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Keywords: sequel, second-part, number-in-title
name | Cars 2 |
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director | John LasseterBrad Lewis |
producer | Denise Ream |
screenplay | Ben Queen |
story | John LasseterBrad LewisDan Fogelman |
starring | Owen WilsonLarry the Cable GuyMichael CaineEmily MortimerJason IsaacsThomas Kretschmann |
music | Michael Giacchino |
cinematography | Jeremy LaskySharon Calahan |
editing | Stephen Schaffer |
studio | Pixar |
distributor | Walt Disney Pictures |
released | |
runtime | 106 minutes |
country | |
language | English |
budget | $200 million |
gross | $521,960,986 }} |
The film was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and was released in the United States on June 24, 2011. The film was presented in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as traditional two-dimensional and IMAX formats. The film was first announced in 2008, alongside ''Up'', ''Newt'', and ''Brave'' (previously known as ''The Bear and the Bow''), and it is the 12th animated film from the studio. The film opened to mixed/average reviews from critics, and is Pixar's worst reviewed feature film to date. It is also the studio's lowest-grossing film in North America since ''A Bug's Life''. Despite this, it continued the studio's streak of box office success, ranking #1 on its opening weekend in the U.S. and and Canada with $66,135,507.
Meanwhile, a group of "lemon" cars led by Professor Zündapp and an unknown mastermind owns the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. They secretly plot to secure their oil profits by using a weapon disguised as a television camera to ignite the Allinol fuel in targeted race cars during the World Grand Prix; with no apparent cause for the explosions, the public would doubt the fuel's safety and depend further on the group's oil. British spies Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell attempt to foil their plot. They attempt to rendezvous with American spy car Rod "Torque" Redline at a World Grand Prix promotional event in Tokyo in order to receive information about the mastermind; however, Redline is cornered by Zündapp's henchmen and passes his information to an unsuspecting Mater before being captured and subsequently killed. As a result, Shiftwell and McMissile mistake Mater as their American contact.
During the first race in Tokyo, McMissile and Holley help a still-oblivious Mater evade Zündapp's henchmen; in the process, Mater inadvertently gives McQueen bad advice which causes him to lose the race. Meanwhile, Zündapp uses the weapon on several race cars. At the end of his patience with Mater's embarrassing behavior as well as causing his loss, McQueen berates Mater, who decides to return to Radiator Springs. McMissile, who still believes Mater is an American spy, drafts him into foiling Zündapp's plot.
In Italy, the site of the second race, a disguised Mater infiltrates the criminals' meeting and discovers Zündapp's plan. Zündapp's henchmen, meanwhile, use their weapon on most of the cars during the race. With the Allinol fuel under suspicion, Axlerod suspends its use for the final race in England; however, McQueen decides to continue using it. The criminals decide to kill McQueen in the next race; upon hearing this, Mater blows his cover and is captured along with McMissile and Shiftwell.
Rendered unconscious, Mater has a mortifying dream where he sees his recent activities in a different perspective and realizes how foolish he has been acting, until he wakes up tied up inside Big Bentley along with McMissile and Shiftwell, minutes away from being crushed by its gears. The criminals use the weapon on McQueen during the race, but nothing happens. Mater manages to escape in order to warn his friends of a bomb planted in McQueen's pit area, but McMissile and Shiftwell find that the bomb was planted on Mater. They warn Mater about the bomb just in time, and Mater flees to protect his friends. However, he is pursued by a repentant McQueen determined to make amends to his friend, unaware of the real danger until they are out of range of Zündapp's remote detonator. He sends his henchmen to kill McQueen and Mater, but they are foiled by the combined efforts of McMissile, Shiftwell, and the Radiator Springs residents. Upon his capture, Zündapp reveals that only the person who installed the bomb can deactivate it. Mater then figures out that the mastermind behind the Allinol plot is Miles Axlerod. Axlerod confirms Mater's suspicion when Mater confronts him and he is able to deactivate the bomb.
For stopping Axlerod's plans, Mater is knighted by the Queen and returns home with his friends, where the cars from the Grand Prix take part in the unofficial Radiator Springs Grand Prix. Fillmore reveals that before the last race, Sarge replaced Lightning's Allinol with Fillmore's organic fuel, which prevented Lightning from being affected by the weapon. McMissile and Shiftwell invite Mater to join them in another spy mission, but he declines, claiming that he is where he belongs.
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''Cars 2'' was originally scheduled for a summer 2012 release, but Pixar moved the release up by a year.
In 2009, Disney registered several domain names, hinting to audiences that the title and theme of the film would be in relation to a ''World Grand Prix''.
In March 2011, Jake Mandeville-Anthony, a U.K. screenwriter, sued Disney and Pixar alleging copyright infringement and breach of implied contract. In his complaint he alleged that ''Cars'' and ''Cars 2'' are based in part on work that he had submitted early in the 1990s and he sought an injunction to stop the release of ''Cars 2'' and requested actual or statutory damages. On May 13, 2011, Disney responded to the lawsuit, denying "each and every one of Plaintiff's legal claims concerning the purported copyright infringement and substantial similarity of the parties' respective works." On June 22, 2011, the two parties settled the lawsuit, with Mandeville-Anthony receiving a free DVD copy as compensation from the company in advance of the actual DVD release, which is currently scheduled for around November 8.
Much of the cast from the original ''Cars'' remained intact for the sequel, but three voice actors of the original film have died since its release. George Carlin (who voiced Fillmore) died on June 22, 2008 due to heart failure. Fillmore was cast in ''Cars 2'', and was voiced by Lloyd Sherr. Paul Newman (who voiced Doc Hudson) died on September 26, 2008 due to cancer. After Newman's death, Lasseter said they would "see how the story goes with Doc Hudson," before he was eventually written out. In addition, Joe Ranft (who voiced Red) died on August 16, 2005, ten months before the release of ''Cars'', due to an automobile accident. Red appears in the film, but does not speak or vocalize.
name | Cars 2 |
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type | Soundtrack |
artist | Michael Giacchino |
cover | Cars 2 Soundtrack cover.jpg |
released | June 14, 2011 |
genre | Score |
length | 57:00 |
label | Walt Disney |
chronology | Pixar film soundtrack |
last album | ''Toy Story 3''(2010) |
this album | ''Cars 2''(2011) |
next album | ''Brave''(2012) }} |
The ''Cars 2'' soundtrack was released on both CD album and digital download June 14. It is the fourth Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino after ''The Incredibles'', ''Ratatouille'' and ''Up''. It also marks the first time that Giacchino has worked with John Lasseter as a director, as Lasseter had been executive producer on Giacchino's previous three Pixar films.
Of the positive reviews, Peter Travers of ''Rolling Stone'' gave the movie 3 1/2 stars out of four, and said that "the sequel is a tire-burning burst of action and fun with a beating heart under its hood." He also praised its "fluid script" and called it a "winner". Justin Chang of ''Variety'' praised the film, calling it "the rare sequel that improves on its predecessor, this lightning-paced caper-comedy shifts the franchise into high gear with international intrigue, spy-movie spoofery and more automotive puns than [a person] can shake a stickshift at." Roger Ebert of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' gave the film three and a half stars, saying; "At a time when some "grown-up" action films are relentlessly shallow and stupid, here is a movie with such complexity that even the cars sometimes have to pause and explain it to themselves."
''Cars 2'' was released in 4,115 theaters in the USA and Canada on June 24, 2011. This set a record-high for Pixar, surpassing the studios' previous widest release ''Toy Story 3'' (4,028 theaters), and marked the widest release for a G-rated film. It made an estimated $25.7 million on its debut Friday, marking the second-largest opening day for a Pixar film after ''Toy Story 3'''s $41.1 million, but it was still the third least-attended first day for a Pixar film, only ahead of ''Up'' and ''Ratatouille''. It also scored the fourth largest opening day for an animated feature, trailing only ''Toy Story 3'', ''Shrek the Third'' ($38.4 million) and ''The Simpsons Movie'' ($30.8 million). On its opening weekend as a whole, ''Cars 2'' debuted at No.1 with $66.1 million, marking the largest opening weekend for a 2011 animated feature, the fifth largest opening for Pixar, the fourth largest among films released in June and the third largest for a G-rated film. In its second weekend, however, the film dropped 60.3%, the largest second weekend drop ever for a Pixar film, and grossed $26.2 million. Although the film has been a box office success and is the highest-grossing animated feature of 2011 in these regions, it is Pixar's second lowest-grossing film ahead of ''A Bug's Life''.
Overseas, it grossed $42.9 million during its first weekend, finishing at #1. It performed especially well in Russia where it grossed $9,424,378, marking the best opening weekend for a Disney or Pixar animated feature (surpassing ''Tangled's'' $8.9 million and ''WALL-E's'' $5.2 million respectively) and the sixth highest-grossing opening weekend for an animated feature. In Mexico, it made $8,242,857 during its first weekend, marking the fifth largest opening for an animated film and the second-largest for Pixar, trailing only ''Toy Story 3'' ($15.1 million). In Brazil, it earned $5,187,143 on its opening weekend ($7,083,757 with perviews), marking the highest-grossing opening for Pixar and for a Disney animated film. It also premeiered at No.1 with $5,159,522 in Australia, where it debuted simultaneously with ''Kung Fu Panda 2'' and out-grossed it. In New Zealand, it had a Pixar-high of $752,072, which stands as the fourth-largest opening for an animated film. In Ukraine, it earned $931,201 on its opening weekend, marking the largest opening for a Pixar feature, the fifth largest for a Disney film and the fifth largest for an animated film. In Argentina, it debuted at $2,637,484 ($3,094,545 with previews), marking the largest opening weekend for a Pixar film and the second largest among all animated films, behind ''Shrek Forever After's'' $2,866,854 opening. In Portugal and Angola, it debuted with $1,071,952, marking the largest opening weekend for a 2011 animated feature. In South Africa, it earned $1,006,748 on its opening weekend, marking the largest opening for a 2011 animated feature. In Sweden, it scored the largest 3-day opening weekend for an animated film ($2,006,735), surpassing the previous record of ''Tangled'' ($1,828,543). In Finland, it scored the second-largest 3-day opening weekend for an animated title ($966,081) behind ''The Simpsons Movie'' ($1,023,251).
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birth date | October 04, 1956 |
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birth place | Vienna, Austria |
name | Christoph Waltz |
nationality | Austrian, German |
occupation | Actor |
yearsactive | 1977–present }} |
Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He started as a stage actor, performing at venues such as Zurich's Schauspielhaus Zürich, Vienna's Burgtheater, and the Salzburg Festival. He became a prolific actor on television. In 2000, he directed his first film, the TV production ''Wenn man sich traut''.
In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film ''Inglourious Basterds'', Waltz portrayed SS Standartenführer Hans Landa, aka "The Jew Hunter". For this character who is courteous and speaks four languages but is self-serving, cunning and callous, Tarantino feared he "might have written a part that was un-playable". Waltz received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics and the public. In 2009, he began sweeping critics' awards circuits, receiving awards for Best Supporting Actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 67th Golden Globe Awards and the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2009. The following month, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.
Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 82nd Academy Awards. He is also, as of 2010, the only actor to win for appearing in a Quentin Tarantino film. Waltz is a method actor, and continued to portray Landa off the set of ''Inglorious Basterds''. Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Waltz to his film by stating: "I think that Landa is one of the best characters I've ever written and ever will write, and Christoph played it to a tee… It's true that if I couldn't have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made ''Inglourious Basterds''."
Waltz made his next movie ''Water for Elephants'' with Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, directed by Francis Lawrence. It was filmed in Ventura County, California; Georgia; and Tennessee.
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