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Toy Story 3 crosses the 1 billion mark today:

The Walt Disney Studios announced today that Toy Story 3 will surpass the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office today. It marks the first time a studio will have two $1 billion movies in one year:

Two weeks after becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time, Disney-Pixar's Toy Story 3 will cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office today, joining Alice in Wonderland as the second $1 billion film this year from The Walt Disney Studios – the first studio in history to accomplish this feat. Disney first crossed the $1 billion threshold with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2006. Toy Story 3 becomes the only animated film to reach this milestone and the seventh title in industry history.

"It's been an incredible year as we saw the Pixar team bring Buzz and Woody back to the big screen and watched Tim Burton's vision for Alice in Wonderland take the world by storm," said Rich Ross, Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios. "These box office triumphs prove that creative storytelling brought to life by imaginative, inspired and talented professionals is something audiences respond to the world over."

As of Thursday (8/26/10), Toy Story 3 tallied more than $592.9 million internationally, Disney's largest international animated release. Latin American audiences have contributed $138 million making Toy Story 3 the highest grossing Disney film ever released in the region. Toy Story 3 is the most successful UK release in Disney history and currently stands as the fourth biggest title in territory history with $102.4 million in box office receipts so far. In Japan, the film has taken in $111.2 million and spent five consecutive weeks as the #1 movie. Toy Story 3 currently ranks as the #7 film in global box office history and domestically ranks #9 with $404.6 million in receipts to date.

Alice in Wonderland began setting records during its opening weekend (March 5-7), becoming the biggest March opening in industry history, the highest 3D opening ever and The Walt Disney Studios' biggest opening for a non-sequel film. Internationally, the film went on to tally more than $690 million, becoming Disney's biggest overseas release of all time and the fourth biggest title ever released overseas. Worldwide, the film took in $1.0243 billion, ranking it as the #5 film in global box office history.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=69258

Congrats Pixar! :thumbs:

[dagobert]

Congrats to Disney and of course Pixar. Pixar proved again that they are the best in the Animation business.
With all the money Disney made with the Pixar movies, the purchase of Pixar is paid off.

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Just returned from the cinema - what a ride! I guess Pixar cannot make a bad movie, this however is one of their best.

They took it up a step from Toy Story to Toy Story 2, but they took it several steps up from Toy Story 2 to this one. This is a piece of art not just a piece of entertainment (like many animation movies including some from Pixar). Not the best from Pixar, that is still Wall-E for me.

Well, eventhough I guess most of you have seen it already it will be in a spoiler

[spoiler:23738g82]The start of the movie: this delivers the half hour of classic Toy Story action - great fun, but not more than this. It has some moments like when Buzz and Woody just look at each other after the "phone trick" and the look from Woody when placed in the "college" box away from the others.

The time at Sunnyside: This was great! I loved the characters and the plot of it being a prison. The references to one of the best movies ever Shawshank Redemption was subtle but great. This was also the part that has the killer joke line for me, when Ken and Barbie say to each other that it was like they were made for each other. Spanish Buzz was great fun too - something to put a smile upon your face in a dark part of the movie.

Woody's time at Bonnies: A small part of the movie, but a significant part. The way Woody smiled after the playtime, showed him what being a toy is all about - making connections and making your kid happy. Mr. Pricklepants was AMAZINGLY funny!!

The escape: Reminded me a bit of some of the scenes from the other movies, but it was great fun.

The last 15 minutes was for me the most powerful of a Pixar movie (beating the silent passage in the beginning of UP with the length of Buzz Lightyear button.). The scene at the dump had you on the edge of your seat - at one point  actually thought they were going to kill them off - for me a hard but brave ending showing the gang's togetherness and the fact that together you are strong. But this would have made the movie non child friendly. The scene where they all hold hands was the first emotional highlight of this 15 minutes. The tears was pushing but were interupted by the brilliant part with the claw - a stroke of genius!

The end scene was perfect and for me aged 20, it was very emotional and I almost cried. I watched the first movies while playing with my toys and now I'm grown up and withing the next couple of years I am going away. It just hit me very deep and thinking about now I get very emotional too. It is the perfect ending of the series and please do not make a TS4 - that would be sad. The one who said that this is Andy's story was absolutely right and this was proofed by this ending.

The scenes during the credits cheered you up and you were leaving the theater with a big smile and not as an emotional mess, although you had been it just 3 minutes earlier. Pixar magic[/spoiler:23738g82]

It has the perfect mix of emotions, jokes, action and movie connections/spoofs and it is a 9.50 for me. The only thing a bit too silly for me was [spoiler:23738g82]Mr. Tortilla Head[/spoiler:23738g82]

[-breeno-]

Heard about this earlier today through my cousin, this seems like the best place to show it.

Toy Story trilogy 10 disc box set revealed!!


What you get in the box:

Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 Blu-Rays
Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 DVDs
Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 Digital Copies
Special features DVD(s?)

Link

No idea on the price yet - or if it will even make it's wait over to Europe - but I'd expect it to cost an arm and a Mr Potato Head (see what I did there?.. yes it was cheesy  :mrgreen: ).  As someone who doesn't have any Toy Story movies on DVD let alone Blu-Ray this is something I might consider, if it isn't too steep that is

[Anthony]

Lee Unkrich is awesome.

[youtube:kcobf1i5]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOsHUNIuIo[/youtube:kcobf1i5]

[Soap]

So cool and such a hero!  

[sebassah]

Heard about this earlier today through my cousin, this seems like the best place to show it.

Toy Story trilogy 10 disc box set revealed!!


What you get in the box:

Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 Blu-Rays
Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 DVDs
Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 Digital Copies
Special features DVD(s?)

Link

No idea on the price yet - or if it will even make it's wait over to Europe - but I'd expect it to cost an arm and a Mr Potato Head (see what I did there?.. yes it was cheesy  :mrgreen: ).  As someone who doesn't have any Toy Story movies on DVD let alone Blu-Ray this is something I might consider, if it isn't too steep that is

That is such an amazing box... sadly I already have the other two. So its just gonna be a double disk ts3 for me!

[mattboywonder]

I did the amazing "Keys to the Kingdom" backstage tour at the Magic Kingdom last week and in the ultilidors were signs up for all the cast members to collect their FREE copy of Toy Story 3 on DVD.  It was such a huge hit, they are giving the DVD away as a thank you to all cast members

[never2old]

Congrats to Toy Story 3 on its FIVE Oscar nominations!!! Include Best Picture  /  =D>  /