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The Walt Disney Company has now won 16 consecutive animation awards at the VES Awards.

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On the live-action vfx side, Star Wars: The Force Awakens leads the feature categories with seven nominations, while HBO's Game of Thrones leads all projects with a total of nine nominations.

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Audiences in LA and NY have voted with their wallets: they are ready for mature and intelligent feature animation.

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The tenth time's the charm for Blue Sky Studios.

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Even more concerning than a flop is where the studio is headed creatively.

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"The Good Dinosaur" will have to work hard this holiday season to avoid becoming the lowest-grossing Pixar film ever released in the United States.

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"Inside Out" leads the way with 14 nominations.

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Adusted for inflation, "The Good Dinosaur" is Pixar's weakest launch ever at the box office.

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"The Good Dinosaur" isn't the greatest Pixar film ever made, according to reviewers -- but its painstaking replication of the Real World is astounding.

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We review Pixar's second feature of 2015

Last night Pixar’s new film The Good Dinosaur had its premiere in Los Angeles. We invited a Pixar mega-fan to send us his personal report from the premiere:

“The premiere was wonderful, and it was a memorable evening for the film’s director Pete Sohn.”

“But it was an even more memorable evening for me…John Lasseter.”

“It was fun to see intimate conversations, like this one that Pete is having with ‘Good Dino’ voice actors A. J. Buckley and Raymond Ochoa.”

“Guys, is there room for me in here?”

“Let’s get a photo, A. J.”

“O.K., can I have a hug, too?”

“Hey Pete, let’s get a photo of us with your film’s producer Denise Ream!”

“That was fun, but now let’s just get one of me by myself.”

“OMIGOD….GROUP PHOTO…GROUP PHOTO!”

“Thanks for letting me be in this one, guys!

“Come closer, little Raymond!”

“All my favorite celebrities were there, like the legendary actor Sam Elliott.”

“…and Anna Paquin.”

“The governor of the great state of Wyoming, Matt Mead, even asked to take his photo with me.”

“These guys said they worked for the Disney Company, but I never heard of them.”

“It was a fun night until my wife Nancy said we had to leave. Ugh!”

“But I had a great time! I can’t wait until the premiere of Pixar’s next film!”

(All photos © 2015 Getty Images. Photos by Alberto E. Rodriguez and Jesse Grant.)

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Disney has set release dates for its two 2016 releases: Zootopia and Moana.

Yesterday evening, Pixar quietly revealed on Twitter that the new director of "The Good Dinosaur," scheduled to be released in November 2015, is Peter Sohn.

One of the big questions surrounding the recent removal of Bob Peterson as director of The Good Dinosaur was how would Pixar finish the film in time for its May 2014 release date.

The answer: they won’t.

The Walt Disney Studios announced today that they are pushing back the release date of the director-less The Good Dinosaur from May 30, 2014, to Nov. 25, 2015. That will also bump the release of Andrew Stanton’s Finding Dory from November 25, 2015 to June 17, 2016.

Pixar president Ed Catmull told the LA Times, “Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film. Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time.”

Pixar will not release a film in 2014. Their next film will be Pete Docter’s Inside Out due on June 19, 2015.

This afternoon, Disney announced release dates for all of its animated features produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar through 2018. The two studios will be responsible for fifteen theatrical releases over the next six years. During the previous six-year period (2007-2012), Disney and Pixar released a total of 12 films.

Here’s what we know so far based on available information:

• Pixar’s Monsters University – June 21, 2013

(via @ERCboxoffice and /Film)