Toy Story fans,rejoice. Pixar will release two new short films starring Woody and pals by years end. The first short,Hawaiian Vacation,will run with Cars 2,which will arrive in theatres on June 24. Pixar unveiled Hawaiian Vacation at a gathering of about 300 Disney investors and analysts in Anaheim,Calif.,on Thursday. The second shorta title was not announcedwill run with The Muppets,a Disney feature film set for Thanksgiving release. In related Pixar news,Disney announced a direct-to-DVD spin-off of Cars,with airplanes as the main characters. Planes,undoubtedly accompanied by related merchandise,will arrive in spring 2013. The movie will focus on Dusty,a small-town dreamer who longs to enter an around-the-world air race despite his fear of heights. Steig Larssons longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson has written her version of their life together. Millennium,Stieg and Me is a slim memoir published in France,Sweden and Norway last month with a co-author. Gabrielsson claims that Larsson,wrote more than 200 pages of a sequel to his three-part Millennium series-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest before his sudden death in 2004. She has been seeking the legal authority to finish it; his family has refused. Gabrielsson does not claim to be Larssons ghostwriter for the Millennium series,which has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide,but writes that he could not have written it without her. The book will be published in the United States in June. Bobby Fischer,considered as one of the greatest chess players of all time,who died in 2008,was seen in a documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World at the Sundance Film Festival in the US last month. Audiences who may not know the story of Fischers brilliant but disturbed life will get a chance to learn about it this summer and fall. Music Box Films had bought the US theatrical distribution rights to the documentary. The film centers on Fischers rise to the top of the chess world,his match for the world title against Boris Spassky and his descent into madness and exile in his later years.
