Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up'

OC Register ^ | June 18, 2009 | ANNIE BURRIS

[Scarpetta]

This story is heartbreaking.

[kaylar]

Good job, Pixar.( BTW, the movie is one of the finest I’ve seen in a long time-the first 10 minutes would make an excellent standalone short.)

[Melas]

Hat’s off to Pixar. Kudos.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.

Hat’s off to Pixar. Kudos.

Agreed! Good on them!

[Retired Greyhound]

I agree. It was a great movie, and the first 10 minutes was the best.

Nice move by Pixar to do this.

[icwhatudo]

Why would they make a dieing girl wait for a dvd to be flown in? UP has been available online since the day it was released. Luckily it got there in time (she died only hours later???-sad. Are the studios that obsessed with fighting online copies that they couldn’t just give them the website?

[misterrob]

Because they have an obligation to protect their copyrighted materials and IP.

[beaversmom]

This one got me going WITT.

[icwhatudo]

It was a dieing girls last wish. Telling her family the movie website that already has multiple copies of “UP” certainly would not have hurt the company. Protecting their IP? Not sure how sending them to a site that has nothing to do with the studio, that already has multiple copies of the movie, will hurt their IP.

I understand the studio wanting to protect its copyrights, but cmon...the girl is going to die any moment and them the site that millions of people already know about?

[Gay State Conservative]

Very decent thing for Pixar to have done.It's still a very sad story,however.

[Maceman]

I took my 10-year old daughter to see this movie last week. This sad, sad story makes me count my blessings.

[fr_freak]

It was a dieing girls last wish. Telling her family the movie website that already has multiple copies of “UP” certainly would not have hurt the company. Protecting their IP? Not sure how sending them to a site that has nothing to do with the studio, that already has multiple copies of the movie, will hurt their IP.

I don't know about that. Until the general release of a movie on DVD, the copies one might find online tend to be cheap bootleg cam jobs. Sometimes, the DVD sent to reviewers for things like the Oscars makes it online, but those usually have all kinds of junk placed on the video (such as color distortion or text messages) to prevent it from being distributed by pirates.

In other words, before the general release of the DVD, the only way for the girl to see a quality representation of the movie was for the studio to send her one, which they did. Good for Pixar.

[ninergold3]

Proof that angels do exist.

[NavyCanDo]

I would love to hear about a final chapter to this sad story, the release of hundreds of colorful balloons at her memorial.

[max americana]

Well said, frf. The copies that the other Freeper mentioned are cam versions and not even an R5’ nor a screener’ which is the earliest pre-DVD versions available. Not worth to “hide the IP”. This is akin to knowing you 24 hours to live and you rob a bank.

I am not surprised that Pixar would allow this event to happen but what sad timing that the child died 7 hours later.

[a fool in paradise]

Isn't she a little young to be watching Russ Meyer films?

Up (1976, co-written by Roger Ebert)

[Centurion2000]

Why would they make a dieing girl wait for a dvd to be flown in?

Think of it this way. Rather than having a cheap bootleg internet copy they HAND-delivered a professional DVD copy for her to watch.

I give them kudos for personal attention they gave her wish.

It's one thing to redirect someone to a web page, it's much more personal to deliver it to their hands by a guy flying cross country.

[JoJo Gunn]

Pixar came to the rescue

Typically pathetic propaganda flourish. The girl died anyway. 

[rlmorel]

Maybe she went out with a smile and some nice thoughts.

Sigh. So young, and the movie meant so much to her.

At least Pixar did it.

[icwhatudo]

I agree with you that sending the DVD copy is better than a poor quality online version, but time was the issue here-she was going to die at any moment and it was her last wish. She was desperate to see the movie, not desperate to have dolby surround sound.