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Steve Jobs to Sell Pixar and Join Disney Board?

Posted by Zonk on from the wherefor-will-apple-go? dept.

mikeisme77 writes "According to the Washington Post, Pixar Studios is in discussions with Disney for a possible merger/buy out. Disney would own Pixar in exchange for $6.7 billion worth of stock in the Walt Disney Corp. Speculation has also arisen that such a deal may lead to Steve Jobs earning a position on Disney's board of directors. He would likely become Disney's largest individual share holder. Further speculation sees Jobs using his new found power to leverage Disney into releasing more content to the iTunes media service." Details also available from the Time Magazine site. We touched on this issue near the end of last year as well.

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  1. Re:You can't buy talent by FooAtWFU · · Score: 2, Informative

    Didn't Pixar leave Disney not that long ago? Hmm. "If you can't keep their business, buy them out", is it?

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  2. Steve Jobs != Pixar by vasqzr · · Score: 2, Informative


    Jobs came up with the original plan to start Pixar, and the money to do it, but he has basically no creative control there. It's run by other people.

    1. Re:Steve Jobs != Pixar by MetaPhyzx · · Score: 2, Informative

      Er, you mean came up with the money to BUY Pixar. Pixar was a Lucasfilm joint before that... Jobs isn't as hands on there as he is with Apple, but they do share a similar office culture.

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  3. Re:You can't buy talent by nizo · · Score: 2, Informative
    Disney already owns the rights to pretty much all of Pixar's works:

    Disney noted in its statement that it owns rights to all the Pixar movies, as well as two more animated features yet to be delivered -- "The Incredibles" due this year and "Cars", expected in 2005.

    Disney will distribute those two films with Pixar getting its share of the profits. In addition, Disney probably will be able to make the sequels to all the Pixar films made under the current agreement, paying Pixar only limited royalties.

    (Taken from here)


    Now if Pixar (as it is today) is in charge of later remakes they will actually be good; I shudder to think how Disney would do making sequals to The Incredibles or even Finding Nemo. This would be a good thing as long as Disney doesn't destroy Pixar.

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  4. Re:Jobs To Take Eisner Job? by iroll · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, because Eisner was fired last year. Wiki

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  5. Re:Disney + Pixar = Bad combination by Hitokiri · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pixar is so much more than just John Lasseter.

    The last film Lasseter wrote and directed was Toy Story 2.

    Brad Bird wrote and directed The Incredibles
    Andrew Staton wrote and directed Finding Nemo
    Peter Docter directed and Andrew Staton wrote Monsters Inc.

    While Lasseter served as Executive Producer on these films that role is mainly production management and not creative. I'm not saying Lasseter isn't talented, he is. Its just that Pixar's success is the union of great management, R&D and arists.