The Los Angeles Times milked a few more details out of La Luna writer/director, Enrico Casarosa. The article discusses some of the early decision making for the film, the pacing of the short, and more background on the story. It will be Pixar's longest short film to date at around 7 minutes. It also offers some enlightenment on dialog decisions in the short:

The film has no dialogue in English, nor in Italian. Words exchanged between the characters are in gibberish, which wasn’t easy to make work. Lasseter thought the gibberish was annoying when Casarosa and his editor contributed their own voices for a temp track.

LA Times

Once they tried some actors experienced with gibberish that more closely matched the feel of the characters, they decided to keep the gibberish script.

La Luna is competing against 9 other short films for the Best Animated Short Oscar next month and will be released with Bravenext June.

While still awaiting the final Oscar nominees amid a field of 18 contenders, Cars 2 seems to be in the top tier of Animated Films according to the Golden Globes and the Producers Guild Awards. It has made the five film cut for both awards.

The Golden Globes take place on Sunday, January 15th. The nominees in for Best Animated Feature are:

• The Adventures of Tintin
• Arthur Christmas
• Cars 2
• Puss in Boots
• Rango

The Producers Guild Awards are awarded on Saturday, January 21st. The producers competing in the Theatrical Animation category represent the films:

• The Adventures of Tintin — Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg
• Cars 2 — Denise Ream
• Kung Fu Panda 2 — Melissa Cobb
• Puss in Boots — Joe M. Aguilar, Latifa Ouaou
• Rango — John B. Carls, Gore Verbinski

UP, released first in theaters in May 2009, was Pixar's first film to be released in 3D from the start, but the home video version has been a long time coming. The wait is soon coming to an end, however, according to the German Pixar Blog.

The blog pegs March 8th, 2012 as the official release date of the 3 disc combo pack. The only thing that is unclear, is whether that date applies to Germany, the United States or both. I'll post further details here as they become available.

UPDATE: UP 3D was not released on blu-ray last May, but is coming December 2012.