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...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 CEO Steve Jobs abruptly ended...
...CHANGES Don't tell Nemo's dad, but if the female half of a pair of clown fish dies, the widower usually responds by turning into a female. In one species of marine worm, when two shes meet, the smaller becomes a he (but since males grow faster, they are likely to swap roles again). When too many male slipper limpets surround a female, the males change sex--then it's their turn...
...Finding Nemo was the kind of exception that proves that just when you're ready to declare the mainstream dead, it swims up and bites you on the tush. The year's top-grossing movie was also an example of just what it takes--in a culture broken down by tribes and ages and demographics--to make an across-the-board hit. People flocked to Nemo because it was a good movie, of course. It was moving, it was beautifully animated. And who doesn't like a good ink-spurting joke? But more important, it was about easy-to-agree...
Like the first volume, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (DC Comics; 224 pages), is set in England in the 1890s and features an all-star supergroup culled from the pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate...
...sure, there's longer-term concern about Disney's profit machines, ESPN and the Pixar alliance that produced Nemo. ESPN growth may stall as cable operators balk at the 20% annual-fee increases that ESPN has charged over the past several years. Pixar, run by Apple's Steve Jobs, has little incentive to keep giving Disney a full 50% share of the profits from Pixar pictures, along with a distribution fee, in exchange for splitting the costs. Several entertainment companies are offering Pixar more favorable terms than Disney's old deal, and Jobs is said to be getting peeved...