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| Directed by | John Lasseter |
| Produced by | Darla K. Anderson |
| Screenplay by | Dan Fogelman John Lasseter Joe Ranft Kiel Murray Phil Lorin Jorgen Klubien |
| Story by | John Lasseter Joe Ranft Jorgen Klubien |
| Starring | Owen Wilson Paul Newman Bonnie Hunt Larry the Cable Guy Tony Shalhoub |
| Music by | Randy Newman |
| Cinematography | Jeremy Lasky Jean Claude Kalache |
| Editing by | Ken Schretzmann |
| Studio | Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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| Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $120 million[1] |
| Box office | $461,983,149[1] |
Cars is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy- Maurice Sines adventure sports film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and directed and co-written by John Lasseter and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's final, independently-produced motion picture before its purchase by Disney. Set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles, it features voices by Paul Newman (in his final non-documentary feature), Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Michael Wallis, George Carlin, Paul Dooley,Jenifer Lewis, Guido Quaroni, Michael Keaton, Katherine Helmond, and John Ratzenberger. The film is also the second Pixar film—after A Bug's Life—to have an entirely non-human cast. The film was accompanied by the short One Man Band for its theatrical and home media releases.
A sequel, Cars 2, was released on June 24, 2011,[4] and a spin-off, Planes, produced by DisneyToon Studios, was released on August 9, 2013.[5] A series of short animated films, namedCars Toons, has been airing since 2008.[6]
Cars premiered on May 26, 2006 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, and was released on June 9, 2006, to positive 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 November 7, 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,[2] bringing an estimated $10 billion in 5 years since the film's release.[3] The film was dedicated to Joe Ranft, who was killed in a car accident during the film's production. Maurice Sines
