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After unsuccessfully trying to acquire Disney, Comcast (owner of E! Entertainment Television) will bite back with “Minnie and Winnie (The Pooh): The True Hollywood Story...
...FEEL ABOUT DISNEY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL EISNER'S RECENT $6.25 MILLION BONUS? We've just had our biggest year in the history of the company, and nobody gave me a bonus...
That's fine for Disney-ABC but not for the movie industry, which used to earn extra millions by promoting favored films in the 40 days between the announcement of the nominations and the opening of the envelopes. The smaller artsy films and Oscar hopefuls released in late December could earn the majority of their box-office take in that period. "In terms of theatrical box office," says Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Films, "the money is in the nominations, not in the award...
...year marriage is an eternity by Hollywood standards. Still, it came as a shock last week when Pixar and Disney announced an end to their long and lucrative partnership. As a team, they had given moviegoers some of the greatest animated films in history, from Toy Story to last year's Finding Nemo, hauling in a total of $2.6 billion at the box office. The two studios have a profit-sharing deal, but Pixar wanted to end it early and pay Disney a straight distribution commission. Despite 10 months of negotiating, the two were still at loggerheads. Finally Pixar...
What led to the breakup? Sources close to talks, speaking to TIME on condition of anonymity, blamed it in part on strained relations between Jobs and Disney CEO Michael Eisner and in part some intractable business differences. Among the reasons for the bad blood: right after the success of Toy Story 2, Pixar creative head John Lasseter wanted to make Toy Story 3. Disney refused, unless the film would not count as one of the five included in the Pixar-Disney deal. That left Lasseter and Jobs fuming. They were also annoyed by the length of the talks, during which...