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the animated disney movie features the voices of billy crystal and john goodman. million in ticket sales. and "world war z," the brad pitt zombie movie, was second with $66 million. the super man movie, "man of steal" movie was third at $41 million. anne-marie? >> erica ferrari in new york. thank you, erica. >>> in sports now, we begin with interleague baseball and a texas three-game sweep of st. louis. the game at busch stadium was delayed nearly three hours because of rain. the rangers' ian kinsler had two hits including this single that drove in the tie-breaking run. in the seventh inning. texas beat the cards, 2-1. >>> and it was a wild one in anaheim. the pirates were trailing the angels, 6-3, but they scored three runs in the ninth and added four more in the tenth to beat the angels, 10-9. it was pittsburgh's first interleague sweep on the road. >>> and in the american league seattle and the oakland athletics were tied at 3-3 in the tenth. then mariners' pinch hitter kendrys morales swung at the first pitch he saw and hit a three-run walk-off home run. the m

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part of the storyline isn't john goodman is a north colina tor. >> i love housef cards.getting at liberals and conservates. so i think that the more that w have sire humor, the better it is. dennis: they are already bashing republicans like crazy. >> you have that problem with democrats and republicans both at this point in time. i was at an event last night, a comedian made joke. a democrat is ike the happy terviewers that says, i'm going to take u to disney world. something comes up. and he goes by himself and you're sitting there at home. so the satire is definitely right for the kitchen right now. i think that everyone needs a little bit of a breath of fresh air. >> i think it is a fascinating house of cards. it is a game changer for hollywood. it would be interesting to see how they are accepted into the hollywood mainstream community. >> when you say things that sound somuch more intelligent than wheamericans say something. i just want to point that out. last one. did you ever think you would hear of someone getting fined for washing the car? welcome if you have an

gary trudeau was on the program to talk about a pilot episode for amazon starring john goodman and billy. he said he was a tad reluctant to take the plunge. >> it wasn't something that appeal to me enormously and i thought about it. given the capability amazon has for capturing nuanced data, the process gives them more information about whether or not they should be making the show. it is transparent, democratic, rational, not just people with gut feelings and executive towers in l.a. >> well, the viewers have spoken. amazon picked up his alpha house along with four video series. maybe his appearance here had something to do with it. it took a while but katie couric confirmed a story i told you about that she was exploring the idea of launching a daytime program with matt lauer and considered returning to "the today show" for a time to team up with her old pal. the question of a daytime partnership came up on her show while she was chatting with howard stern. >> now, is it true -- >> wait, a second. >> i have one question. >> okay. what? >> it is true when you were putting this show tog

you are new sith come -- don't know what you call it -- >> "alpha house" starring john goodman. >> it it is you and gary trudeau who have long been friends. fascinating to me. the real life model, of course, is -- dick durbin house on the hill. >> that's right. gary trudeau is the creator of it. clang it to four republicans living on the hill. the pilot did well enough on amazon -- this is online tv -- that they've ordered ten episodes that we're going to shoot this year and they'll be available on amazon in kind of a netflix type model in november. and it is just -- it's so fun. i have to tell you to work on. we're going to introduce a couple of democratic senators in to the mix. women senators. and it's a comedy but we're trying to make it as authentic about washington as we can. and we're on the cutting edge of online tv which is coming very fast. >> it's really it's interesting. it must be so much fun. thank youcongratulations on the book and the tv series, jonathan, great to see you. >> thank you. >>> good news out of britain, britain's prince phillip left london's hospital and i

billy crystal and john goodman are so great together.ack to college days, we meet them, how they became friends and how their relationship we know them as in monsters incorporated. the interesting thing is how do these actors voice these scenes? are they together in the same rooms or separate in separate booths. check this out with billy crystal. >> the first movie, i came to the first day and john recorded his lines. so i was reacting to his recorded lines. i stopped it. i said i can't -- i can't do it because he's already done it, so i'm locked into reacting off him. i'm just going to react to one take that he did. can't we work together? he'll be a great improviseer. i know it. they never did it before, and we did it on the first movie: >> any r-rated movie or classic film, what would be funny to take the reverse treatment to take that r-rated movie and turn it into a g-rated film? >> the godfather. >>steve: billy chris ter doing the monsters university voice? it doesn't live up to monsters incorporated but it is a step in the right d

. >>> men michaela pereira sits down with this man, john goodman. in "monsteres university." taking pictures of himself as a monster. (girl) what does that say? (guy) dive shop. (girl) diving lessons. (guy) we should totally do that. (girl ) yeah, right. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy) you could eat a bug. let's do that. (guy) you know you're eating a bug. (girl) because of the legs. (guy vo) we got a subaru to take us new places. (girl) yeah, it's a hot spring. (guy) we should do that. (guy vo) it did. (man) how's that feel? (guy) fine. (girl) we shouldn't have done that. (guy) no. (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> where is he coming from? >> he's locked. >> welcome back to "new day." as startling accusations this morning against atlanta's police department. a new memo is out suggesting that officers pay raises are tied to writing traffic tickets and there are whistleblowers coming forward across the country saying they, too, are being pressured to meet quotas. victor b

you get to work with one of your good friends, sully, john goodman. >> we worked together, too. you're in separate studios or you don't work together at all. but on the first one, i came in. and he had done his part. so, i said, i can't improvise anything because his stuff is already done. can't we call him? and see if he'll come in. and he did. and it makes the relationship very true. it's really funny that way. and our emotional scenes, which this movie has. >> very emotional. i had all my kids over last night, with a couple of friends there. they were completely mesmerized. i was, as well. this movie has something for everybody. >> it's because they're 17. they're young kids in this movie. and the moral of this movie is sometimes your dreams don't work out. and how do you get past that? and how do you move at that point in your life when you start to make decisions, the ones that will impact the rest of your lives. the people at pixar are just geniuses. always working the story. and always have something for everybody. there were no zombies. >> you're telling me, i was surpri

know the monsters franchise recognize many popular characters from the teal fur ball mammoth, john goodmantal. here is a clip. >> james p. sullivan. >> mike wyzowski. listen it was quite delightful meeting you and whatever that is. if you don't mind i have to study my scaring. >> you don't need to study scaring. you just do it. >> really? >> early reviews are very good. with pixar animation hard to miss. some of what the critics are saying. marshal finn of hollywood says monsters university is the most consistently funny movie of the year, animated or not. that's hollywoodandfind. and michael sullivan, it may be children's terror that powers the movie's fictional universe. but the energy lights it up. >> sound like a good one. i enjoyed the first one. >> that's it. >> announcer: more americans choose abc news to see the whole picture. >>> so they sold. >> this morning on "world news now" -- hoping for a rebnd. >> people got upon i cany. >>> so they sold. >> this morning on "world news now" -- hoping for a rebound. the market opens down today after the worst day of the year on wall street.

. >> amazon also getting into original content producing this show with john goodman and cameos fromu're an actor in hollywood, it may not be what you think of first. >> look, i think we saw that with "arrested development." episode 13, by the way, the funniest. >> did you watch them all? >> episode 13. i'm in episode 13, for heaven's sake! >> making old jokes and i'll give you used stuff. >> when we come back, will worries about fed tapering put up next year's rally for financials or should you go along for the ride? as we go to break, let's take a look at early movers. the dow up 36 on this tuesday morning. back in a minute. >>> are you thinking of playing golf with your spouse? why not show up in style with these his and hers cnbc polo shirts signed by the entire "squawk on the street" gang. well, it can be yours if you can guess friday's non-farm jobs number. tweet your guess to @squawkstreet and don't forget the #nailthenumber. you have to be 18 years to enter, sorry, kid. go to sots.cnbc.com. you have until 8:29 a.m. eastern friday morning. good luck. [ male announcer ] it's in