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Like Andy in Toy Story, audiences have a choice: they can drop their $7.50 on the technologically advanced new kid on the block or the familiar veteran. But in actuality, Pixar and Disney are more like the Buzz Lightyear and Wood of Toy Story 2. A blend of the new and old has equated victory. Buzz and Woody work together in Toy Story 2 to get Woody home after being kidnapped. Since 1989, Pixar and Disney have worked together to achieve mega financial and critical success and to blow the competition away...

Author: By Vivian Song, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cinemanic: Pixar | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

Being the new kin on the movie block, Pixar had yet to be a force in the movie industry. Luckily, Pixar and Disney teamed up in 1991 and committed to making up to three feature-length animated films. The first project, Toy Story rocked the movie industry. Under the terms of the relationship, Disney took over the finance side; Disney financed the movie and took charge of distribution, marketing, and distribution and took nearly 90% of the profits. With some 50 years of experience under its belt, Disney achieved financial success with Toy Story which grossed $360 million...

Author: By Vivian Song, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cinemanic: Pixar | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

With the success of their first venture, Pixar and Disney's friendship formalized in 1997 with a five-picture deal. The first picture, A Bug's Life, was released in 1998. Again, the friendship achieved critical and financial success. A Bug's Life broke the 1996 record for biggest Thanksgiving opening and critics dubbed it the winner of the bug movie war with rival movie Antz. And in 1999, Pixar and Disney released Toy Story 2. And again, Toy Story 2 is achieving critical and financial success. It didn't merely break the previous Thanksgiving record, it blew it away...

Author: By Vivian Song, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cinemanic: Pixar | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...that Disney has shown the ropes to Pixar, is Pixar ready to conquer new toy boxes...

Author: By Vivian Song, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cinemanic: Pixar | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...month later, Josh was similarly inconvenienced. Ever since he got lost in Disney s Frontier Land when he was 8, Josh has had a fear of large crowds. But, that didn t stop FM from forcing him to drive to New York, in the middle of the night, with an orthodontically adorned Asian boy, to cover MTV s "So You Want to Be A VJ Contest." It seems that FM s crack team of personnel managers couldn t find a single other person capable of operating a manually focusing camera. Josh stood in line for over seven hours, amidst hoards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Groupies | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

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