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Once a division of Lucasfilm, Steve Jobs bought it out in 1986, renaming it Pixar Animation Studios. Within its first year as a spin-off, Pixar won its first Academy Award nomination for Luxo Jr. Establishing its presence in computer animation and graphics industries, Pixar quickly moved into movies. It's Renderman software created the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and the liquid metal cyborg in Terminator 2. Year after year, Pixar won kudos for its innovations in animation...
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...
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...
Throughout the day, O'Connor will be following events across the world, as countries such as New Zealand pass the critical Y2K threshold first...
...Lardner, public health nurse at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where a student survived a case of meningitis last fall, said first-year students' unfamiliarity with crowded dormitory living and their tendency to partake in "high risk behavior," such a drinking and smoking, makes them most likely to contract the disease...