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Hollywood and Silicon Valley have never mixed well. You've got cinéastes vs. nerds, celluloid vs. digital, silicone vs. silicon. Then there is Pixar, the delightfully confounding combination of the two: part high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...
...much is the wonderful world of Pixar worth? More than a billion dollars a picture, or $6.3 billion? That's what Disney agreed to spend last week to bring Lasseter, Jobs and the Pixar supporting cast into the Magic Kingdom. "Clearly, it's a lot of money," Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook told TIME, adding that "all the different scenarios had to be presented and analyzed" before the board would sign off. But Disney CEO Robert Iger, who took over from the controversial Michael Eisner in October, was determined to revive Disney animation, which has been starved for hits...
...well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer and then left the company in 1985 as a 34-year-old multimillionaire. His partner, Steve Jobs, is still innovating at Apple and moonlighting at his second blockbuster company, Pixar Animation Studios...
...animated animal ever—besting out the numerous big-eyed elephants, dogs, and bunnies in the Disney repertoire. Those giant glasses, that tiny green shirt, and the best lines in the movie instantly win you over. Sadly, Disney’s newest attempt to overcome the loss of Pixar is not nearly as charming as my new little love. Disney proves with “Chicken Little” that they can pull off a visually compelling computer-animated feature sans Pixar. The animation in the film isn’t simply Pixar-lite—part...
...nice or are as easy to use as the new iPod. And it works well--seamlessly, as Jobs would say--with the iTunes Music Store, which gives users a quick, legal and reasonably cheap way to buy video content (which so far consists of music videos, some charming Pixar shorts and a few TV shows from ABC, including Lost and Desperate Housewives). That is the kind of integration that Apple's approach makes possible...