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August 13 -- Move over Buzz and Woody — a new computer-animated duo is heading for the big screen.

Say hello to James P. Sullivan and Mike Wzowski! Well, OK, maybe those names aren't as endearing as the Toy Story favorites, but the credentials behind a fourth Pixar-Disney film aren't too shabby either.

Low-key John Goodman and professional kvetcher Billy Crystal will voice the main characters in Monsters, Inc. as, respectively, "scare factory" expert Sullivan and his opinionated best friend, Mike Wzowski, according to Variety.

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Pete Docter, who received an Oscar nomination for co-creating the story for Toy Story, will direct and The Simpsons' David Silverman will co-direct the project, which is set for a November 2001 release date. The previous Pixar-Disney collaborations, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and A Bug's Life, were directed or co-directed by John Lasseter.

Other talents lending their voices are James Coburn, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Tilly, Bonnie Hunt, and newcomer Mary Gibbs.