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...with Jimmy. I grew up on animation, I respect the medium's artistry and dote on its jokes. This week, while on vacation, I watched a few animated films: the Pixar movie Ratatouille, which opened yesterday in nearly 4,000 North American theaters; the Japanese science-fiction epic Paprika, now playing in 20 major cities; Aachi & Ssipak, which is playing at the New York Asian Film Festival; Queer Duck: The Movie, the tres gay comedy that's available on DVD; and for old times' sake, this year's Oscar-winning, made-in-Australia animated feature Happy Feet...
...were a police detective, what's the motive? Who has a vested interest in destroying the opening of the film? Of ruining the opening weekend box office?" By those parameters, a conspiracy to sabotage Sicko could involve anyone from the head of Pfizer to the folks behind Pixar's Ratatouille, which opens on June 29, when Sicko is scheduled to open nationwide...
Iger proved he is a shrewd operator early on. The day he was named CEO in the spring of 2005, he spoke to Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer and Pixar Animation chief executive whose stormy relationship with Eisner led him to court new production and distribution partners for Pixar's films. By the time Iger officially took over in October of that year, he and Jobs had mopped up the bad blood and discussed ways of adopting the iTunes model for selling video. They shook hands two weeks later on a pioneering deal to sell ABC programs on the video...
...digital age: Will the content companies (movie studios and TV producers) rule the day, or will the distribution channels (cable companies and devicemakers) prove more powerful? The deal with Apple gives Disney a strong presence on both sides. But Iger hopes to go much further--he wants Disney and Pixar characters and programs on the screens of every type of electronic gadget imaginable. "More and more people are using this technology to do all sorts of things," he says. "We need to be in the digital space at a much higher level to serve them better...
That's the effect a soupçon of Ratatouille, or almost any Pixar movie, can have on viewers. It returns us to animation's childlike wonders, and makes believers, gourmets...