Up is a
American computer-animated comedy-
adventure film produced by
Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by
Walt Disney Pictures. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and is the first animated film to open the
2009 Cannes Film Festival.
The film was released in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2009.
Up is director
Pete Docter's second feature-length film after
Monsters, Inc., and features the voices of
Edward Asner,
Christopher Plummer,
Bob Peterson, and
Jordan Nagai. It is Pixar's tenth feature film and the studio's first to be presented in
Disney Digital 3-D,
and is accompanied in theaters by the short film
Partly Cloudy.
The film was also shown in
Dolby 3D in selected theaters.