 Opening weekend Domestic Box Office for Cars is estimated at $62 Million. While coming in shy of the records set by previous Pixar films like Finding Nemo, it still becomes the fourth highest opening of 2006. For those that have had a chance to see Cars, you can rate/review it here .
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CONCORD, N.C. - They have turned ones and zeros into magic. They have made fish and bugs talk. They have brought out the emotional inner life of toys, monsters and now cars.
With those successes, the brains behind Pixar Animation Studios - filmmaker John Lasseter and company president, and Utah native, Ed Catmull - now face a tougher challenge: Bringing the Disney Animation Studios, home of Mickey Mouse and the Little Mermaid, back to life.
The Walt Disney Company's $7.4 billion acquisition of Pixar last January brings together the venerated Disney studio, which has been in a creative slump, with the high-tech Pixar, which is riding a winning streak since "Toy Story" debuted in 1995.
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Cars, the animated road-trip movie from Walt Disney Co.'s Pixar, opened at No. 1 in North America, missing analysts' projections with an estimated $62.8 million in ticket sales.
The film was expected to bring in $72 million, the average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. ``Cars'' was the third-highest opener of the six produced by Pixar, film tracker Exhibitor Relations Co. said in a statement.
`Cars'' is the first movie from Pixar since Disney completed the $8.06 billion purchase of its former partner last month. Its lukewarm reception may be a setback for Disney Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger, 55, who gambled that Pixar can extend its streak of six straight hits and revive the animation department.``Cars,'' written and directed by John Lasseter, features the voice of Owen Wilson as a race car named Lightning McQueen. After he's stranded in the desert town of Radiator Springs, McQueen has to re-evaluate his goal of competing in for a championship. The film also features the voices of Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin and Paul Newman.
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Softimage has announced the release of version 1 of their new facial animation software - Face Robot. Although the price is not mentioned on their website, it is believed to be very expensive compared to today's animation software costs. The following is taken directly from Softimage's website:
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 DreamWorks Animation has updated the website for Flushed Away. You can find the trailer (trailer #1, released several weeks ago) and story information. The official website is here. This trailer is also up in the "You-Review" section of CGCHAR .
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust “society mouse” who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Syd comes spewing out of the sink and decides he’s hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the “whirlpool.” Syd may be an ignorant slob, but he’s no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad—who royally despises all rodents equally, making no distinction between mice and rats—wants them iced…literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin—that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.
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