Baby Dory Introduced In New Finding Dory Clip

Following its record-breaking opening weekend, Disney/Pixar has released a new clip from Finding [...]

Following its record-breaking opening weekend, Disney/Pixar has released a new clip from Finding Dory, the Finding Nemo sequel from filmmaker Andrew Stanton.

The clip introduces "Baby Dory," one of the breakout visuals from this weekend's movie, as she's trying to learn how to play with other kids from her parents.

Disney-Pixar's Finding Dory reunites everyone's favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Directed by Andrew Stanton and produced by Lindsey Collins, the film features the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton.

The film is in theaters this weekend, and is expected to earn $140 million from Friday to Sunday -- the largest opening-weekend haul ever for an animated film.

Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton, who returns for the sequel, is likely breathing a sigh of relief at these numbers; his last job as a director was John Carter, which lost Disney around $200 million in spite of building a pretty solid following among audiences who saw it.

Currently, Disney holds three of the year's top five spots at the domestic box office with Civil War, Zootopia, and The Jungle Book. They've also got a stake in Fox's Deadpool, since that's a Marvel property. If Finding Dory ousts Batman V Superman from the top spot before something else creeps in, Disney could potentially have a financial stake in all five of the year's top films.

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