Tram Town
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
| Category: Fillums (and some other stuff) Steve Jobs bought what became Pixar from George Lucas' ILM. He then found the best people he could to make animated fillums. He then got Disney to buy their next 6-8 fillums which were quite succesful. When the deal expired SJ shopped around for someone else to partner with. Part of the falling out was Toy Story 3 which Disney really wanted to make and Pixar thought it was past it's 'legs'. Disney got the rights to do it "in-house" and had made some progress. (Cut to the chase) In the final wash -- Disney bought Pixar; Jobs is now the biggest shareholder of the Walt Corporation; His and Lasseters first task was to axe TS3! The whole story is much more fascinating and I haven't done it justice. I suggest that you all do further research if you're interested. My friend Garry has some opinions. FWIW |
