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Toy Story 3 Scrapped
Snap E Tom writes "The Independent Online is reporting that Toy Story 3 has been scrapped. This is a strong clue that the Pixar guys are firmly in control at Disney. The ground-breaking films were being milked into almost as many movies as The Sims has expansion packs. John Lasseter, Pixar's creative head, was strongly against the idea of third and forth movies, while the old Disney regime pushed forward with it. Now with Pixar and Steve Jobs on the board, Lasseter has taken the necessary steps to prevent the franchise from being diluted."
I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to The Incredibles. I think they left an excellent door open for that. I see it based around the family learning to function as a team.
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Pixar is one of, if not the, finest film studios around right now. I was really worried about Disney ruining everything that makes Pixar great, and I was also worried about the Jobs reality distortion field making things worse.
Instead of my fears of Disney corrupting Pixar it looks like Pixar is going to help Disney get back to where they used to be and that would be an excellent thing. I wonder what the minds at Pixar could do with the Muppet franchise.
My fingers are crossed.
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It's probably also why "Cars" was looking to be a piece of crap - since the movie was simply being done to fulfill a contractual obligation, Pixar would phoen it in, and Disney could choke on their contract. I wouldn't be surprised if "Cars" goes into turnaround now that there's a real reason to make it.
Intersting theory. Mine goes like this:
Cars was first scheduled for release last Fall, at the same time as Chicken Little. Disney, which holds all promotion rights, purposefully held off promoting Cars (which, to me, looks no worse than did The Incredibles, but that's just me), to force it into a poor or even showing against their in house CGI film. That way, when Disney lost Pixar they could assure their stock holders that Pixar was washed up anyway.
So, Pixar calls Disney and says, the film won't be ready for another eight months. Chicken Little bombs (who saw that one coming?), and Pixar still has a chance.
Anyway, just a thought.
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Why should kids watch crap anymore than adults? Letting kids watch crap is how we end up with stupid kids. If a movie has depth and meaning then it will help to shape the audience and kids are especially open to this shaping. If not then it will either have no effect or a negative effect. Movies like Robin Hood and the Sword and the Rose combined with my collection of fantasy and sci fi adventure books certainly helped shape my mindset and morals. I don't want children that have been shaped for nothing other than to be a good consumer and a pacifist.
Okay I have a grudge this week. The other day I was at McDonalds and a bunch (maybe two dozen) of junior high kids came in and literally were having a massive food fight and left without even dumping their trays in the trash. Obviously all brats that have been taught no values or respect for other people at all. Worse, some of their parents were there and let them do it.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Not just the DIVX discs, they also refused to release titles on DVD -- at least until the DIVX format went belly-up and they had no market. Disney was an early adopter of Macrovision on videotape, kept prices higher than other typical movies, and limited the quantities available on the market -- the infamous Disney Vault, where they only release a movie a shorttime every 7-to-10 years. Disney was also involved in designing the "disposable" DVD discs which degraded over a couple days after you open the plastic wrapping.
So, yes. Disney has been involved in DRM, if that's the right term, for many many years now.
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This type of acquisition is really quite normal. Do not think of this as Disney buying Pixar - it is more along the lines of Disney, the corporation, hiring the management of Pixar the hard way. Really, what kind of incentive package could Disney have offered that was better than this?