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Film News: Disney chief sets ‘Monsters’ sequel, ‘Brave’ release date — Rich Ross announced a sequel for Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.” for Nov. 16, 2012

Film News: Studio chief sets ‘Monsters’ sequel, ‘Brave’ release date — Rich Ross announced a sequel for Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.” for Nov. 16, 2012

Film News: Studio also sets release date for Pixar’s ‘Brave’ — Disney has dated Pixar’s “Brave” for June 15, 2012 and announced a sequel to “Monsters Inc.” for Nov. 16, 2012.

Film News: ‘Coraline’ director signs deal to make stop-motion features — The “Coraline” director, who began his animation career at Disney in the late ’70s, has struck an exclusive long-term deal to make stop-motion features for Disney/Pixar.

Film News: Launch set for June 18 in ‘Toy Story’ select releases — Dolby Laboratories announced today it is working with Disney/Pixar to develop a new audio format called Dolby Surround 7.1.

Film News: Company to receive Big 10 Award — How good a year was 2009 for Pixar? “Up” was the fourth-biggest release (with $293 million), one of the best reviewed of the year and it scored five Oscar noms.

Film News: Disney/Pixar toon wins picture, director — ‘Up’ took the top prize at the 37th annual Annie Awards Saturday, as well as director honors for helmer Pete Doctor.

Film News: Nostalgic opening spans decades-long relationship — While it may have been colorful birds, talking dogs and a floating house that attracted children to Pixar’s 10th film, it was the story’s heart and soul that won over adults.

Film News: 3D pics, overseas auds changed gameplan — Back in 2000, studios were flush with cash and made movies for U.S. audiences first. New Line and MGM were still players. DVDs were new and had yet to turn into Hollywood’s cash cow. Watching a movie online was unrealistic. Brad Grey was still a talent manager. And Pixar was the little toon shop outside San Francisco that made cute movies on its computers.

Film News: Race draws on a more animated world at the box office — When the HFPA voted last month to expand this year’s number of nominations for animated feature from three to five slots, it constituted a long-overdue recognition of animation’s increasingly high profile and box office heft. In addition to recognizing the sheer number of animated projects that deserve inclusion, the expansion also allows other contenders to join the club that has been dominated by Disney-Pixar, which has produced the previous three Globes winners: “Wall-E,” “Ratatouille” and “Cars.”