While they opened better than other summer tentpoles, franchise lows for "Despicable Me 3" and "Cars 3" represent serious sequel fatigue. Pixar’s “Cars 3” and Illumination’s “Despicable Me 3” are what ...

Getting into Pixar’s semi-secret Motorama car show is the automotive car-guy equivalent of a kid getting into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. The animation mega-conglomerate that brought the world ...

"Cars 3" is revved about coming to the 2017 North American International Auto Show. But the trip isn't just about selling this year's model. It's about the hit movie franchise wanting to thank the ...

Cars: Animation. Featuring the voices of Owen Wilson, Paul Newman and Bonnie Hunt. Directed by John Lasseter. Co-directed by Joe Ranft. (G. 116 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Cars are people in the ...

Well, we heard it was coming — and, sure enough — the animation branch rejected Pixar’s “Cars 2” and Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” in favor of two hand-drawn European indies: “A Cat in ...

Reporting from Beijing — When Zheng Wenyi, 18, went with her boyfriend to a cinema in Beijing last week, she wanted to pick an interesting movie for their date. All the films showing appeared to be ...

Watch a clip from the film "Cars 2," courtesy Walt Disney Pictures. Five years ago, when "Cars" proved to be Pixar's first less-than-stellar animated feature, an animator friend offered his theory ...

It is not enough to debunk lies about electric cars once. We often have to repeat them so much that it seems people will finally learn. Yet, the same arguments keep coming back, as Colin McKerracher – ...

The International Animation Festival will screen six feature-length films and 300 shorts from 103 countries. Seminars and panel discussions add a dimension to the films; categories include hand-drawn ...

Admit it already - you've always been watching cars and imagining facial expressions. Heck, you don't even have to be a petrolhead in order to do it. In fact, the time has come for us all to examine ...

Just days before Pixar's "Coco" is set to hit theaters, Pixar co-founder and Walt Disney Animation chief John Lasseter announced he is taking a six-month leave of absence citing "missteps" with ...