Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Josh Cooley’s Toy Story 4.
At time of recording, it was ranked 116th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Notes:
- Recorded 1st July 2019.
- Toy Story 4 at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the box office opening of Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- Travis Bean at Forbes on Toy Story 4‘s status as the biggest G-rated opening of all time, June 2019.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes provides a bit more context for the box office performance of Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- Gabe Cohen at The New York Times examines Toy Story 4‘s second weekend at the American box office, June 2019.
- Dani Di Placido at Forbes reports on the unlikely box office battle between Toy Story 4 and Spirited Away at the Chinese box office, June 2019.
- Liz Shackleton at ScreenDaily on potential challenges facing the Chinese film industry November 2018.
- Patrick Frater and Rebecca Davis at Variety on how Trump’s trade war threatens American film distribution in China, June 2019.
- Sean Fennessey at The Ringer on “the summer from hell”, June 2019.
- Carolyn Giardina at The Hollywood Reporter on how Toy Story 4 sets up a hypercompetitive animated awards race, June 2019.
- Tara Brady at The Irish Times offers a brief history of the Toy Story franchise and the Pixar shared universe, June 2019.
- Corinne Heller at E! Online on fan theories about Andy’s father, June 2017.
- Director Josh Cooley talks to The Washington Post about making Toy Story 4 after Toy Story 3 was such a perfect resolution, June 2019.
- Producers Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen talk to Digital Spy about finding the ending to Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- Manuel Betancourt at Esquire on how Tom Hanks became America’s dad, September 2016.
- Todd S. Purdum at The Atlantic on the “packaging” scandal rocking Hollywood, April 2019.
- Dani Di Placido at Forbes on how Toy Story 4 softens the dystopian implications of the earlier trilogy, June 2019.
- Tom Power at Polygon on the Toy Story franchise as a story about growing up and letting go, June 2019.
- Michael Walsh at Nerdist on the thematic overlap between Toy Story 4 and Avengers: Endgame, June 2019.
- Reuben Baron at Comic Book Resources on the overlap between Toy Story 4 and Ralph Breaks the Internet, June 2019.
- Chris Evangelista at /Film on “the toys of summer”, June 2019.
- Christian Bone at We Got This Covered on the sly counter-marketing of the Child’s Play reboot, April 2019.
- Rashida Jones talks to IndieWire about her departure from Toy Story 4, May 2019.
- Carolyn Giardina at The Hollywood Reporter on Pixar’s efforts to become a more inclusive working environment, April 2018.
- Cassandra Smolcic writes at The Hollywood Reporter about the perceived “boy’s club” at Pixar, June 2018.
- Michael Cavna at The Washington Post on John Lasseter’s departure from Pixar and continued career, January 2019.
- Victor Luckerson at The Ringer on how Pixar became a sequel factory, June 2019.
- Pixar co-founder Edmund Catmull discusses the studio’s move towards sequels with IndieWire, April 2017.
- Dani Di Placido at Forbes on the evolution of the character of Bo Peep across the Toy Story films, June 2019.
- Alissa Schulman at MTV on how Pixar reinvented Bo Peep for Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- Michael Cavna at The Washington Post on the importance of “Team Bo” in developing Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- Annie Potts talks with Variety about playing Bo Peep in Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- Meg Downey at Polygon on the alternate version of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, March 2019.
- Nate Jones at Vulture on the story behind “Forky”, June 2019.
- Michael Cavna at The Washington Post on the secrets and surprises of Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- E. Alex Jung at Vulture on how the Keanu Reeves cameo in Always Be My Maybe came together, June 2019.
- Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peel discuss working on Toy Story 4 with Entertainment Weekly, June 2019.
- Joe McGovern at Entertainment Weekly on the casting of four comedy legends in Toy Story 4, June 2019.
- Corinne Heller at E! Online on how Toy Story 4 brought back Don Rickles as Mister Potato Head, March 2019.
- Darren discusses Toy Story 4 as a meta-commentary on fandom in Escapist Magazine, July 2019.
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