In Disney-Pixar’s Coco, a young Mexican boy named Miguel goes to great lengths to meet his hero, the famous musician Ernesto de la Cruz. The difficult part is that the singer, Miguel’s ...

In This Week in Animation News, I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news ...

This isn’t the only glimpse of the ball we get. In the most recent trailer, the ball is briefly seen. Pixar’s best-known Easter egg (with the Mexican-appropriate Pizza Planeta signage) zips by ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- The Disney-Pixar movie "Coco" was a huge box office hit and won the Oscar for best animated feature. It also brought the beauty of Dia de Los Muertos to audiences all over the ...

The timing couldn’t possibly be worse: on the very eve of the release of its long-awaited new animated feature film Coco, Disney (NYSE:DIS) animation chief and Pixar co-founder John Lasseter has ...

Inspiration can happen at any moment. For Disney-Pixar director Lee Unkrich, it happened during a visit with his family to Epcot at Walt Disney World in 2011. "We were in the Mexico Pavilion and I was ...