New Pixar Cars Short: Unidentified Flying Mater

Directed John Lasseter, Pixar's co-founder and director of Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life and Cars (along with co-director Rob Gibbs), Unidentified Flying Mater is the fifth in a series of Cars short films (originally titled "Cars-toons"). The computer animated short premiered on The Disney Channel on Friday, November 20th 2009. Mater tells a tall tale about the time he met a UFO and saved him from a group of government scientists in this Cars Toon. Mater finds a small UFO called Mator and they have a night out. When Mator is captured by the military forces, Mater saves him with the help of Lightning McQueen and Mator's mother. Also of note: An older press release claims that Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) composed the music for the short film. Watch the full short film, embedded after the jump.

Geek Deal: Pixars Up, Cars, and Monsters Inc on Blu-ray for $36

Amazon is offering one hell of a deal on Pixar Blu-rays. Basically, you can get the Up 4-disc DVD/Digital/Blu-ray combo pack, Monsters, Inc 4-disc DVD/Digital/Blu-ray combo pack, and Cars 1-disc Blu-ray for only $36.47 with free super saver shipping. That would be a great price for normal Blu-ray releases, nevermind 4 disc packs, and nevermind the usually overly expensive Disney Blu-ray releases. Here is how you get the price. Click here and put a check in the boxes for the three movies. Click Add to Cart. During checkout, enter the code PIXARBLU, which should bring the total to $36.47. I'm not sure how long this deal will be good for, so get it while you can. Thanks to /Film reader Ray E for the tip.

Vactors Blu-ray Bulletin for November 10, 2009

November 10, 2009 Cars: Ultimate Cars Giftset (Walt Disney) Discovery Atlas: Complete Collection (Image) The Echo (Image) Elvis Costello: Spectacle - Season One (Music Distribution) The General (Kino) Godzilla (1998) (Sony) Heat (Warner) The Killers: Live from Royal Albert Hall (Mercury) Logan’s Run (Warner Brothers) Mama Mia! The Movie - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! More Blu-ray Giftset (Universal) Monsters, Inc. (Walt Disney) Near Dark (Lionsgate) The Negotiator (Warner Brothers) Red [...]

Blu-ray Capsule Review: Cars (Blu-ray Combo Pack Gift Set)

Cars (Blu-ray Combo Pack Gift Set) QUICK THOUGHTS: Often looked at as the lesser of the Pixar films (hardly an insult) and at almost two hours I can understand some of those complaints, but this isn't a terrible film by any means. I will, however, say that after defending it when I ranked the first ten [...]

George Miller Shows Off Mad Max 4 Cars

There have been a spate of articles spreading throughout the ...

Mad Max 4 Moving Ahead, Checkout the Cars!

For a long time George Miller has been talking about his $100million sequel to Mad Max, Mad Max 4 and I have been waiting very impatiently for the day to come. Now comes word that the project has been greenlit and is moving ahead. Lots of names being kicked around as to who would play Mad Max including Sam Worthington who starred in Terminator Salvation and is in James Camerons upcoming Avatar.

I am EXTREMELY excited for this movie and hope they do cast somebody of Worthingtons caliber to star. Below you can checkout a 4minute video where George Miller talks about the film, its stars and shows off the new cars he has planned.

George Miller talks Mad Max 4: Fury Road

George Miller, the man behind Mad Max 4: Fury Road, allowed some media types to follow him around the set where they are building some of the cars to be used in the film. In the clip we barely get a glimpse of the cars, and he talks about how they are spending the next year [...]

Mad Max 4 Director Talks Cars And Casting

George Miller Shows Off The Cars of Mad Max 4 on Video

George Miller has appeared on ABC News in Australia, showing off the cars he's having built for Mad Max 4 and discussing his plans for the movie. This includes some hard facts on the casting. After a short sharp burst of rumours, it's good to get some straight and low-down. You can see the video embedded below the break. Did you spot the painted backdrop hanging there at the start of the clip, the desert and sky? I'd guess they've been filming screentests with actors behind the wheel. I've got no idea what else it could be getting used for. Even Miller doesn't know who the final cast are yet, he says, and though he's been casting very busily for six or seven weeks, he's still got a great heap of actors to see. Who else might we want to see stepping up to audition? I found it very interesting to hear him default ...

D23: Lasseter Talks Cars 2

John Lasseter talked at length at this afternoon's D23 Expo about the upcoming Cars 2, going into great detail on the story of the film, as well as showing a number of early concept designs.