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CARS 2
Jan 26, 2010 5:56:30 GMT -5
Post by iluvtexas on Jan 26, 2010 5:56:30 GMT -5
Owen Wilson Goes to Japan in Cars 2Cars 2 Release Date Moved upAccording to chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, John Lasseter, the sequel to Cars has been moved up on the studio's schedule. Lasseter told crowd of journalists assembled at the Kodak Theatre recently that Cars 2 has been bumped up to summer 2011, a year ahead of what Disney/Pixar has previously announced in April. He also told MTV that animators are currently working around the clock on the movie, saying the plot will feature Mater getting his passport as he and Lightning McQueen travel around the world. ************************************************ Disney Pixar has released the first images from its production of Cars 2, by way of concept art. The artwork, which was shown as part of the Walt Disney Company's annual report, depicts race car Lighting McQueen competing in Tokyo, Japan, on a track in the shadows on Mt. Fuji. Until now, Pixar has been pretty hush-hush about the upcoming sequel, which is scheduled to hit theaters on June 24, 2011.Previously, the film was described as follows: "All the world's a racetrack as racing superstar Lightning McQueen zooms back into action, with his best friend Mater in tow, to take on the globe's fastest and finest in this thrilling high-octane new installment of the "Cars" saga. Mater and McQueen will need their passports as they find themselves in a new world of intrigue, thrills and fast-paced comedic escapades around the globe."
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CARS 2
Jan 26, 2010 15:54:41 GMT -5
Post by sld1164 on Jan 26, 2010 15:54:41 GMT -5
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CARS 2
Jan 28, 2010 4:25:01 GMT -5
Post by hutchshottie on Jan 28, 2010 4:25:01 GMT -5
I can NOT wait to see this. I LOVE Cars. (yeah I am a big kid!!) so Cars 2 is gonna be awesome. And I will have a 3 year old nephew to take with me for an "excuse to go see it"
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CARS 2
Jan 28, 2010 16:56:19 GMT -5
Post by sld1164 on Jan 28, 2010 16:56:19 GMT -5
KACHOW!
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CARS 2
Sept 9, 2010 4:18:45 GMT -5
Post by hutchshottie on Sept 9, 2010 4:18:45 GMT -5
I think I need to research the release date on this. Got stickers and a sticker book in last week at work. Way too early!!!!
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CARS 2
Jun 20, 2011 14:19:04 GMT -5
Post by iluvtexas on Jun 20, 2011 14:19:04 GMT -5
True Story: When the first "Cars" movie came out I bought my little nephew the movie for Christmas. Turned out his big brother also wanted the movie for Christmas and the situation at the time kinda created a new definition for sharing....so I went out after Christmas against the parents warning "Don't buy a second copy" and purchased a second "Cars" movie anyway so they would both have one and well "sharing returned to it's old definition...
This time around for "Cars II" I am buying two copies (at the same time) and sending each a copy... ;D
PS Again....Another nice interview.... *************************************
HOLLYWOOD, California - Owen Wilson is his usual laid-back, reticent self this morning. But OK, if we insist on asking about such things, it probably is true that he's having a pretty great summer.
He's chatting with reporters in this sterile hotel meeting room on the day that Cars 2 is having its gala world premiere across the street at the venerable El Capitan Theatre. A block of Hollywood Boulevard has already been closed to traffic, and later today, Wilson will be greeted by thousands of cheering fans as he arrives on the red carpet to check out his latest vocal performance as race car Lightning McQueen, the high-speed hero of the town of Radiator Springs.
Yet, it's typical of Wilson that he seems overwhelmed by the whole thing.
Can this really be happening to him?
"I grew up in Dallas, and if I had said I wanted to work in movies, people would have just laughed," he tells us in that laconic Texas drawl. "It seemed impossible."
And now, despite a successful acting career spanning more than a decade, he still seems to feel that he's living the impossible dream.
"This big premiere we're having tonight, that's an exciting thing. If you're just a kid thinking of working on a movie, this is the kind of thing you think of: the excitement of Hollywood."
That kid still lingers in Wilson.
But Pixar Studio's latest animated frolic isn't the only good thing happening to him this summer. His shaggy-haired charm is also on full display in Midnight in Paris, the engaging fantasy that has bolstered Woody Allen's sagging reputation and has earned Wilson some of his best reviews ever.
Yet again, he seems astonished by the film's growing popularity, and by the warm critical response to his performance as Gil, a young writer caught up in a love affair with the City of Light when he pays it a visit. That love affair is so intense that, at midnight, Gil finds himself transported back to the 1920s and a world occupied by his literary heroes:Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and other members of an expatriate American literary circle who made Paris their own in the decade after the First World War.
"I really didn't know, to be honest, whether it was working," Wilson says as he remembers the experience of filming Midnight In Paris last year with co-stars Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Marion Cotillard and Michael Sheen. When he first read Allen's script, he was puzzled. "How's this going to work - this fantastical element when I go on my walks at midnight into this other world? I had my doubts, because a lot of these people that I meet are iconic people from history. Who's going to play them? How's that going to work? But then I see the movie and it works. It's maybe one of the best things in the movie. It was great."
Wilson has never been one of those actors who tries to pursue a set career plan. Indeed, he qualifies a lot of his answers with the phrase "sort of."
"I just sort of see what people are willing to hire you for, and that sort of guides me more than anything.
"Obviously, when you're starting to work on a movie, it's with the hope that it's going to turn out good and that people will want to see it and enjoy it, or be drawn to it, or to whatever it was that interested you. Sometimes, it happens and it does work out, and other times, it misses."
Wilson's lack of ego on the set makes him a favourite of directors. Speaking for himself, he simply figures he's been lucky that, with most of his films, his directors have been open to ideas. "I've always been prepared to collaborate and work with everybody."
Still, the Cars franchise occupies a special place in his affections, and Wilson was enthusiastic when he discovered that the new film takes Lightning and his tow-truck buddy Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) into the fiercely competitive world of international racing, and also embroils them in a spy caper.
In 2006, while on a European publicity tour for the original Cars, Wilson attended the Grand Prix in Spain with director John Lasseter. For Wilson, who was most familiar with oval-track racing in the U.S., that day was a revelation. "The spectacle and the sound of Formula One racing is something unbelievable." He ended up a diehard racing fan.
The computer geniuses at Pixar have created a variety of exotic settings - Japan, Italy, France, England - as Lightning competes in the first-ever World Grand Prix, and finds himself pitting his down-home approach against the polished and boastful brilliance of Italian car ace, Francesco Bernoulli (John Turturro). To complicate matters further, a suave British spy named Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) mistakes the unsophisticated Mater for another undercover agent, and involves him in a top-secret mission against international villains set on destroying the Grand Prix.
When Wilson found himself back in the recording studio to start delivering Lightning's latest lines, it was as though he had never been away.
"I would say it came right back. I was excited that John Lasseter was directing again, so it was kind of nice to be working with him, and this story was kind of more fun to do than the first one, I think because my character was already established.
"With the first one, it was figuring out the tone. With this one, it's just kind of this great adventure that these characters were on. And I liked the friendship between Mater and Lightning McQueen."
Wilson has never owned a vehicle as nifty as the sleek racing machine he plays in the Cars films. His personal automobile tastes are more modest. The first car he ever owned was a Chevrolet Blazer - "a blue one that I later wrecked driving back to Dallas after my first year at USC."
And how did that happen? Well, his parents didn't want him to drive straight through without a break, but he assured them he'd be fine. "And I drove straight through, and I was probably tired, and I had an accident where the car went off the road. The car was totalled."
These days, the green-minded Wilson drives a Prius. "It sounds like a golf cart when you put it in reverse," he says.
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CARS 2
Jun 20, 2011 14:27:23 GMT -5
Post by iluvtexas on Jun 20, 2011 14:27:23 GMT -5
and another interview....
Owen Wilson doesn't like listening to his own voice
Wilson: I'm not a fan of my voice....
Owen Wilson has confessed that despite starring in Pixar's hit Cars and its sequel, he doesn't enjoy the sound of his own voice.
The 42-year-old actor returns as race car Lightning McQueen in Cars 2, but speaking at the film's world premiere in Los Angeles, he revealed his insecurities on the subject.
He said: "Do I love my voice? I can't say that I love my voice.
"I think I'm like most people, where you hear your voice on an answering machine and you're like 'who is that, that doesn't sound like me.' "
But after two years of recording for Cars 2, Owen has had plenty of time to adjust.
"I've probably gotten more used to it," he told reporters.
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CARS 2
Jun 25, 2011 20:16:22 GMT -5
Post by iluvtexas on Jun 25, 2011 20:16:22 GMT -5
'Cars 2' wins Friday box office with $25.7 million, on the Way to $70M+ Weekend Congrats to Owen, Larry, the rest of the cast and the movie's crews... Well done!!!
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CARS 2
Jun 27, 2011 5:28:17 GMT -5
Post by iluvtexas on Jun 27, 2011 5:28:17 GMT -5
Way to Go..... Congrats.... "Cars 2" cruised to a No. 1 finish with a $68 million opening according to studio estimates Sunday.
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CARS 2
Jun 28, 2011 13:15:49 GMT -5
Post by hutchshottie on Jun 28, 2011 13:15:49 GMT -5
I am not one for reading reviews, I hate it when my husband does. But anyone else seen this, reviews are saying it lacks Pixar quality again.
Not that I am worried. They weren't keen on the first but I LOVE it.
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CARS 2
Jun 28, 2011 13:20:50 GMT -5
Post by sld1164 on Jun 28, 2011 13:20:50 GMT -5
yeah, the whole Cars franchize seems to be doing well, regardless of reviews.
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CARS 2
Jun 28, 2011 14:01:27 GMT -5
Post by iluvtexas on Jun 28, 2011 14:01:27 GMT -5
I did not read that. Actually I read just the opposite...Either way if someone does not or did not like the movie oh well because a whole bunch of people do love it, the numbers say it all....68 million!!!! Owen hits another home run....Congrats....
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