Twitter gets on the money

Twitter has rolled out the second phase of it's monetisation: Promoted Trending Topics. And Disney / Pixar are the first ones to buy a promoted topic. They've chosen Toy Story 3, which gets featured at the bottom of the trending topics list and also gets them the top tweet on the results page.

Read more here:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/twitter-trending-topics-ad/

Pixar launched UP to top of US box office

Pixar's latest film UP has gone straight to the top of the US box office, taking $68.2 million. All I've got to say is go and watch it. This film is beautiful, funny, emotional and cinematic!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8076541.stm

Up launches Cannes Film Festival 2009

Disney-Pixar's UP will be the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival, the first time that an animation has opened Cannes.

Read all about it here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/13/pixar-up-cannes-film-festival-review