Toon Zone posted a report of the Disney/Pixar event at NYCC, with impressions of Pixar’s new Up.

I have to admit I’m somewhat torn about how to cover Up — on the one hand, it’s more movie magic from Pixar, but on the other, Up seems like the kind of movie where knowing more about it will ruin some wonderful, delightful surprises. Seeing the four clips beforehand just gave away exactly where a lot of the early minutes of the movie were leading up to. So, I’ll report that Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles and Ratatouille) is set to start scoring Up next week and Docter and Rivera are excited about that, and the Pixar crew is heading up to Skywalker Ranch to do sound design of the movie in March. Beyond that, my advice is that you should do yourself a solid and stop reading when you hit the silly photo coming up. Just go buy your tickets when the movie opens up on May 29, 2009.

TZ also covers the Q&A session afterward, at which Pixar gave a pretty firm statement on its first live-action film: “They’re not talking about John Carter of Mars yet. So don’t ask.”

Source: NYCC2009: Spending Time with Disney/Pixar’s “Up” (and, Disney’s “Surrogates”)