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STEVE JOBS, CEO of animation firm Pixar, badmouthing his former partener, which has the right to make sequels to seven Pixar flicks...
Suicide bombs in Kabul; Kerry's cupcakes; al-Qaeda master forgers; Michigan's e-ballots; Pixar pals to part...
...year marriage is an 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...
...breakup? Sources close to talks, speaking to TIME on condition of anonymity, blamed it in part on strained relations between Jobs and Disney CEO Michael Eisner and in part some intractable business differences. Among the reasons for the bad blood: right after the success of Toy Story 2, Pixar creative head John Lasseter wanted to make Toy Story 3. Disney refused, unless the film would not count as one of the five included in the Pixar-Disney deal. That left Lasseter and Jobs fuming. They were also annoyed by the length of the talks, during which weeks would...
Even superheroes have midlife crises. In The Incredibles, due in November from Pixar, over-the-hill Hercules MR. INCREDIBLE (Craig T. Nelson) struggles to adapt to life as a suburban family man and insurance-claims adjuster. The film, which also stars Holly Hunter as Elastigirl, Mr. Incredible's wife, and Samuel L. Jackson as his friend Frozone, follows a powers-packed family at a time when "superheroes are considered cumbersome," says writer-director Brad Bird, who helmed 1999's The Iron Giant. "There are legal problems. They're put into the equivalent of a witness-relocation program." And we thought...