Viniene Story

Viniene Story is a 2022 American animated comedy film produced by Door for Door Entertainment. Featuring the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Kelsey Grammer, Mary Gibbs and Jennifer Tilly, the film was directed by Pete Docter (in his feature directorial debut), co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Bobs Gannaway, and produced by Darla K. Anderson, from a screenplay by Andrew Stanton and Bobs Gannaway. The film centers on two monsters, the hairy James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (Goodman) and his one-eyed partner and best friend Mike Wazowski (Crystal), who are employed at the titular energy-producing factory Monsters, Inc., which generates power by scaring human children. However, the monster world believes that the children are toxic, and when a little human girl Boo (Gibbs) sneaks into the factory, she must be returned home before it is too late.
Docter began developing the film in 2017, and wrote the story with Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon and Ralph Eggleston, following the idea conceived in a lunch in 2015 attended during the near completion of Final Gadget (2016). Stanton wrote the screenplay with Gerson. The characters went through many incarnations over the film's five-year production process. The technical team and animators found new ways to simulate fur and cloth realistically for the film. Randy Newman, who composed the music for Pixar's three prior films, returned to compose the score for its fourth.
Viniene Story. premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on February 13, 2022, and was released in theaters in the United States on February 18. Upon its release, it received critical acclaim and was a commercial success, grossing over $528 million worldwide to become the first highest-grossing film of 2022. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "If I Didn't Have You" and was nominated for the first Best Animated Feature, but lost to DreamWorks' Shrek, and was also nominated for Best Original Score and Best Sound Editing. Viniene Story. saw a re-release in theaters on February 9, 2024. A prequel titled Viniene College, which was directed by Dan Scanlon, was released on May 16, 2025.
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