... of Pixar

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060124/ap_en_mo/disney_pixar

Discuss.

That's a lot of money.

You knew it was gonna happen. How could Disney possibly let go of a company that is making like 200-350 million DOMESTIC per film. Pixar + Disney = The Incredibles and Toy Story, so I'm all for the move.

$631,436,092
$864,625,978
$525,366,597
$485,015,179
$363,398,565
$361,958,736

Worldwide gross for all 6 of their films (Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc, A Bugs Life)

Yea, I saw this a couple days ago. Apparently now Steve Jobs is the largest Disney shareholder though...

And then Disney promptly fired all of the CG animator because they decided they were moving away from ' the second wave of traditional animation' and resorting to use only flip book animation and stick figures.



smart for Disney only if they dont mess with the Pixar team but leech money out of them, but I wouldn't put it past them to completely re-work pixar and kill it.

we can only hope this means more good movies from Disney/Pixar not our first in a line of bad movies from Pixar.

Holy crap, Steve Jobs just got a **** load richer.

Disney is going to enjoy the purchase in teh long run. They need Pixar.



In other words, if Pixar was independent in distribution and had other financers, they could leave Disney to fend for themselves.

There was another article that said Steve Jobs owns a wopping 6% of Disney's stock. Former chairman Micheal Eisner owned around 1%.

This isn't really unexpected. Jobs is quoted as having said when Eisner at Disney, that as long as he stayed as head of Disney, Pixar would sign no contract renewal with Disney.

Eisner is gone now, and thus Jobs and Pixar are coming back.

Lots of drama between them - between Jobs and Lasseter wanting to do Toy Story 3 (having the story pretty much ready) but being refused cause it wouldn't be considered part of their contract. Then Eisner testifying in court about how a product of Apple was leading piracy use - something Jobs took as a direct attack, Eisner telling board members that he expected Finding Nemo to flop and had no confidence in it, etc.

Hmm... Rather interesting, this is. Steve Jobs is now effectively at the helm of Disney, rather than Pixar, and Pixar is now a part of Disney. I doubt that this would permit Pixar to be "changed" or "dumbed" or anything bad; after all, Jobs is now in control, moreso than anyone else at Disney ever has been.

I now forsee a race between Steve Jobs and Google to try to control the media and culture of the future. :p

Well, if Google buys out AOL/TimeWarner as they've been keen on doing, then it should indeed get quite interesting.

Damn, why didn't I buy some Pixar stock?

(Answer: Because it's probably horribly overpriced.)

Wow. That's a huge chunk of money.

yeah, long as the quality of the films isn't affected, this should be a good thing.

i would have rathered pixar remain independant. once their contract was up they could have branched out from doing family oriented movies into other areas.

*shrug*

we'll see what happens.

Without Pixar, does Disney make any good animated movies anymore?

They just better not mess with Pixar's success. I have loved all of their movies, even A Bug's Life.

As far as I know, nope. They really haven't made a good film since the mid 90s.

Well Tarzan was pretty good (1998?), but yeah, other than that, not much good material in the animation department outside of Pixar.

lilo and stitch. (at least before they made it a cash cow)

Lilo and Stitch isn't really...well..