SUBMITTED BY Neville Longbottom

March 6, 2003 — Theater owners got to have a first peek at the latest Disney/Pixar callabo at ShoWest yesterday and they loved it, saying that they believe it will be as big as the four previous Disney/Pixar films."It's a great film, phenomenal," said Millard Ochs, president of Warner Bros. International Theatres, which has theaters in eight countries. "It's a solid winner."

"It was excellent," chimed in Dan Harkins, CEO of Harkins Theatres, the biggest theater chain in the Southwest. "It was really well done. It tugs at the heartstrings. It's going to do well at the box office. It's going to be great summer fare. The exhibitors should be exuberant about it."

"Nemo has been seven years in the making in concept, four years in serious production," he says. "There are a lot of rewrites, a lot of bad starts. We're the harshest critics we know, and we're always willing to change things at the 11th hour if a better idea comes along."

Thanks to Animated Movies!