Unexpected blow to Walt Disney Co. as Pixar seeks new distributor.

[Spartacus]

Pixar Animation Studios said on Thursday it ended talks with Walt Disney to renew a lucrative movie distribution deal...."After 10 months of trying to strike a deal with Disney, we're moving on,'' said Jobs, Pixar's chief executive......Pixar had complained that the terms of the distribution deal were tilted too heavily in Disney's favor....The existing deal between Disney and Pixar includes two more films in production, "The Incredibles,'' set for release in November and "Cars,'' due out in 2005.


MSN Money (http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P73485.asp)

Even though most of us knew it might happen, it's just now official. Disney is in some stinky crap now.

[King_O.F]

Even though most of us knew it might happen, it's just now official. Disney is in some stinky crap now.


wow... you really follow disney

lol

[Spartacus]

http://gcadvanced.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1433

Read post by Sean, Nintendo Steve and rottwylor.

:p

[Boondock Saint]

i saw this a few days ago floating around. i think disney just made a HUGE mistake. simply b/c pixar has truly delivered for them in the past decade, and disney has nearly struck out with most of its animation endeavors not associated with pixar (lilo and stitch being the exception i have in mind, though i'm sure there are one or two others). oh well, i'm still going to look forward to stuff from both companies.

[David85]

Disney should have been smarter, but they believe that its better for them. One guy went Pixar wanted 90% of the profits (They make 100% of the movie so why now?) and Disney didn't want that and believe that they could still make more money without them by making CGI movies even if they make 20% to 25% less money than the Pixar movies. What they don't seem to know is that they would be lucky to make 50% of what Pixar movies do.

[Wh|tE gUy]

90% of profits is down right rediculous, any way you cut it.

[Sean-AMN]

This is all a ploy by steve jobs folks to make Eisner look bad and roy good....

Savedisney.com

[Shoxx]

I wonder who Pixar will go to next... hopefully Universal or someone, because then it would be awesome.

[Matt]

Pixar may go with Universal. Rumor has it there is some sort of deal in the works. This is great because it would allow Pixar to expand a little too.

[Sabur]

I can see universal.... oh and yes disney looks bad right now but at least they bought the rights to the mupets... though i dont think they will do anything good with it since disney had fallen fast from its glorry days and i doubt they will get bought out by comcast now

[Matt]

Pixar Animation Studios is one of the best companies out there, and I am sure they will be fine. The Disney separation may actually be good for business.