Bangkok--2 Jun--Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Genre: Animation-Comedy/Adventure
The return of Disney Pixar’s TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2 to the big screen kicks off a Disney Digital 3D? Toy Story celebration, which culminates in a brand new adventure starring Buzz and Woody: “Toy Story 3”— in theaters August 12, 2010.
TOY STORY
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn,
John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris, Erik von Detten,
Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey
Director: John Lasseter
Producers: Ralph Guggenheim, Bonnie Arnold
Executive Producers: Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs
Original Story by: John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft
Screenplay by: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow
Music by: Randy Newman
They’re toys, they talk—at least when people aren’t around—and they’re back… celebrating the return of the “Toy Story” franchise—this time in Disney Digital 3D?! TOY STORY, the film that started it all, takes moviegoers back to that fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through the eyes of two rival toys— Woody (voice of TOM HANKS), the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear (voice of TIM ALLEN), the fearless space ranger. The comically-mismatched duo eventually learn to put aside their differences when circumstances separate them from their owner Andy and they find themselves on a hilarious adventure-filled mission where the only way they can survive is to form an uneasy alliance.
TOY STORY 2
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles,
Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts,
Wayne Knight, John Morris, Laurie Metcalf, Estelle Harris, R. Lee Ermey,
Jodi Benson
Director: John Lasseter
Co-directors: Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon
Producers: Helene Plotkin, Karen Robert Jackson
Executive Producers: Sarah McArthur
Original Story by: John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton
Screenplay by: Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb
Music by: Randy Newman
Disney?Pixar’s TOY STORY 2 picks up as Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin (voice of WAYNE KNIGHT), owner of Al's Toy Barn, kidnaps Woody (voice of TOM HANKS). At Al's apartment, Woody discovers that he is a highly valued collectible from a 1950s TV show called “Woody's Roundup," and he meets the other prized toys from that show - Jessie the cowgirl (voice of JOAN CUSACK), Bullseye the horse and Stinky Pete the Prospector (voice of KELSEY GRAMMER). Back at the scene of the crime, Buzz Lightyear (voice of TIM ALLEN) and the gang from Andy's room — Mr. Potato Head (voice of DON RICKLES), Slinky Dog (voice of JIM VARNEY), Rex (voice of WALLACE SHAWN) and Hamm (voice of JOHN RATZENBERGER) — spring into action to rescue their pal from winding up as a museum piece. The toys get into one predicament after another in their daring race to get Woody home before Andy returns.
1 TICKET 2 MOVIES 3 DIMENSIONS
July 1, 2010
Only in Disney Digital 3D
Notes:
- TOY STORY, originally released on November 22, 1995, was the first fully computer animated feature film and the highest grossing movie of the year with nearly $192 million domestically and $362 million worldwide.
- The four people behind the original story of TOY STORY—John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and the late Joe Ranft—are the key creatives (writers and/or directors) responsible for most of Disney?Pixar's subsequent releases: "A Bug's Life," "Toy Story 2," "Monsters, Inc." "Finding Nemo," “Cars," "WALL?E" and the 2009 release "Up."
- TOY STORY was nominated for three Academy Awards? and two Golden Globes.? TOY STORY 2 was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture/Comedy Musical. TOY STORY 2 also won a Grammy? for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media (Randy Newman, “When She Loved Me”).
- Director John Lasseter was awarded a Special Achievement Award (Oscar?) by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his “inspired leadership of the Pixar TOY STORY team, resulting in the first feature-length computer-animated film."
- John Lasseter made his feature film directing debut with TOY STORY in 1995. He has since directed such Pixar classics as “A Bug’s Life,” TOY STORY 2 and “Cars” and served as executive producer of all other Pixar films to date. He is currently the chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and principal creative advisor of Walt Disney Imagineering.
- TOY STORY 2 is the first animated sequel to gross more than its original.
- TOY STORY 2 broke opening weekend box office records in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan, and became the highest grossing animated release of 1999 with more than $245 million in domestic box office receipts and $485 million worldwide.
- TOY STORY 2 is the first film ever to be entirely created, mastered and exhibited digitally.