Studio bosses at animation company Disney/Pixar made brave 10-year-old COLBY CURTIN's dying wish come true by staging a special screening of their hit new film Up at her home - seven hours before vascular cancer claimed her life.

A friend alerted Pixar bosses to Curtin's dream of seeing the film before she died and they shipped a copy of the movie to her home in Huntington Beach, California so the ailing girl could check it out with family and friends.

Colby had been keen to see Up, but her worsening condition meant she wasn't able to leave home to go to a cinema.

Her grateful mum, Lisa Curtin, tells the OC Register newspaper, "When I watched it (the film), I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie (but) I just know that word 'up' and all of the balloons... meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven."

In the film, which is tipped to become the second biggest animated movie ever - behind Finding Nemo, a widowed pensioner, a boy scout and a dog take off on a high-flying adventure in a balloon-filled house.