Disney buys Pixar?

As far as i understood, Walt Disney is very interested in buying Pixar for about $7 mlrd. Now Pixar is ruled only by Steven Jobes who is also the manager of the Microsoft competitor - Apple Computer so the idea of buying the company is still being discussed by Disney company. Pixar made a really good job for Disney taking into consideration the last two animated hits - "Finding Nemo" and "The incredibles". Anyway, guess we will find really soon when this is going to happen.

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I believe it's more or less a done deal already.

Anyway, any significant change at Pixar worries me a bit, but it sounds like they're keeping key people and processes, so I don't think we'll see a major dropoff in quality, or anything of the sort. And thank goodness for that.

Ive Noticed that, animation wise, pixar has by far the best. Computer animation is getting lazy with films like "Hoodwinked" and "valiant"

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I'm a big fan of the old stuff. The old animation where it is all drawn. I'm not too fond of this CGI crap. But, that's just an opinion.

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It's really quite a shame Disney got rid of all the drawing tables and just threw them out. I'm not too fond of their 3D movies, like Chicken Little.

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I heard that was done a while back....

did anyone else hea that Mdascare will be the last annimated movie that will be relaeased by Disney that is 2-D from now on the rest will be the new style like Shrek and Ice age

Actually, Madagascar was a DreamWorks film, not a Disney film, and it wasn't actually 2D; it was just slightly stylized to subtly look that way from certain angles.

Your are right but the last movie that Disney put out that was 2-D was in fact their last!!!

Same here. Old classics like the early Disney collections are great stuff. The CGI stuff is still pretty cool but I think the art of drawing has been lost.

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I think it's a good merger and it will make alot of $$$$$$, but I agree the old animation is a lost art and they had some really cool stuff stuff back then.

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the merger will definitly make a lot of $$$ but i'm not so sure it was such a good idea

well future will tell

Well Cars was a big success so I think the merger is off to a good start

So it's always going to be CGI? It's never going to be like before CGI?

What happened to the 2-D animation(except for The Simpson Movie), It's like they decided that Computer Animation is the new best thing and just threw 2-D in the trash. COMPUTER ANIMATION IS TAKING OVER ANIMATION AND NEEDS TO BE STOPPED. What do you think?

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Pixar Movies
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
A Bug's Life
Monsters Inc.
Ratatuoille
Toy Story
Toy Story 2

Disney CGI Movies
Chicken Little
Meet the Robinsons
The Wild

DreamWorks Animation
Shrek
Shrek 2
Shrek the Third
Madagascar
Over the Hedge
SharkTale

Sony Animation
Open Season
Surf's Up

Warner Bros.
Happy Feet
Polar Express

20th Century Fox
Doogal
Hoodwinked
Ice Age
Ice Age: Meltdown

Almost every distributor has Computer Animation Movies.
That's very sad.

Why is that sad? CGI, hand drawn, stop motion, etc... They're all tools to tell a story. I don't understand why people get so wrapped up in technology. I'm for CGI and I'm for traditional animation. That's like saying movies are going to crap because of digital.

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Pixar put Disney in the spot light with Toy Story, but I like how they're moving forward with Fox, Dream Works, and Warner Bros. It's a step up from the cookie cutter CGI animated films they did for Disney. Plus Madagascar and Shrek are classics

I loved Pixar's works so I think all this money is worth it. I almost fell off the chair when seeing how much money is involved, but then realised... well .. they're good

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This was something I saw a month or so ago somewhere on the web, where Disney has stated they are getting out of the computer animtated film business and going back to their roots after Meet the Robinsons, they won't be doing any other cg films.

Pixar, however, will continue to do the computer animated films under, just like they do now.

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I understand the investment and the lucrative deals, but when is Disney going to stop hiring geeks to do artists jobs and make another ANIMATED feature! They have sucked since Alladin... and they keep releasing these sacreligious straight to video sequals of the classics... Makes me want to cry. Was Walt really cryogenically frozen cuz we need to get on this and wake that man UP so he can save us from the Eizners of the world.