Disney•Pixar’s “Up” Premieres Saturday, May 16 with Most Uplifting Red-Carpet Ever! Hollywood Boulevard to Take Flight with Thousands of Colorful Balloons

WHAT: Hollywood Boulevard will be bursting with thousands of colorful balloons for the world premiere of “Up,” Disney•Pixar’s first full-length feature being released in Disney Digital 3-D™. The hilarious journey is filled with comedy, adventure, heartfelt emotion and stunning visuals that will sweep audiences to a compelling lost world.

WHO: FILMMAKERS: Pete Docter (director/screenplay), Jonas Rivera (producer), Bob Peterson (co-director/screenplay/voice of Dug), John Lasseter (executive producer), Andrew Stanton (executive producer), Michael Giacchino (composer)

CAST: Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, Danny Mann, David Kaye, Jess Harnell, Mickie McGowan

SPECIAL GUESTS: Gary Sinise, Gilles Marini, Melissa Joan Hart, Mimi Rogers

WHEN: Saturday, May 16, 2009
               Press Check-in: 1:00 p.m.
               Red Carpet: 1:30 p.m.
               Film screening: 3:00 p.m.

WHERE: El Capitan Theatre
                6838 Hollywood Blvd.

Hollywood, CA ABOUT THE MOVIE: From Disney•Pixar comes “Up,” a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. From the Academy Award®-nominated director Pete Docter (“Monsters, Inc.”), Disney•Pixar’s “Up” invites you on a hilarious journey into a lost world, with the least likely duo on Earth. UP will be presented in Disney Digital 3-D in select theaters.