Disney have bought Pixar..

Garp · 22 Jan 2006 at 12:41

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/ma...d=242&sSheet=/money/2006/01/22/ixcitytop.html

RandomTom · 22 Jan 2006 at 13:25

Ah no, pixar were a good studio with decent ideas, ah well - we'll have to say how disney change things!

:/.

Werewolf · 22 Jan 2006 at 13:34

Or you could look at it as Apple take over Disney - Steve Jobs is now the biggest shareholder in Disney, which could mean that Apple Itunes video service gets the rights to Dsiney's content that much easier

On the downside, we can probably expect Toy Story 43 in a couple of years, followed closely by Finding Nemo's glasses (AKA Finding Nemo 6).

benjo plz. · 22 Jan 2006 at 13:36

Didn't Apple own Pixar anyway?

The main reason I can see for Disney doing this is because the relationship with Pixar was icy, Disney had begun Toy Story 3 without Pixar, so presumibly they decided they couldn't do it alone, and just brought Pixar.

uchuff · 22 Jan 2006 at 13:51

Disney had a change of CEO last year, apparently he's really shaking things up - the new Disney may be different to the Disney of the last 20 years or so.

Elston · 22 Jan 2006 at 14:01

Maybe it's not so bad if Steve Jobs will be the biggest shareholder, he might be able to stop all these sequels from being churned out. Many people from the animation industry believe that disney has lost its creativity, Chicken Little was disneys attempt at a CG film and it just lacks in everything when compared to what Pixar, Dreamworks and BlueSky have done.
Pixar have done wonders for the Disney brand, they would have been silly to let them go and in my opinion probably would have struggled in the animation sector in the futrue.

Beansprout · 22 Jan 2006 at 14:03

In other words, Pixar bought Disney for -$7bn

Adding Jobs to a company can't be a bad thing, should be interesting at least

Chronos-X · 22 Jan 2006 at 15:40

I had no idea Jobs had anything to do with Disney, this is news to me.

Wonder what Walt would think

benjo plz. · 22 Jan 2006 at 16:53

Chronos-X said:
Wonder what Walt would think

I dunno, he'd probably have too much to say about how crap disney has become over the last decade.

Chronos-X · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:26

Lion King was alright!

benjo plz. · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:31

That was 94, not in the last decade

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Arcade Fire · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:46

Phnom_Penh said:
I dunno, he'd probably have too much to say about how crap disney has become over the last decade.

You seem to be forgetting the period from the early eighties almost to the end of the decade, when they were producing absolute crap. What we have now is much better than what we had then - even if they are a bit sequel-crazy! Almost all of the sequels are straight-to-DVD for the die-hard fans anyway, and it doesn't seem to slow down their rate of production of cracking cinematic releases.

Chronos-X · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:50

Arcade Fire said:
You seem to be forgetting the period from the early eighties almost to the end of the decade, when they were producing absolute crap. What we have now is much better than what we had then - even if they are a bit sequel-crazy! Almost all of the sequels are straight-to-DVD for the die-hard fans anyway, and it doesn't seem to slow down their rate of production of cracking cinematic releases.

Didnt they stop doing films as such from the 70s right up to Little Mermaid in what must have been the very early 90s ?

benjo plz. · 22 Jan 2006 at 18:34

Arcade Fire said:
You seem to be forgetting the period from the early eighties almost to the end of the decade, when they were producing absolute crap.
and it doesn't seem to slow down their rate of production of cracking cinematic releases.

Meh I wasn't alive then, if they were that bad I wouldn't have watched them.

Its more Pixar than Disney tbh, what "cracking cinematic releases" are you refering to?

NathanE · 22 Jan 2006 at 18:42

Nobody has bought anyone. Pixar has simply bought Disney for negative-$7bn. So effectively Pixar has changed its name to Disney and acquired all of Disney's portfolio and creative talent.

benjo plz. · 22 Jan 2006 at 18:50

Doubt it, Pixar and Disney had a bust up. Disney need Pixar more than Pixar need Disney, so they went and bought them.

TriedandTested · 22 Jan 2006 at 21:55

The deal isn't done..yet..

http://thedisneyblog.typepad.com/tdb/2006/01/whoa_there_sale.html

NathanE · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:35

It is now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4642116.stm

$7.4bn (£4.1bn)

Cheap IMO. Pixar could have been huge if they continued on how they were. Perhaps even bigger than Disney in another 15 years. But then, that's free market forces for you. The big swallow the small.

I wonder what Steve Jobs will spend his cash on.

Elston · 25 Jan 2006 at 03:32

I think it is more like Pixar buying Disney. Many key personel from Pixar have been given roles very high up the disney ranks. Steve Jobs is now the biggest board director at disney, John Lasseter is now head creative officier and advisor to the Disney themeparks!
It seems more like Disney bought Pixar to help them turn the Disney empire around.

This should help get some originality back into Disney's animation. Can only see this as a good thing. It clear who came out best in this deal.

Spunj99 · 25 Jan 2006 at 10:00

Just as Pixar were about to be freed from their Disney contract too!