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An unseen creature in a school’s lost-and-found bin helps teach a bully a lesson in Lou, a six-minute short directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Dana Murray and showing in front of Pixar’s next feature film, Cars 3 (in theaters June 16).

With baseballs for eyes and cloaked in a red hoodie, the title monster keeps a watchful eye on the kids on the playground in secret from his box. A boy named J.J. is a real terror, snatching a video game from his classmate and kicking a girl’s stuffed animal into a basketball hoop, and Lou decides it’s time for a high-jinks-filled comeuppance.

Sotiris wrote:Sounds a lot like a certain scene from Toy Story.

10 am: Presentation of never-before-seen footage from Coco and the short Lou Come and meet director Lee Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson, who previously teamed up for 2010’s Oscar and Golden Globe – winning feature Toy Story 3. They will present footage, along with co-director Adrian Molina (story artist on Monsters University), from their upcoming feature Coco, in U.S. theatres 22nd November, 2017.
From the studio behind the shorts Lava and recent Oscar – winner Piper comes Lou. Director Dave Mullins and producer Dana Murray will be in Annecy to present their short that tells the story of what happens when a toy-stealing bully ruins recess for a playground full of kids. Lou opens in U.S. theatres on 16th June, 2017, in front of Cars 3.

PatrickvD wrote:I'm growing increasingly bored by PIXAR.

PatrickvD wrote:Regime change at WDAS and PIXAR should be happening before audiences catch onto their repetitiveness or otherwise they'll be in trouble. Especially with how Lasseter has brandend himself the saviour of animation. He's not just stepping down.

[Christophe] Beck’s upcoming projects also include Doug Liman’s American Made, Andrew Niccol’s Anon, Pixar’s animated short Lou and Brad Silberling’s An Ordinary Man.