By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—Monsters are very much a big part of Charlie Day’s life this summer. The “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star plays a brilliant but somewhat offbeat scientist trying to conceive a way to stop alien monsters known as Kaiju from invading ea [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—It’s easy to see where the Pixar animators gathered some of their ideas for their newest film, “Monsters University.” They simply had to look around the campus-like grounds of their pioneering animation house just 45 minutes from San Francisc [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Twelve years ago, a pair of monsters popped out of a nightmare and onto the movie screen. Rather than terrifying audiences, “Monsters, Inc.”’s hyperkinetic one-eyed greenie Mike and blustering furball Sulley became endearing nocturnal heroes to a whol [...]