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Animated movies to go 3-D, Disney says

The Pixar animation studio plans to release all future movies in 3-D format beginning in May 2009, the Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday.

The Pixar animation studio plans to release all future movies in 3-D format beginning in May 2009, the Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday.

This photo supplied by Disney and Pixar Animation Studios shows two characters from Cars. ((Disney Enterprises and Pixar Animation Studio/Associated Press))

Most animated films from Walt Disney Animation will alsohave 3-D versions, chief creative officer John Lasseter said at a presentation in New York.

"I love 3-D. I made a 3-D computer-animated short in 1989 called Nickname, and in fact my wedding pictures with my beautiful wife Nancy were made in 3-D," he said.

DreamWorks Animation announced last summer it would make all its computer-animated titles 3-D.

Disney is following suit, with plans for both conventional and 3-D releases for 10 upcoming movies.

There could be up to 2,000 3-D cinemas across the U.S. by 2009.

Pixar's upcoming releases include:

  • Toy Story 3, with Andynow college age and ready to leave home, in June 2010.
  • A re-release of the original Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3-D.
  • Newt, a love story involving the lasttwo remainingblue-footed newts, in summer 2011.
  • The Bear and the Bowat Christmas 2011.
  • Cars 2 in summer 2012.

Before going 3-D,Pixar will release Wall-E, the story of a lonely robot cleaning up an Earth abandoned by humans, who falls in love witha visitingrobot.

Walt Disney Animation Studios, a separate arm of the studio, will continuein traditional hand-drawn format with The Princess and the Frog this summer.

Disneyplans both 3-D and traditional releases for the upcoming films:

  • Bolt, with John Travolta as the voice of a dog who believes he has super powers.
  • Rapunzel, set for releaseat Christmas 2010.
  • King of the Elves, set for release at Christmas 2012.