[Trash-talk] Re: @nette's Enjoy the Silence
Ian Abbott
iabbott at ruiner.demon.co.uk
Sat Apr 24 13:24:17 PDT 2004
On 24 Apr 2004, at 8:02 pm, trash-talk-request at tcp.com wrote:
> I'd love to work for Pixar or Disney. No, Pixar is not a part of
> Disney............ anymore...
>
> @nette
Pixar *never* was a part of Disney. A lot of my mates work over in
Emeryville and would never work for Disney. :)
Disney didn't have anything whatsoever to do with any of Pixar's output
- they only distributed the films and promoted Pixar toys in the Disney
Stores. Despite this total lack of creative input towards Pixar
productions (no contribution to casting, scripting or animation) Disney
took 50% of Pixar's profits due to the 1997 Co-Production Agreement.
Disney did help co-fund Pixar's first project Toy Story but beyond that
Pixar essentially paid for all their own work.
That's why Steve Jobs, CEO of Pixar since its formation in 1986 (and
also CEO of Apple), finally took Pixar away from Disney. They wanted to
renegotiate the CPA so that Pixar could get the money it truly deserved
for its work and Disney said "no, we want our 50%" (some even say that
Eisner argued for *more* money to bolster the floundering Disney
Animation Studios who were reeling from expensive flops like Treasure
Planet). Pixar are now being wooed by every other studio in the
business and Michael Eisner's position at Disney looks rockier each and
every day. Jobs has also implied Pixar would be happy to rebuild
relations at an Eisner-free Disney. Unfortunately, the current CPA
allows Disney to self-produce sequels to the Pixar projects made during
the CPA, which means a crappy Toy Story 3 away from Pixar is in the
works.
Full info at http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/aboutus/
Ian
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