Disney/Pixar Scares Up Laughs and Fun With Release of Theatrical Trailer

Disney/Pixar Scares Up Laughs and Fun With Release of Theatrical Trailer for Upcoming 'Monsters, Inc.'
Trailer, Featuring First Film Footage to Be Shown Publicly, Enters Theaters Nationwide on June 15th

Moviegoers will be able to get their first look at film footage from the highly-anticipated Walt Disney Pictures release of Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." when the theatrical trailer is available for broadcast via satellite and on the internet at www.monstersinc.com and www.apple.com beginning Friday, June 8th. The trailer will also begin its theatrical run that day in exclusive engagements with Walt Disney Pictures' "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" in Los Angeles (at the El Capitan Theatre) and New York (at Clearview Cinemas Ziegfeld Theatre), before opening nationwide on June 15th. A Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Animation Studios film, "Monsters, Inc." is a comedy with an all-star voice cast set in the world of things that go bump in the night and will be released nationwide on November 2nd, 2001.

"Monsters, Inc." is being created and produced by Pixar at its Northern California studios and is directed by Pete Docter, an Oscar® nominee for his role in creating the original story for "Toy Story," and co-directed by David Silverman, the Emmy Award-winning supervising director of "The Simpsons," and Lee Unkrich, co-director of the Golden Globe-winner "Toy Story 2." Darla Anderson ("A Bug's Life") is the producer with John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton serving as executive producers.

Monsters, Incorporated is the largest scare factory in the monster world and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) is the top kid Scarer. Sullivan is a huge, intimidating monster with blue fur, large purple spots, and horns. His Scare Assistant, best friend and roommate is Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), a feisty, one-eyed, green ball of a monster. The cast of characters also includes the factory's CEO, a crablike monster named Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn) and the snake-headed, beguiling receptionist Celia (Jennifer Tilly). One of the top Scarers is a sarcastic chameleon monster named Randall Boggs (Steve Buscemi). Visiting from the human world is Boo (Mary Gibbs), a tiny girl who goes where no human has ever gone before.

-- Posted June 8, 2001

Source: Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios Press Release