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Disney Buys Pixar
BlueDjinn writes to tell us that it appears a great deal of speculation over Disney's buyout of Pixar Animation Studios is in fact true. From the article: "[Pixar] is set to meet tomorrow to approve the company's $7bn (£3.9bn) takeover by Disney. The all-share deal will make Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, around $3.5bn and the single largest shareholder in Disney. Jobs created Pixar in 1986 when he paid $10m for the computer animations division of Lucasfilm, owned by Star Wars creator George Lucas."
...tells me that pixar is for sale in 10 years for 10m.
on a sidenote, what happens to renderman?
Yes, because being the owner of the world's largest collection of turtle necks is an expensive hobby.
Steve Jobs will begin designing rides at Disneyland. You know there will be an acid trip ride, something Alice and Wonderland style. I can't wait.
Luxo Jr? He'll survive. But they'll have to alter his image a little bit, so they can make a costume for someone to wear around Disneyworld.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Loaded. In his house is a giant walk in wardrobe with a long line of turtle-neck sweaters, you fight through it all and at the back is a snow filled landscape where iPods grow on trees.
You see Steve Wozniak talking to a CGI lion on the technical production of blue boxes. In the background is a giant Intel factory, where little orange men are packing new iMacs into crates marked Nigeria...
Task Mangler
~jeff
CGI is new tool. Some great movies will be made with it
Sure, I can see them now "Perl of the Orient" "Firewall Apache" and the classic "Slashdotted: As the Sun Went Down"
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Not really. I have five, and my collection is considered the second largest.
for particularly large values of 7.
"...yeah, but how does Walt Disney's cyrogenically frozen head feel about the merger?"
Initially, I suspect he'll be cold to the idea, but I think that will thaw after a while.
Vincent J. Murphy
Spandex Justice
Does this mean that Disney cartoons will only have one mouse?
;)
No, they'll still have many mice, but Mickey's red shorts will only have one button.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Better nail down the sofa, then!
And Jobs did it with one thing: Quality. And Marketing. Ok, two things.
and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
I don't want to fit in, I just don't want to stand out