Pete Docter's Mind Film Apparently Has a Title: The Inside Out

Pixar's upcoming slate is really taking shape, we have a lot of exciting projects; some sequels, some originals, some new directors. One thing we're a little short of though is titles. Up co-director Bob Peterson's directorial debut only recently got its title and some plot points, The Good Dinosaur, we know very little about films beyond that though. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich is bring us an, untitled, film about the Mexican holiday, Día de los Muertos, first-time feature director Teddy Newton will be bringing us a film, and Andrew Stanton returns to animation with, the tentatively titled, Finding Nemo 2. Sandwiched inbetween all that though, on 19th June, 2015, is the new film from Monsters, Inc. and Up director Pete Docter, which now has a title.

Pete Docter and Andrew Stanton Teaming Up

Yes, you read that right, the two famed Pixar directors who brought us, Monsters, Inc. and Up, and Finding Nemo and WALL E, respectively, were recently announced to be working together on a project - an animated short film.

Despite the Oscar winning pair's very hectic schedules - with Stanton directing the live-action space epic, John Carter, for Disney, and Docter directing the Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind - Andrew Stanton told us in a recent interview with Ain't It Cool News of the collaboration, which allows him to return to animation at Pixar whilst working on the John Carter franchise.

Stanton said:

"As a matter of fact I’m developing a short film with Pete Docter. There’s an idea that he and I have had for years that we are finally getting around to doing which is kind of funny. We are both way too busy, but we just love the idea of doing this one little project together"

Via Pixar Talk.

Disney's Snow Queen Now Titled Frozen - Pixar's Dinosaur Film Bumped Off Release Date

Disney recently unveiled the title for their November 2013 release, Frozen. This caused some confusion on Twitter yesterday, as the Novemeber 27, 2013 release date touted for Frozen is the very one that we had been told Up co-director Bob Peterson's Untitled Dinosaur Film would be released on. This in turn led to several reports that that film was now called Frozen; however, courtesy of /Film, we now know that that's not true.

/Film tells us that Frozen is the new name for Disney's The Snow Queen, the adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, a film which has been circling around Disney for years, being on and off the shelf time and time again. Speaking of on the shelf, this now means that The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs has been bumped off its release date. This presumably means that we'll be seeing the film around 2014 - when The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind is due out.

Whilst this means we'll have to wait slightly longer to see another Pixar film, it means The Snow Queen is finally back on track - for now.

Pixar's Untitled Mind Film Takes Form

The next Pixar feature film from the Academy Award winning director of Up and Monsters, Inc., Peter Docter, currently known as The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind (just rolls of the tongue doesn't it?), is starting to take shape.

Pixar and Disney Animation head honcho, John Lasseter, was on the Charlie Rose show recently and talked about Pixar in general, but touched on Docter's next film. Specifically, about the Up helmer's film, which takes the audience inside the human mind, Lasseter said:

"Pete Docter, from Monsters, Inc. and Up, is doing a new film that takes place inside  of a girl’s mind and it is about her emotions as characters, and that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen."

This is the first real bit of information we're getting about Pixar's furthest off anounced feature, which sounds like their most ambitious film to date, and it sounds very intriguing. So, this not only means that we're going to see physical representations of human emotions as characters, but also that Pixar will likely be looking at their second female protaganist in as many years, following Brave next year. The entire film just sounds brilliantly exciting and evokes memories of Day and Night, the Pixar short attached to Toy Story 3, for me.

I cannot wait to see what Pixar come up with here, it sounds fantastic and it's released on May 30, 2014.