January 20, 2006 3:08 AM PST

Disney board set to meet about Pixar merger

Meeting to come Sunday or Monday on whether to buy Pixar. Deal could revive Disney as world's dominant animator.

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The best Disney acquisition in years.
This could probably be the best acquisition Disney can make. After all, Pixar is the biggest money maker of computer animated, if not all animated, movies. Dreamworks only had Shrek to speak of, and even Shrek 2 didn't do as well as expected on dvd sales. Other studios, including Disney, have tried to compete with movies out of Pixar, but have not reached the same level of sales.

So, if Disney loses its distribution deal with Pixar, the Mouse will be in a lot of trouble. For Jobs, this is a win-win situation. If he approves the merging, he'll have access to more content from all the Disney library to make accessible through its iTunes stores, and whatever else he's got in mind with Front Row. Plus, he'll get to have power on influencing the direction of Disney.

Very nice.
Posted by Dead Soulman (246 comments )
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John Lassiter
he's the brains behind Pixar, not His Jobsness. If he doesn't
have a big role in the new Disney.....it's $6.4 billion for nothing.
Posted by mcthingy2 (64 comments )
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It's not the tool
It's what you do with it. Disney sucks because they forgot how to
tell a good story.
Posted by Caler (3 comments )
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Agree...
You used to be able to be an adult and go to Disney films without feeling like an idiot. Now Pixar has filled that void and left Disney behind eating there dust. They don't even need to switch to CG films, just make them good. This merger would be good for both Jobs and Disney.
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What has Pixar to gain?????
Right now it looks like Disney is on a losing track, at least on an
artistic level. Between trying to rewrite history and literature with
phony stories, coupled with obsolete and basically lousy
animation techniques, Disney Films is hardly even a shadow of
what Walt Disney created. SYrup and slop seems to be the
Disney motto.

So why would Pixar even consider linking up with Disney? Disney
may have a distribution system. but is that so unique??? If it is,
it's all Disney has to offer besides a lot of headaches.

I think that Disney should be coming on their knees to Pixar
begging for someone to kick start Disney back into quality
productions. Either that or Disney should just forget animation
films altogether.

I would miss the Disney that Walt created. I would not miss the
god awful mess that Eisner created.
Posted by Earl Benser (4342 comments )
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Jobs on the board
Maybe being on Disney's board will finally get Jobs out of that black turtleneck...really Steve...its getting tired.
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