This Hollywood Reporter forecast is a great excuse to revisit Pixar’s wonderful summer movie Up as the film takes to the sky to fly overseas:

“Up” soon should be moving up in the world.

Pixar’s latest film release already has overperformed in the U.S. and Canada, proving wrong predictions its star-free voice cast and adult-oriented tone would hamper appeal among family moviegoers. As it turned out, Ed Asner and newcomer Jordan Nagai were fine for the lead roles as “Up” registered upward of $288 million domestically.

In fact, “Up” stands as the second-highest-grossing domestic release by Disney and Pixar after 2003′s “Finding Nemo,” which brought in $340 million.

Now, the film about a globe-trotting house hoisted by balloons finally is finding momentum in a growing number of foreign territories. So the question looms: Will the international campaign for “Up” also top other Pixar pics from the past six years, including 2004′s “The Incredibles,” 2006′s “Cars,” 2007′s “Ratatouille”?

And just for good measure, let’s just hit this point one more time:

Rhapsodic reviews after the pic’s world premiere at Cannes didn’t hurt either.

“It was the first-ever 3D film there,” Zoradi noted in a phone interview from Australia, where he’s tubthumping for exhibitors a Disney slate featuring the Sept. 3 bow of “Up.”

“The movie started with a great story and delivered on emotion and heart,” he said. “The filmmakers came through with a movie that works on those levels, and therefore it can travel around the world.”

“The movie started with a great story.”

Ahhhh.
So very, very nice to see those words in print.
But we’ve come to expect that from Pixar.