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Post by flygirl2000 on Mar 13, 2006 12:00:03 GMT -5
Works great! Thanks. I'm so looking forward to taking my nieces and nefrews to this flick.
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Post by ozarka on Mar 15, 2006 20:29:52 GMT -5
This is great news! I hope it is just as well received when it is released to the public!
Cars" wows theater owners in first public screening
Reuters By Gina KeatingWed Mar 15, 3:00 PM ET
Movie theater owners gave an enthusiastic reception to Pixar Animation Studios Inc.'s film "Cars" at its first public screening at a Las Vegas trade show late on Tuesday.
Expectations are high for the movie since Pixar, which has agreed to be bought by Walt Disney Co., has an unbroken series of hits and makes films at the pace of about one a year.
The G-rated movie, set for release on June 9, tells the story of up-and-coming race car Lightning McQueen, who learns to savor life in the slow lane after becoming trapped in a once-thriving Route 66 town that the freeway bypassed and the world forgot.
"I thought it was a great movie," said Kevin MacLeod, executive vice president of Empire Co Ltd's Empire Theatres, a Nova Scotia-based chain with 380 screens. MacLeod said he believed the film would have the same broad appeal as Pixar's biggest hit "Finding Nemo."
Theater owners have a vested interest in the success of the movie, since their business is selling movie tickets, but Sanders Morris Harris financial analyst David Miller was in the audience and called it "outstanding." "If there is any film you know is going to be a hit, it's this one," he said on Wednesday.
Another attendee, who asked not to be named, described the film's race-car-themed story line and folksy soundtrack, featuring songs by Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley, as "the perfect antidote to (gay cowboy movie) 'Brokeback Mountain"' for more conservative red-state audiences.
Mark Walukevich, vice president of international films for National Amusements, which operates 1,425 screens in the United States, Britain, Latin America and Russia, said "Cars" was "fantastic."
"On a scale of one to 10, it was an 11," he said. "The digital presentation was excellent, the sound track was great. I think internationally it will be a huge hit."
"Cars" is the first film since 1999's "Toy Story 2" to be directed by Pixar's creative director John Lasseter, who described the film on Tuesday as "very personal." Lasseter said he was on a cross-country trip with his wife and sons when he got the idea for "Cars," which features the voices of Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, John Ratzenberger and racer Richard Petty. "I had been working nonstop through the '90s ... and my wife Nancy said, 'Be careful, your boys may go off to college and you will have missed it,"' Lasseter said. The theme of "Cars" mirrors what Lasseter said he learned on his family road trip: "The journey in life is the reward ... and it's that much more special when you have somebody to share it with."
Lasseter said Pixar aimed to "over-deliver" on "Cars" by packaging the film for theaters with the studio's Oscar-nominated short film "One Man Band" and bonus material interleavened with the film's credits. "Stay at the end of the credits," Lasseter told exhibitors on Tuesday before the show. "I pulled out the stops on the credits."
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Post by Remi on Mar 16, 2006 13:53:30 GMT -5
Thanks Oz! I think it is going to be a big hit! Here's the new poster. Click Here
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Post by flygirl2000 on Mar 16, 2006 14:18:24 GMT -5
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Post by thumper on Mar 16, 2006 20:13:36 GMT -5
I'm sooooooo happy for Owen (and Pixar). I have to admit I was a little worried there with all of Pixar/Disney's problems. Now hurry up summer. I want to see this movie!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Remi on Mar 18, 2006 7:37:17 GMT -5
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Post by booboo on Mar 18, 2006 10:24:10 GMT -5
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Post by thumper on Mar 19, 2006 12:36:50 GMT -5
Probably the only chance we'll get of holding Owen Wilson's body...hahaha! Oh those poor abused toys!!! Are batteries included??
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Post by booboo on Mar 19, 2006 18:37:22 GMT -5
Are batteries included??
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!
You're a riot, Thumper
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Post by flygirl2000 on Mar 20, 2006 13:42:08 GMT -5
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Post by booboo on Mar 21, 2006 0:15:42 GMT -5
To all Aussie supporters Cars will be released in Australia on the 8th June.
Edited to add...That's what is listed on Village with a TBC next to it. It's not listed on Hoyts as yet.
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Post by Remi on Mar 22, 2006 6:59:18 GMT -5
from The Charlotte Observer I wish I could go!
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Post by hutchshottie on Mar 22, 2006 13:39:49 GMT -5
You could be there in spirit Remi Oh is that WITH spirits!!!?
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Post by Remi on Mar 22, 2006 13:50:46 GMT -5
If they change the premiere to Saturday, I'll be there! I just can't do Friday. Two new Cars posters... Click Here actually, I think I've seen/posted the first one already.
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Post by hutchshottie on Mar 23, 2006 3:43:43 GMT -5
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