very different light to the "uncle Walt" image that was created.

Re:What the???

[Mateito]

Point is Toy Story III is 0wn3D by Disney, and unless Pixar make it without Buzz, Woody and anybody appeared in the first episode, Disney can, and will, go it alone.

Read grandparent.

Re:Cliff Claven

[RatBastard]

• A Bug's Life - P.T. Flea
• Toy Story / Toy Story 2 - Hamm
• Finding Nemo - School of silvery fish
• Monster's Inc. - Yeti (Want a snow cone?)

That's all I can remember.

Re:tries to get people into iTunes 4.5

[Anonymous Coward]

If you use Mac OS X, there is no need to pay to use full screen. Using AppleScript Editor, create a script with the following content:

on open FileName
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open FileName
present movie 1
end tell
end open

Save it as an applet and drop movie files to see it in full screen.

Re:What the???

[Monkey Angst]

Point is Toy Story III is 0wn3D by Disney, and unless Pixar make it without Buzz, Woody and anybody appeared in the first episode, Disney can, and will, go it alone.

I believe they also wouldn't have the rights to the title. So they would have a sequel with a different title and none of the same characters.

URL of "fullscreen" (640x272) movie file

[Michael A. Lowry]

For those of you who choose not to use iTunes 4.5, and those who wish to save the movie to disk, here is the URL of the "fullscreen" movie file:

http://movies.apple.com/movies/disney/the_incred ib les/the_incredibles-tlr_ifs.mov

P. S. The movie is 640x48 pixels in size, but the video track is only 640x272 pixels in size.