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UPDATED: Pixar's Cars, Disney's Chicken Little release dates moved

Walt Disney and Pixar have announced that they are moving the release date of Pixar's upcoming animated feature film, Cars, from November 2005 to June 9, 2006. Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios said, "The move from November 2005 to June 2006 makes perfect sense. Cars is the quintessential summer film for audiences of all ages... In the vein of Finding Nemo, we feel the movie will have legs throughout summer and beyond". Pixar CEO Steve Jobs said, "Cars longs to be a summer movie. We plan to finish Cars on its original schedule, and look forward to Cars and our future films benefiting by summer theatrical releases and holiday DVD releases". Release dates in other countries have also been set for summer 2006 - France on July 12, Germany and Switzerland on July 13, the UK and Spain on July 14, Japan on July 15 and Italy on September 1.

UPDATE: Disney will also move the opening of Chicken Little from July 1, 2005, to Cars' orignial opening date on November 4, 2005.

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Arrrrgh! Now I have to wait even longer to see Cars!
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 12-09-2004, 03:04 PM:
 
Guess they better come up with something else to bolster their '05 Christmas season, because that Chicken Little sure isn't gonna do it.
 

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Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 12-09-2004, 04:19 PM:
 
Looks like Shrek 3 will be moved to May 2007
 

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 12-09-2004, 05:46 PM:
 
Poor Mike. How will you live?
 

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Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 12-09-2004, 05:54 PM:
 
Great, now it's even more ridiculous to run these contract trailers on Incredibles. Just when I wasn't feeling quite ridiculous enough
 

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