…week) 20) Monster House with $795,546, averaging $1,400 over 568 theaters ($70,577,979 total; 7th week) 23) The Ant Bully with $560,510, averaging $1,370 over 409 theaters ($26,505,664 total; 6th week)…

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 10) Barnyard with $2,715,092, averaging $1,083 over 2,506 theaters ($67,014,342 total; 6th week) 20) Cars with $478,322, averaging $1,000 over 478 theaters ($242,618,740 total; 14th…

…15th week) 89) Renaissance with $10,800, averaging $5,400 over 2 theaters ($10,800 total; 1st week) 96) A Scanner Darkly with $7,174, averaging $286 over 25 theaters ($5,469,745 total; 12th week)…

…with $200,202, averaging $680 over 294 theaters ($243,735,463 total; 17th week) 51) The Ant Bully with $41,393, averaging $530 over 78 theaters ($27,587,155 total; 10th week) 72) Renaissance with $14,568,…

…11th week) 64) Renaissance with $10,412, averaging $800 over 13 theaters ($47,213 total; 3rd week) 100) A Scanner Darkly with $860, averaging $86 over 10 theaters ($5,480,996 total; 14th week)…

…since 2002 that there could be five nominees in the category. The eligible films are: The Ant Bully (Warner Bros.), Arthur and the Invisibles (Weinstein/MGM), Barnyard (Paramount), Cars (Disney/Pixar), Curious…

…Fall Line will be run by Scott Novis, who headed production on the recent Cars video game. As Disney CEO Robert Iger stated last September, Disney can earn more money…

Route 66 News reveals the inspiration for the character Tow Mater from Cars: a rusty 1951 international boom truck. The vehicle was given star treatment at an old Marathon service…

Cartoon Brew hosts the advertisement for Pixar Under the Hood: The Making of Cars, presented by the San Francisco Society of Illustrators. Held in the Morgan Auditorium of San Francisco,…

…Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, noticing many consumers continue to enjoy the DVD extras that iTunes does not currently carry. To settle the dispute, Disney will…

Buena Vista Pictures has opened its yearly “For Your Consideration” site. This time around, the studio is marketing Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Prestige, Déjà Vu…

…second spot. Concurrently, on Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart, Meltdown debuted at #1 with approximately $10.3 million. In the meantime, Cars continued to have healthy sales on the DVD…

…highlights include: our DVD takes on all the big titles including Cars, Over The Hegde, Ice Age, Looney Tunes, the Disney Legacy and Treasures collections and A Scanner Darkly, plus…

Oscar Watch has collected a wide assortment of “For Your Consideration” advertisements, taken from Variety. Campaigning for Oscar gold through these ads are Arthur & the Invisibles, Cars, Curious George,…

…award are Cars, Happy Feet, and Monster House. In addition to the nomination in the animated category, Happy Feet also got a nod in the Best Original Song category for…

Barnyard: The Original Party Animals entered fourth place on the DVD First Alert sales chart last week, as seen through The Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, Cars continued a steady pace at…

…Officer John Lasseter, who was visiting Lowe’s Motor Speedway to research the racing culture, Keever’s “life-of-the-party” racing enthusiasm made him the inspiration for the comic sidekick Mater in Disney/Pixar’s Cars….

…having the year’s biggest box office draws: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which pulled in $1.06 billion, and Cars, which acquired $462 million. Both of those films went…

…Cars, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Monster House. Continuing a tradition since 1990, the Producers Guild of America will hand out its awards on January 20….

…will see the release of such Buena Vista flicks as Chicken Little, Cars, and both Pirates of the Caribbean films. Asia and Europe will also finally receive The Wild, with…

…include Randy Newman, who crafted both the song Our Town and a score for Disney/Pixar’s Cars, and Jewel, who co-wrote the tune Quest for Love for Arthur and the Invisibles….

…Ice Age: The Meltdown took the third spot, with $647 million worldwide. Cars arrived in fifth place, hauling $462 million, while Over the Hedge came in ninth with $334 million….

Fresh from accepting the Golden Globe for “Best Animated Film,” Cars director John Lasseter stopped by numerous award after-parties, including those held by The Weinstein Company, NBC/Universal Pictures/Focus Features, and…

…last October. The one million mark was exceeded during the holidays, when the company placed such popular films as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Cars at iTunes….

Reuters via Yahoo! News reveals the “Best Animated Movie” nominees for Nickelodeon’s 20th annual Kids’ Choice Awards. The competition includes Cars, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Over the…

With Yahoo! Entertainment, Randy Newman speaks about his seventeenth Academy Award nomination, provided for the tune Our Town from Cars. Furthermore, the composer joins Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter…

Upcoming Pixar notices Action-Figure.com, where photos of the Cars and Ratatouille toys from the 2007 Toy Fair are displayed. Likewise, the earlier site points to Cinematical, which contains a larger…

With three nominations, Monster House is the top animated title among the nominees for the 33rd annual Saturn Awards. The film will go against Cars, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Over…

…director George Miller explains to the Associated Press that he did not expect his film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, knowing the competition from Disney/Pixar’s Cars….

…at the making of Cars, explaining how their films evolve from their initial concept stage to final film, as well as showing film clips from the Pixar Vaults and talking…