Cars (film)

This article is about the first film. For the entire series, see Cars (franchise).

Cars
Theatrical poster
Directed by	John Lasseter
Produced by	Darla K. Anderson
Screenplay by	Dan Fogelman John Lasseter Joe Ranft Kiel Murray Phil Lorin Jorgen Klubien
Story by	John Lasseter Joe Ranft Jorgen Klubien Brenda Chapman
Starring	Owen Wilson Daniel Lawrence Whitney Paul Newman Bonnie Hunt Tony Shalhoub John Ratzenberger George Carlin Jenifer Lewis Cheech Marin Richard Petty Michael Keaton
Music by	Randy Newman
Cinematography	Jeremy Lasky Jean Claude Kalache
Editing by	Ken Schretzmann
Studio	Pixar
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	June 9, 2006
Running time	117 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$120 million[1]
Box office	$461,983,149[1]

Cars is a 2006 American animated family film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter. It is the seventh Disney·Pixar feature film, and Pixar's final, independently-produced motion picture before its purchase by Disney. Set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles, it features voices by Owen Wilson, Paul Newman (in his final non-documentary feature), Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, Jenifer Lewis, Tony Shalhoub, John Ratzenberger, George Carlin,Larry the Cable Guy and Michael Keaton as well as voice cameos by several celebrities including Jeremy Piven, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Jr.,Bob Costas, Darrell Waltrip, Jay Leno, Michael Schumacher, Tom and Ray Magliozzi from NPR's Car Talk, and Mario Andretti. The film is also the second Pixar film—after A Bug's Life—to have an entirely non-human cast.

Cars premiered on May 26, 2006 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, and was released on June 9, 2006, to generally favorable reviews. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. It was released on DVD November 7, 2006 and on Blu-ray Disc in late 2007. Related merchandise, including scale models of several of the cars, broke records for retail sales of merchandise based on a Disney·Pixar film, with an estimated $5 billion in sales.^[2]

A sequel, Cars 2, was released on June 24, 2011.^[3