From cinemablend.com:

The nation’s economy may be in a recession, but it’s good times over at the Walt Disney Company. They’ve got more moneymaking franchises than they can shake a stick at. They’ve got more Pirates movies coming, Narnia is still in the picture, they’ve got Tim Burton cranking out another creepy kids movie in Alice in Wonderland, they’re squeezing Johnny Depp into a Tonto costume, and now they own a little company called Pixar… which they plan to milk for all its worth.

Because they’re so eager to scrape everything they can out of the Pixar piggybank, Disney has decided they need another Cars movie sooner rather than later. Variety says they’ve bumped the release of Cars 2 up a year. They now plan to release the continuing adventures of Lightning McQueen in the summer of 2011. But wait, there’s more.

Disney has even more plans to earn more of that sweet Cars cash. They’ll be deluging you with a series of animated short film starring the character of Mater, as soon as automotively possible. The shorts will show up on TV, and in front of Disney movies. I’ve long been in favor of showing short films in front of movies, especially Disney movies. If you saw the hilarious Goofy short that played in front of National Treasure 2 then you know how awesome those little pre-movie warm-ups can be. I’m sure the Cars skits will be enjoyable but… this is Disney. If you’re going to make shorts, how about giving us more with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Pixar’s movies are great and all, but your corporate mascots could use a little fresh air every now and then.

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