This came from the AppleInsider.com site based on a CNBC inteview with Pixar Animation Studios boss Steve Jobs and Disney boss Robert Iger:
Iger recently saw Pixar’s next feature animated film titled “Cars,” and said it is one of the best films he’d ever seen. “I can’t wait for the rest of the world to see it,” he said. Disney and Pixar plan an exclusive preview of the film in Detroit before the SuperBowl … The movie is set to open in theaters this June.
I’ve heard it’s a focus screening, not a version of the final product. Still, talk about a hot ticket …
I also found this on Army Archerd’s blog from an interview with “Cars” star Paul Newman:
He’ll attend “at least two” of the premieres planned for the Disney-Pixar animated “Cars” directed by John Lasseter. The first bow is May 26 in Charlotte, N.C. Newman is the voice of “Doc Hudson,” a 1951 Hudson Hornet “with a mysterious past” as a former race car. He advises young hotshot hot rod, Lightning McQueen, voiced by Owen Wilson. Others who voice the four-wheeled feature include: Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin, George Carlin, Richard Petty, Michael Keaton, Tony Shalhoub, John Ratzenberger, Michael Wallis, Paul Dooley and Jennifer Lewis. I was told Newman contributed his expertise in the car racing field to the filmakers. He modestly told me he only gave ’em some “racing language they may not have been familiar with.” I was told he also generously gave input about race cars.