This summer, Pixar adds to the fun with WALL•E, an original story filled with heart and humor from Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo). Set in the future, in a galaxy not so far away, the film follows a determined robot named WALL•E. After hundreds of lonely years, WALL•E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. WALL•E chases Eve across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the screen.
Walt Disney Animation Studios enriches Thanksgiving 2008 with the release of Bolt, an action-filled comedy that follows the adventures of a popular TV show dog (voiced by John Travolta) who thinks he really is an action hero, but discovers that life in the real world is radically different from his sheltered Hollywood soundstage. Armed only with delusions of his superhero powers and the help of two unlikely traveling companions — a jaded, abandoned house cat and a TV-obsessed hamster in a plastic ball — Bolt discovers he doesn't need superhero powers to be a hero.
Another animated feature currently on the drawing boards at Disney is a hand-drawn musical fairy tale, The Princess and the Frog, from veteran Disney directors John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin). The film will feature songs by Randy Newman and is scheduled for release in 2009.
Disney's 2008 live-action lineup also spotlights a trio of terrific family comedies. College Road Trip stars Raven-Symoné as a young woman whose enthusiasm for a "girls only" road trip to choose a college gets dashed when her over protective dad (Martin Lawrence) decides to tag along. In South of the Border, a live-action comedy with CG visual effects, Drew Barrymore voices a pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua who gets lost in Mexico and has to enlist a motley crew of streetwise animals to find her way back home. Director Adam Shankman helms Bedtime Stories, a comedy about a charming, self-absorbed playboy (Adam Sandler) whose life changes when the elaborate bedtime stories he tells his three nephews magically start to come true.
Walt Disney Animation Studios' Bolt arrives in theaters on November 26, 2008.
