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...cinéastes vs. nerds, celluloid vs. digital, silicone vs. silicon. Then there is Pixar, the delightfully confounding combination of the two: part high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...
...much is the wonderful world of Pixar worth? More than a billion dollars a picture, or $6.3 billion? That's what Disney agreed to spend last week to bring Lasseter, Jobs and the Pixar supporting cast into the Magic Kingdom. "Clearly, it's a lot of money," Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook told TIME, adding that "all the different scenarios had to be presented and analyzed" before the board would sign off. But Disney CEO Robert Iger, who took over from the controversial Michael Eisner in October, was determined to revive Disney animation, which has been starved for hits...
...Although Disney is buying Pixar's talents in digital animation, including proprietary software, the key asset is more prosaic: Pixar's superior skill at telling stories. "We won't let anything get ahead of the quality of the story," Pixar president Ed Catmull told TIME. "It's meant we have not increased production at the rate we have wanted...
...alongside similar shows at Boston University and the University of North Carolina. The show’s website has also received hits and downloads from people as far away as Texas and the Pacific Rim. Degroff even claims that the production team was contacted by a producer from the Disney Soap Network, although nothing has come of the communications yet. But Degroff says the staff’s goals are still primarily local. “I love that we’re getting people in Korea watching the show, but we want people in this school watching the show...
...with three terrific movies the kids can see without irreparable social damage and their keepers should enjoy. Chicken Little is a genuine Disney cartoon, with a storytelling sense and graphic precision worthy of the old animation masters. The title character (voiced by Zach Braff) has huge glasses, a studious mien, not the best posture. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying to win a chaotic baseball game or shaking a tail feather in his patented chicken dance. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles...