
The returning cast is joined by Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, John Turturro, Eddie Izzard, and Thomas Kretschmann, who voice the new characters introduced in this film. Paul Newman, who voiced Doc Hudson in the previous film, died in September 2008, so his character was written out of the film, while George Carlin, who previously voiced Fillmore, died during the same year, so his role was passed to Lloyd Sherr. In the film's ensemble voice cast, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Guido Quaroni, Bonnie Hunt, and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles from the first film. In the film, race car Lightning McQueen and tow truck Mater head to Japan and Europe to compete in the World Grand Prix, but Mater accidentally becomes sidetracked with international espionage. This was the final Pixar film animated with their old system, Marionette. It is a sequel to 2006's Cars and the second film in the Cars franchise. See alsoĬars 2 is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. These include the brand, franchise, and genre lists, which were put under an "Indices" section. On March 31, 2020, though, certain features that were locked behind the paywall were freed. Several features previously provided for free, such as box-office data for franchises, genres, actors, filmmakers, distributors, budgets, and inflation-adjusted figures, were moved to IMDbPro, the subscription service of IMDb. The redesign was heavily criticized for being difficult to navigate and moving much of its content behind a paywall. On October 23, 2019, Box Office Mojo unveiled a dramatic redesign resembling IMDb, and was rebranded as "Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro". On October 10, 2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDb's box office page, before returning the following day. In July 2008, the company was purchased by through its subsidiary, IMDb and the Premier Pass features and content later became free.

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In 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury, and grew the site to nearly two million readers. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts going back to 1982 and grosses for older films and the international section expanded to cover the weekly box office of 50 countries, international release schedules as well as box office results from up to 107 countries. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis and in 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Contentsīrandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.
