The first quarter of 2011 saw the box office success of Toy Story 3.
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Disney set a box office record with Toy Story 3, which became the highest grossing animated movie ever.
The fund and a partner also bought a Manhattan office building known as the Toy Building and is converting it into a condominium.
For each of the two subsequent years, the expanded field included at least two of the year's 10 top-grossing films, including each year's box-office champion: "Toy Story 3" from 2010 and "Avatar" from 2009.
Feeney keeps a toy model of the Terminator in his office, along with hundreds of other familiar 10-inch plastic characters.
Within the clubby world of toy manufacturers, which stretches from the office blocks of east Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong to the factories over the border, Smart Union was seen as one of the winners, a trusted manufacturer with none of the quality problems that came to terrify the buyers of Chinese products.
The first Cars movie earned less overseas than it did in the U.S. By contrast he more recent Toy Story 3 earned 60% of its box office revenue overseas.
Despite the slight improvement driven Toy Story 3's robust debut, box office figures are running at about a 4% slower pace in the second quarter than a year ago.
If past animated films are any indication Dorothy of Oz has the potential to generate toy and merchandise revenues many multiples larger than its box office sales.
Unfortunately, with Toy Story 3 still doing so well at the box office, theater owners are likely to want to keep that film on their 3-D screens.
Wahlberg topped both the UK and US box office this summer in Ted, Seth MacFarlane's adult comedy about a toy bear who comes to life.
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