Disney, Pixar Deal $7 billion US (3.9B Euro)

[Xela]

I thought it was a good thing actually. I love Disney, and maybe now they'll start making some good animated movies again. I hope so anyways.

 

[Tonichelle]

I thought it was a good thing actually. I love Disney, and maybe now they'll start making some good animated movies again. I hope so anyways.

I hope you're right... but it seems lately that Disney has decided crap is what sells.

 

[KermieBaby47]

Ha-ha, yeah, too bad it doesn't.

Look at "Valiant", wasn't it released on DVD like a week after it left theatres? LOL I still haven't seen Chicken Little, don't plan on it either.

Hopefully with Pixar under their roof, we'll see some GOOD storylines coming from Disney.

But I'm still hoping against hope that I get to see more hand-drawn animated Disney features before I die.

CGI is fun in a different way, but nothing - I mean NOTHING - beats classic animation.

 

[Blue Weirdo]

I was under the impression that the entire reason Pixar was going to get away from Disney is that Disney wanted to take over the creative process for the company and Pixar didn't want that.

So have they reached an agreement where Pixar still controlls their stuff just with Disney alongside or did Disney get what they wanted form the start?

 

[AndyWan Kenobi]

I'm very surprised--I had heard the rumors, but I didn't think it would actually happen. I'm cautiously optimistic, though. From all that I've read, it seems as though Disney really wants to be emulating Pixar right now, and has put Pixar's people in charge of their feature animation unit. Darn right--Pixar's earned it. Plus, I kind of like that Pixar and the Muppets are in the same family now. That just feels right to me based on how I feel about both.

 

[Speed Tracer]

I actually wasn't surprised by this. Pixar is Disney's biggest money-maker... no way were they gonna let them slip away.

I'm hoping this means an Incredibles sequel...

 

[OverUnderAround]

For those of us that saw the trailer of Pixar's "Cars" which was suppose to have come out late fall, but was put on the shelf till this summer does not seem like a promising picture for Pixar. History shows that movies that have been shelved and then released at a later date don't do well. Actually at least for me, the topic of talking "Cars" seemed so boring that I wouldn't waste my time on seeing it in a theatre.

If Disney's "Chicken Little" had been a blockbuster success, we probably wouldn't have seen this sale today.

I guess both company's need each other to make a future hit. I just hope they won't do a Muppet CGI movie, that would be sad.

On a sidenote, I'm looking forward to Paramount Pictures announced CGI trilogy of the Smurfs.

I think there will be battles between Disney and Pixar's people. Recently I was reading about how former Number 2 at Disney, Michael Ovitz in a lawsuit against Disney said that many Disney executives told him straight out they would not obey his orders. So it seems many executives at Disney have a "greater-than-thou" attitude even over their own boss. (That was from court transcripts by the way.) So Steve Jobs won't have an easy go.

Then there's Roy Disney who has/had been fuming with Disney and his own powerplay moves to rule.

Finally, since such big money is involved, Disney and Pixar will be kissing each other for a long-time, but where does that leave the Muppets?

 

[DTWolf]

I heard this on the NewsHour tonight and felt very depressed. I was so looking forward to seeing what Pixar would do once they were totally free of Disney--the Disney they no longer have any need for. Pixar made itself the best in U.S. animation and deserves to be its own independent studio. I wish they would stand on their own feet and continue to outdo themselves and everyone else in the country.

On the other hand--if Disney put Lassiter and his team in charge of animation and left them relatively free to do what they do best, it could indeed, as others have posted, mean we end up with extremely good Disney movies.

Here's hoping that happens, if we're not lucky enough to see the deal fall apart.

 

[Vic Romano]

I don't see how this is upseting. Yeah I heard that Pixar wanted out from Disney too, but what's happened since? Pixar hasn't made a bad movie under Disney, and it's obvious Disney has respect for them, so I think this is exciting.

 

[sugarbritchez]

I don't think it was Pixar that Shelved Cars anyway.......if I am not mistaken it was Disney who shelved it because of the release of Chicken Little. Anywho....like Vic said......nothing bad has ever come out from the Disney/Pixar vault....so we shoule assume that the future releases should be the same.