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Cars is a 2006 animated feature film produced by Pixar and
directed by both John Lasseter and Joe Ranft. It was the seventh Disney/Pixar
feature film, and the final film by Pixar before it was bought by Disney.
Set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic cars and other
vehicles, it features the voices of Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman,
Cheech Marin, Jenifer Lewis, Tony Shalhoub, John Ratzenberger, George
Carlin, Michael Keaton, and Larry the Cable Guy, as well as cameos by
several celebrities consisting of Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bob Costas, Darrell
Waltrip, Jay Leno, Michael Schumacher, and Mario Andretti.
Cars premiered on May 26, 2006 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North
Carolina, and was released on June 9, 2006, to generally favorable
reviews. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Animated
Feature, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. It
was released on DVD in late 2006 and on Blu-ray Disc in late 2007. Related
merchandise, including scale models of several of the cars, broke records
for retail sales of merchandise based on a Disney/Pixar film, with an
estimated $1 billion in sales.
In its opening weekend, Cars grossed $60.1 million, lower
than previous Pixar films such as The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. In the
United States, the film held onto the #1 spot for two weeks before being
surpassed by Click and then by
Superman
Returns the following weekend. It went on to gross US $461,981,604
worldwide (ranking #6 in 2006 films) and $244,082,982 in the U.S. (the
third highest-grossing film of 2006 in the country, behind
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and
Night at the Museum). It was the highest-grossing animated film of
2006 in the U.S., but lost to
Ice Age:
The Meltdown in worldwide totals. |