Lee Unkrich, director of TOY STORY 3, announced via video today that the TOY STORY/TOY STORY 2 3-D double feature release will be in theaters for longer than its originally planned two-week run. Since hitting theaters on Oct. 2, the special release has already earned $22.8 million.
Unkrich also announced some new voice actors for the upcoming third installment. Kristen Schaal from "The Flight of the Conchords" will voice a new character and Blake Clark will be doing the voicing for Slinky, taking over for his friend Jim Varney, who died in 2000.
The pair join the existing voice cast of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, John Morris, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey, Jodi Benson, Ned Beatty, Michael Keaton, Timothy Dalton, Jeff Garlin, Bonnie Hunt and Whoopi Goldberg. TOY STORY 3 is scheduled to open in theaters on June 18, 2010.