The first teaser trailer for Disney*Pixar’s prequel to the 2001 hit Monsters Inc., titled Monsters University, has been released online.

In the movie, Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) are back in college, and they may not have started as the best of friends. The teaser shows off one of the college pranks Sully pulled on Mike…surely the first of many we’ll see between the two.

Be sure to click on over to the other side now to see the first teaser trailer for Monsters University!

While at a 20th anniversary screening of his 1991 comedy western, City Slickers, Billy Crystal talked about the upcoming follow-up, Monsters, Inc. 2, which is in fact a prequel.

The movie, which is more officially titled Monsters University, follows future best buddies Mike Wazowski (Crystal) and James Sullivan (John Goodman) when they were back in college working their way towards jobs at Monsters, Incorporated. At the time, the two aren’t friends but more like rivals before eventually forming the relationship we saw in the original.

The Walt Disney D23 Expo is upon us once again, and with it comes some exciting looks at the company’s upcoming movie slate.

The Expo will take place from August 19 to August 21 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and it totes an impressive lineup that will include Marvel’s The Avengers, The Muppets, John Carter, Disney/Pixar’s Brave, Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, Oz: The Great and Powerful, and plenty more.

Continue reading for a rundown of what to expect, who’s appearing, and how those of you in the area can attend.

As most of you are well-aware, Pixar Animation has been on something on a sequel kick lately with the release of Toy Story 3, Cars 2 set to hit this summer, and the planned sequel to their 2001 hit Monsters Inc., which we now know will come next summer in 2012.

The Walt Disney Company, while at the CinemaCon convention currently taking place in Las Vegas, confirmed the release year as well as something that had been rumored since the beginning of January: that Monsters Inc. 2 would actually be a prequel (Read: Rumor For Your Thoughts: Will “˜Monsters Inc. 2″² Be A Prequel?).