Disney/Pixar prepared a special trailer for Monsters Inc. to show before Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale (2001). Mike and Sulley play a game of charades in their apartment, with Sulley acting out "Harry Potter." Mike has difficulty solving the puzzle, some of his guesses being Ispettore Callaghan: il caso Scorpio è tuo! (1971), "Harry Flowerpot", "Harry Palmer" (a James Bond-esque spy played by Michael Caine in a series of films beginning with Ipcress (1965)) and "When Hairy Met Sulley," (a reference to Billy Crystal's starring role in Harry, ti presento Sally... (1989)). Eventually Sulley puts on round spectacles, sticks a paper lightning bolt to his forehead and sits on a broom with an owl on his arm, to which Mike ecstatically guesses Tutti insieme appassionatamente (1965). Sulley gives up and walks off-screen as Mike finally guesses "Harry Potter" and the cut away to title cards noting that "Monsters Inc." is "Now showing at a theater near you. Really near you. Like, maybe, right next door." At the end of the trailer, it is Mike's turn to act out a part, with a very bored looking Sulley guessing it is Guerre stellari (1977) within seconds, much to Mike's dismay. Coincidentally, Disney would acquire Lucasfilm (the production company behind the Star Wars franchise, among others) for $4.5 billion in 2012, a year before the release of prequel Monsters University (2013).

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