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Pixar Drops Disney To Find a New Studio Partner
da_anarchist writes "After much speculation, Pixar has announced that it will end its distribution agreement with Disney. This comes after much bitterness at Pixar over the terms of their current deal with Disney, where Disney took a sizable (and some would say unfair) portion of the $2.5 billion in revenue generated by Pixar's films. Pixar is best known as the studio behind the Toy Story series and the more recent movie Finding Nemo."
Roy is Walt's nephew. Walt didn't have any sons.
Nah, he'd just subcontract the inbetween work to cheaper studios in Korea and China. That's what most of the Japanese studios have been doing for the past 10 years or so. Just take a look at the credits for any recent theatrical Anime and you'll see a lot of non-Japanese names and studios listed in the credits.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
It sounds like Disney-insiders blame the CEO of Disney.
From the article:
Roy Disney and ally Stanley Gold, who both resigned from the Disney board late last year and called for Chief Executive and Chairman Michael Eisner to step down, placed the blame on Eisner.
"More than a year ago, we warned the Disney board that we believed Michael Eisner was mismanaging the Pixar partnership and expressed our concern that the relationship was in jeopardy," they said.
Actually, Atlantis was pretty good. Haven't seen Emperor's New Groove" because I hate David Spade. Haven't seen Dinosaur, but the previews looked like great animation.
I did bring my kids to see Treasure Planet and Lilo & Stitch. L&S was great because it was supposed to be a low budget summer release that would tide us over until Treasure Planet, yet ended up being a really well done movie, whereas Treasure Planet was a butchered classic that they tried to soupe up with expensive CG. It wasn't *bad*, it just wasn't particularly notable.
Lilo and Stitch has become a Disney classic, at least to us, and must have been a pretty good success seeing as how it got a spin off series and a lot more merchandising than Treasure Planet.
And you missed another flop, though - Brother Bear, not to mention some of the stupid live action films they've done (like "Country Bear").
I don't know what the hell they're thinking with all the sequels, though, it really is pathetic.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
No, you can't copyright facts like that. It would be as if James Cameron had to get permission from the studios to say 'from the director of Titanic', on any films he did thereafter.
Further than that, even. Simba was originally white, and has been referred to at least once by Disney employees as Kimba. Furthermore, one of the Disney animators apparently wore a home-made Kimba/Leo costume to a Disney party and one of the voice actors originally thought that he was being cast in a remake of the Jungle Emperor/Kimba television series. There's quite a bit of evidence that they were fully familiar with Jungle Emperor. There's a good article about this on KimbaWLion.com.
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I hate David Spade too, and yet to me, New Groove is one of the best things to come out of Disney in a looooooong time. Give it a shot, you might be surprised. It's not traditional Disney though; the characters don't randomly break into song, there's no romance, and way more slapstick humor. I dig it. :-)
The rest of the stuff they're putting out does seem pretty dumb though. Atlantis was OK. Treasure Planet blew.
Hi... I'm Larry... the shivering chipmunk... brrrrr!... I'm cold... I need a sweater...
Then they just need to say "from the makers of Toy Story(TM) and Finding Nemo(TM) *Toy Story and Finding Nemo are registered trademarks of the Walt Disney Corporation".
It's the title of a movie, you can't control how people refer to your products. George Lucas has a trademark on everything from Alderaan to wookie but he still can't sue Kevin Smith for having his characters talk about Star Wars.
All animated shows you see on television in the U.S. (Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, etc.) have been farmed out to S. Korea or other countries for years. Principle animation is done stateside and the rest is "fleshed" out.
Animation is a tough career to pursue.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
> Disney is in a position that IBM found itself in years ago, and Coca-Cola found itself in when Pepsi came on the market.
Back in 1903, you mean? That's when the Pepsi-Cola name was trademarked.
Or are you referring to their big "Nickel Nickel" radio ad campaign of 1940?