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...Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.--the gold standard in computer-generated imagination. Gold, as in $1.73 billion worldwide gross for that quartet, plus truckfuls more in video and DVD profits. Pixar owner Steve Jobs will need a battleship to hold all the money his current distribution partner, Disney, will need to fork over to renew their contract, which expires in 2005. The two studios now split the profits from Pixar movies, but since Pixar's CGI movies have been grossing nearly twice what the Mouse House's own animated films take in, Jobs wants a more grownup portion...
Ally concedes that Timothy will own companies that "are not wholly righteous," such as Dell, which provides benefits to gay partners of employees. But Ally avoids "those that are pursuing an unholy agenda," including, he says, AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company) and Disney, which create "antifamily entertainment" and support "nonmarried lifestyles...
There are plenty of pictures on the way. This year Bruckheimer will release Bad Boys II (Martin Lawrence and Will Smith), Pirates of the Caribbean (Johnny Depp fulfilling somebody's really strange dream of bringing a Disney ride to the screen) and Veronica Guerin, the story of a murdered Irish journalist that's being delayed until the high-profile holiday season because the studio thinks the man who just months ago brought us Kangaroo Jack might be a candidate for his first Oscar. And Bruckheimer is making more television. The Amazing Race, the closest a reality show has ever...
Under the new rules, it will be easier for federal credit unions to expand from serving workers at a single company to serving others in the same industry. Walt Disney's credit union, which had been restricted to Disney employees, their families and affiliated firms, may now apply to court any worker in the entertainment business in Los Angeles; Orlando, Fla.; or anywhere else that the credit union has a branch. Credit unions chartered to serve bundles of companies may expand to a new company simply by installing an ATM; previously a full-service branch was required. And the government...
...channel owned by Murdoch's Fox Corp. With production and distribution support from Fox, Saban built the Power Rangers into a massive global franchise and in 1996 merged his media company with Murdoch's, eventually forming Fox Family Worldwide. In 2001, when he and Murdoch sold Fox Family to Disney for $5.3 billion, Saban cashed out for $1.5 billion...