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Did You Make The List For UP in AUSTIN? The List is UP!!!
Hey folks, Harry here - as you can see on the list - I literally had 70 seats, which included space for AICN's own. So in all - this was one of the toughest and hardest lists I've had to put together this side of BNAT. A lot of you have very passionate drives you wish to recapture since childhood - you should pursue them. I can say nothing is more amazing than accomplishing childhood aspirations in some small way as an adult. That said - below are the lucky 70. If you didn't make the list - there's always a chance you can make it in via standby. I'd recommend showing up about 40 minutes before start time (NOON) Saturday - and asking the Alamo Village folks where to line up to get a chance of filling what I'm sure will be the very limited available seating. Congrats to the winners!
1 Harry Knowles
2 Patricia Knowles
3 Emily Boykins
4 Dannie Knowles + 1
6 Jay Knowles
7 Jose Ramirez + 1
9 Gordon Jones + 2
12 Jed Strahm + 1
14 Kristoffer Aaron Morgan + 1
16 Neil Cook
17 Alan Cerny + 2
20 Darren Tange
21 Moises Chiullan + 1
23 Carolina Thomas
24 Jim Henson
25 C. Robert Cargill + 1
27 Dshanya Reese
28 Diana De La Torre
29 Geoffrey Yetter + 1
31 Anna Harrod + 1
33 JJ Weber + 1
35 Paul Alvarado Dykstra + 1
37 Jessica Barker
38 Tracy Hess
39 Jena Pair
40 Roland Denoie + 4
45 Ryan Beeman + 1
47 Michael Matthews + 2
50 Eric Vespe + 1
52 Richard Heim + 2
55 Catherine Jackson + 1
57 Chase Quarterman + 1
59 Luke Mullen + 2
62 Kayley Viteo
63 Kate Kniejski
64 Victor DePasqual + 1
66 Randy Wymore + 2
69 Burnie Burns + 1
Hey folks, Harry here - we've been on a good run here at AICN of bringing folks the early goods on the most anticipated flicks this summer - what with that great STAR TREK screening, and this time - we're doing it again by bringing Pixar's UP to the Alamo Village this Saturday at Noon!
I'm so happy that we're bringing this event to some of you folks in advance of the big premiere at Cannes on May 13th - but of course - they'll be getting it in 3D and we're getting it in 2D, because that extra bit of rendering to make it 3D ain't quite done yet. BUT - to introduce and to do the Q&A afterwards we'll have the director of MONSTERS INC and UP - PETE DOCTER. And that ain't all! We're also going to be the first people to see the new Pixar short, PARTLY CLOUDY with its director Peter Sohn and his producer as well!
How could it get better?
Well with you attending silly bear!
SO how do you get in? Well, some of you have begun registering via the Saturday Morning Kid's Club Facebook page - but that's only 50 folks. I'm giving away another 70 seats via AICN. So here's all you have to do.
Because this will be a very very hot ticket - I need to find the most gung ho people and family types that would like to see this. I'm talking people that have the spirit of adventure of Carl and the joy of discovery that this film is meant to foster. So write with your childhood dream that you abandoned, but wish to recapture. Send your paragraph or two to: HK at AintItCool.Com with the following EXACT Subject line:
I Know What's UP & I Want In!!!
Just copy and paste that exactly into the subject line of your email, don't forget the lost childhood dream you hope to recapture before you die and your full name and the names of your guest (Maximum of 3 total counting yourself!) Time is of the essence so I can make sure everyone knows in advance of this Saturday's amazing screening! See you there!
Posted on the Drafthouse's Website:
During Buttnumbathon this year, one of the standout favorites was 40 unfinished minutes from the new opus UP from the geniuses at Pixar. Even with temporary still images and incompletely rendered animation, the entire audience knew that this was a classic in the making.
Apparently, so did the folks at the Cannes Film Festival. The world premiere of the film is at Cannes on May 13. UP was chosen to be the opening film of the festival, the first ever animated film to be awarded that honor.
Before that premiere, however, lucky folks in Ausitn, Texas will get an even earlier screening! On Saturday, April 18, Ain’t It Cool News, Fantastic Fest and The Alamo Kids Club are hosting a free sneak preview screening of UP at the digitally retrofitted Alamo Drafthouse Village. The director of UP, Pete Docter, will be present and available for a Q&A following the screening. Also, before the film, we will be premiering the new Pixar short PARTLY CLOUDY with director Peter Sohn and producer Kevin Reher in attendance.
If you don’t make either of the lists, we will have a small standby line on the day of the show. Please note that this will be a digital 2D presentation of UP as the 3D effects are not yet complete. UP opens nationwide (and at the Village) on May 29th.
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That's right I said fuck it and fuck LA too! They take all the fucking good jobs.
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Apr 15, 2009 12:24:41 AM CDT
So many cool screening's lately, almost makes me wish I lived in
by turd furgeson
Almost.
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Fingers crossed! Would love to be able to take the wife and daughter.
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Is that an obscure reference to a movie that I'm not placing, or is that the single gayest fucking thing this guy has ever typed? I mean seriously. Have some self-respect.
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Move. that's what I did. Oh, and there's Austin and then there's Texas...
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...well, not YET. But dang, if Austin doesn't get some great opportunities thanks to Harry.
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I am too poor to fly to Austin or Chicago to these things, but I would be down for them in a heartbeat!
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Sly shows up from a time machine and shows them The Expendables
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I saw Ratatouille and WALL-E the past few years at events you held just like this. I've had such a blast. I've been wanting to see Up ever since it was announced! I can't wait to see this Saturday!!!
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damn you texans :-)
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Up won't be screened in the Philippines until July... So you think you're unlucky??? By then, I would have mastered the story through talkbacks!
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This is one AWESOME film, gorgeous in both visuals and story--and freaking hilarious! Pixar has raised the bar once again.
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Same here....
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not even the slightest shot at an early screening... I can send the best childhood dream in the whole world and still... nothing!
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Really?!!! Man I hope so, I do love my Pixar. Probably a bit to much for a grown man.... My friends think I'm mad. Where would you rate it in the Pixar scale??? Toy Story good or Cars good?! (Yes, even Cars although the weakest is good in my books)
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Whenever my folks think I'm mad for liking Pixar's goodies, I show them why. It started with Monster's, Inc. Since the movies before that keep raising the bar, every year from then I have something to be Pixar-hyped about. My peeps here told me i'm really immature. Then I made them see every Pixar movie since then. Now who's excited?
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Apr 15, 2009 11:04:36 AM CDT
Next week, "The Hobbit" beamed from Jackson's brain!
by the reluctant austinite
Why wait until the film is actually made? The Alamo has new technology that will beam finished films directly from the brain waves of the director! Harry, in fact, has already seen "Avatar' in a direct brain-to-brain linkup with James Cameron.
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Apr 15, 2009 11:43:52 AM CDT
But which film must die before you show UP?
by everythingeverywherestinks
What cinematic classic will be symbolically destroyed before you premiere UP? Will it be a previous Pixar release, or a previous Disney release? And if it's an old Disney release, will it be one of their animated films or a live action one? Or maybe you and your hipster friends will go meta on us and destroy an anime from Japan! Dammit, now I want to go just so I can see what film gets sacrificed to the fanboy gods before you show Up!
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...that Yin Yang Twins video that, I think you did, is seriously one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. The saying riot fish has become one of the most used phrases for me and I thank you for that. Cheers to you.
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But then when I watched Coraline I caught the new trailer, and the talking dog has sold me on this film!
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Apr 15, 2009 12:27:36 PM CDT
www.NukeTheFridge.COM has 3 The Expendables IMAGES!
by empireofgays54321
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Why not?.. he wants to be involved with everything lately.
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This late in the game there is no reason Pixar shouldn't be able to screen the film in 3D. Pixar pumps out only 1 film per year and thus it's 3D elements should be finalized if this film was envisioned to be a 3D film from the get go. This stinks of post produced 3D as a means to compete with Dreamworks. In all likely hood the 3D will look just as bland and uninspired as Bolt's 3D and not nearly as impressive as Monsters vs Aliens. I guess the only Real 3D experience we have to look forward to now is Avatar.
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when you want your eyeballs to be pointed at by random things. As visually modern 3D films offer nothing else.
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You're right why would Disney even bother making a 3D film? Obviously you haven't seen a 3D film done right...Maybe there might be some artistic merit to this whole 3D thing when virtually everyone of Hollywoods demigods (Cameron, Spielberg, and Jackson) are trying their hand at the technology. Not to mention that every studio is filling their slate with 3D projects.
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The studios are trying to generate product that can't be "experienced" easily at home. They need to give people a reason to buy tickets and go to the theater. At one time it was technicolor, and at another time it was widescreen, but those things are now available at home. I estimate that "Wolverine" lost aproximately $20 million in first weekend business due to illegal downloading. That's a million downloads at an average of $7 each plus sharing the movie with 2 friends each. For those people, the excitement of the first weekend is over. They'll be able to wait 3 months for the dvd to see the completed version. So instead of opening around $60-something million, I'm betting it opens at $40-something million. However, if the film was shot in 3-D there wouldn't be an acceptable quality bootleg to download.
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but you'll end up being force fed the new Star Trek instead
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swedishero, I've seen most 3D films in 3D thank you. And until a film comes along that fully gives a viewer a proper visual experience, and not random things being pointed directly into the camera. 3D is STILL not proven, the way to go.
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"Isn't it better that an American movie be premiered in America than in some damn foreign country?"
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thank you sir. spread it around as much as you can!
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Much appreciated, sir. See you on Saturday!
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Let's just say, it's lucky that you've got a standby line.
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Thanks Harry!
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Maybe one or two screenings a year somewhere other than Austin. I'm sure, for example, Baltimore's Senator Theater (assuming it's miraculously still around) would love to host an AICN premiere (he wrote self-servingly).
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And we'd be bad parents if our kids missed a Pixar.
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I saw the trailer for it in 3D in front of Coraline. The 3D looked very good!Anyway if you're waiting for that bigger break in 3D, I managed to catch previews of A New Hope and The Phantom Menace in 3D at SIGGRAPH and I was blown away! Space laser wars never looked so damn awesome! Lucas will indeed deliver on that front!
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I'm still processing it, and want to see it again in 3-D before making a final decision (our showing was in 2-D), but I think this could be my favorite Pixar film so far, closely followed by Toy Story 2, Wall-e, and Ratatouille.
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The simple fact remains that 3D in a matter of years (prob at least 5) will exist in our own homes. Just like with HD tvs when the demand rises and prices fall 3D tvs will become the new standard for home entertainment. They've already developed TVs that you don't even need 3D glasses for. When americans realize that soon they'll be able to watch Sunday Football in 3D at home the new standard will have emerged. So I will admit that to an extent you are right. However, just like with sound and color, this is the next tool for filmmakers to use to create a completely new immersed film going experience. By that point filmmakers will have developed enough techniques creating new ways for artistic expression (like deep focus) and wont have to rely on traditional 3D gimmicks.
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I wanted to be able to tell the Pixar gang in person how much their films have meant to me over the years. I even named my daughter after them. But I'm sure Patricia Knowles and Jay Knowles wrote fantastic entries, and didn't get seats by simple affiliation....
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"I'm giving away another 70 seats via AICN"
Not true.
At least 10% of those seats are on reserve for AICN family & friends. Why wouldn't you just say you have 60 tickets to give away? I notice this everytime there is a promotion for a free screening on this site. -
I don't want to appear bitter toward Harry by that last post, so I just want to sum up what I meant in less sulky words.
I don't think it's fair that Harry says, "I've got fifty tickets for X event, I'm holding a contest to see who gets 'em and it's open to the public!" Because what he really means, with BNAT and situations like this UP screening, is "I've got fifty tickets for X event, I'm holding a contest to see who gets 'em and it's open to the public, but first I'm going to give ten or fifteen of my friends top priority, so really I only have forty or thirty-five tickets available to the general public!"
I'm not against Harry letting his friends in. I'd do it too. I just wish he'd subtract the seats he's giving them at these events from the general pool of available seats. Sure, Patricia might have to fill out an application like the rest of us, but does anyone really think Harry wouldn't let her in based on a poor app?
But alas, I've thought about this way too much. Sorry for the rant. I really am just bummed about missing out on seeing the Pixar guys speak. I'm considering purchasing one of those 150 dollar tickets to see the movie at their studio in Emmeryville. Sometimes my nerdiness is unfathomable. -
exactly what I just said and I agree 100%.
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Sounds like code for Harry's sister, BEYONCE knowles.
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that's just greedy
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if only i were in austin
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why can't we have a screening in the UK. We deserve it dammit!
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on there for the result of a fair competition.
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so at least give him credit for that. In fact doing anything for us miserable people deserves a lot of credit.
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How you doing man?
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He had surgery over a year ago and he's still in a wheelchair. You tell me?
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I just saw a screening of Up today in Austin, a day before the Alamo one. I got an email and they just wanted anyone to come. The theatre wasn't packed that much and there was ALOT of kids and they loved it.
My grade: 10/10. Not a flaw in the movie. I was so surprised at how good it was!!
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The Alamo Drafthouse is the only cool thing in Austin. Otherwise it's as boring as hell here.
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You guys get all the cool stuff! I wish I could go to stuff like that.
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