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Disney-Pixar film to feature robot named Wall-E
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-01-19 09:21

LOS ANGELES  - A robot named Wall-E stars in Disney-Pixar's June 2008 computer-animated movie, Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Robert Iger said in a letter to shareholders this week.

Disney-Pixar's next release, "Ratatouille," about a cuisine-loving rat living in a Paris restaurant, is scheduled to be released this summer.

"Wall-E" will be directed by Andrew Stanton, whose "Finding Nemo" was Pixar's highest-grossing film, taking in about $865 million at box offices worldwide.

Disney bought its longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios last year and installed Pixar's creative director John Lasseter over Pixar and Disney Feature Animation in an attempt to jump-start its lackluster animation program.