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Joe Ranft was born in Pasadena in 1960 and grew up in Whittier. He was regarded as one of the top story artists in the animation industry.

Well, soon it'll be 2009 Academy Award winner Wall-E , but which of Pixar's eight previous wonders of the movie world will this week's apparent masterpiece be supplanting atop the list? Every Pixar movie has ...

The lunch meeting grew into something of a legend over the years. It's gotten "mythified," says Andrew Stanton, who was there.

I had been through the Disney's Hollywood Studios version of the Toy Story Midway Mania! Fastpass queue at least a dozen times before I noticed this wonderful detail.

Andrew Stanton, director of "WALL-E," at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif.

“I knew it would have to be sci-fi because it was a robot, and I wanted him to be alone on our planet”

What if we left Earth and someone left the last robot on? This is the remise of Pixar's latest film, WALL - E, which will be released June 24, and it's what attracted director Andrew Stanton to the project. via Columbia Spectator