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Tim Allen doesn’t need to dwell about retirement — because it’s not on his radar.The “Santa Clauses” actor referenced late sports commentator and NFL coach John Madden and his good friend Jay Leno for his take on taking a full-time break from acting.“I think it was, Madden said it. A football guy said, ‘I’ve never worked a day in my life,'” Allen told The Post.“And for those of us in the moment, my good friend Jay Leno and I both talk about standup. I still do concerts.

Tim Allen and Tom Hanks could be returning as Buzz Lightear and Woody in “Toy Story 5.”On Tuesday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Allen, 70, revealed that he and Hanks, 67, are in talks to get back behind the mic.“Bob Iger, head of Disney, said it was on,” Allen said of a fifth film in the 28-year-old franchise. “He actually said it was going to happen.

the studio laid off 75 employees this week to offset recent losses.Pixar’s once-unquestioned position in the family-movie game of thrones has been rapidly usurped by bloodthirsty competitors. Last weekend, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” raked in a huge $120 million, while Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” just topped $1.3 billion worldwide, making it the third highest-grossing animated film ever after Disney’s “Frozen II” and the remake of “The Lion King,” both from 2019.Audiences are demonstrably interested in animated films — just not in Pixar.Yes, the studio is about to re-enter the fray with “Elemental,” a 3D movie in which the main characters are cutesy fire and water elements, which screens in the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday and opens wide June 16. But critics were unimpressed by its premiere last month at the Cannes Film Festival.

It’s tool time all over again.For the next few months, outspoken comedian and “Home Improvement” star Tim Allen is back on the road performing stand-up comedy all over North America.From May 19 through Aug. 19, the conservative performer — who recently got in trouble for flashing his co-star Pamela Anderson on the “Home Improvement” set in the ’90s — will bring his brazen brand of humor to six venues in Oklahoma, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois.The 69-year-old comic isn’t afraid to cross the line with his material onstage either.“I tell them ‘There’s a whole lot of s— I’m going to say tonight that you’re going to get pissed at,” he told Hour Detroit.

On paper, Pixar was right to think “Lightyear” was going to be a hit. Per usual, the film featured an incredible, star-studded cast.

Deadline reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger had good and bad news on a Q1 earnings call yesterday. The bad first: Disney initiates a $5.5 billion cost-saving plan that nixes 7,000 jobs across the entire company.

Tom Hanks and Tim Allen broke bread for a reunion in Los Angeles.posted a photoSaturday morning showing the co-stars enjoying breakfast a few days ago at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. The actors were wearing shades and they both had their legs crossed while appearing to be deep in conversation.

It’s hard to believe that “Toy Story” debuted almost three decades ago, as so many of us have grown up watching the lexicon of Pixar films that it helped spawn. Some of us who were fortunate to be of an age to remember the first time we saw a fully computer-generated film have now had the opportunity to pass the Pixar magic off to our children or the next generation.

Deadline.“It is with the greatest remorse and sadness to announce that Estelle Harris has passed on this evening at 6:25pm,” Glen Harris told the site.“Her kindness, passion, sensitivity, humor, empathy and love were practivally unrivaled, and she will be terribly missed by all those who knew her.”Harris was known for her distinct high-pitched voice, but she is perhaps best remembered as Estelle Costanza on the NBC sitcom “Seinfeld.”In a 2014 Mother’s Day interview with The Post, she imagined how her TV counterpart and her son may have marked the holiday.“If George Costanza ever made me a meal for Mother’s Day, it would be a fiasco,” she said at the time. “Everythign would turn out awful.

Chris Evans is embodying an iconic Disney character — 's Buzz Lightyear — in the trailer for the highly anticipated spinoff,. Evans voices Buzz in the trailer that dropped on Tuesday, for the film that hits theaters on June 17.In the action-packed trailer, Buzz fights against a massive robot and other foes when he and his colleagues get marooned on a planet.

Chris Evans as the voice of the titular space ranger, from the franchise.Appropriately scored by David Bowie's «Starman,» the trailer offers a few glimpses of familiarity — Buzz's iconic space suit and catchphrase both get a moment to shine — along with a host of new characters and epic scenes that will have fans eagerly awaiting its June 2022 release.

Beloved Mr Potato Head, well-known for his appearance in Toy Story, will now come in a gender-neutral version as Potato Head. Hasbro announced in a public statement that they are releasing a gender neutral Potato Head play-set.

“Toy Story 4” daredevil Duke Caboom may look like an homage to Evel Knievel — but the ambiguously inspired cartoon is now blowing up in the filmmakers’ faces.K&K Promotions, a company which claims rights to the legendary real-life stuntman’s image and likeness, is suing Disney, Pixar and others for their liberal use of Knievel’s persona in the beloved family film, according to a lawsuit filed by attorneys Randall Jones and Ronald DiNicola in US.

decade after the dramatic climax of “Toy Story 3” — wherein the gang find themselves trapped in a garbage incinerator and facing certain annihilation — the film’s director Lee Unkrich has come to confirm just how dark that scene really was.The toys of “Toy Story,” including Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and a rotating cast of dilapidated dolls, had managed to survive being lost inside a Pizza Planet restaurant (“Toy Story”), and getting pilfered by a maniacal, mouth-breathing toy

Tom Hanks has helped to put a smile on the face of a bullied Australian boy named Corona by gifting him with a retro typewriter from his own collection.

Two of Pixar Animation Studios’ earliest employees, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, have won the computer industry’s Turing Prize for their contributions to 3D graphics and CGI filmmaking.