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Heart and care and talent and craftsmanship are what create wonderful movies, and Pixar has Disney trumped in that department by, oh, about a trillion percent. It's not craftsmanship -- Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Atlantis, Dinosaur, Lilo and Stitch etc. are beautifully designed and...

And no bloody way do I pay to see the cheapquels made to Walt Disney's films, nor will I even dane to *watch* them. The coming Bambi: Platinum Edition DVD contains a preview for the cheapquel, Bambi II. Like painting an ad for a Hillary Duff movie on the Sistine Chapel.

You can't take the money and then bitch later. Look, the hard cold truth is that Pixar is just as much to blame for signing that contract to begin with. They took the money, but they don't own their work. Folks, Walt Disney himself learned that hard lesson when Charles Mintz stole Oswald the...

One, just what does Disney contribute to a Pixar film? Financing, Marketing, and Distribution -- Disney pays for half of the production costs (which are considerable), Disney also handles the marketing (and usually does a tremendous job) and lastly Disney provides distribution for theatrical...

He wants to re-render the films in CGI. Much of the character animation still exists in the animation morgue, meaning the original, uninked drawings. See the Treasure Planet DVD for an example of taking the original animation from Peter Pan and porting it onto a CGI model.

"That said, I remember Lasseter and company being very careful to stress when Toy Story was released that Disney's participation was important in terms of learning how to develop and produce an animated feature." John Lasseter cut his teeth working for Disney, his first experiences with CGI...

Technically, the war-time goodwill feature The Three Caballeros is the first theatrically-released Disney feature that was a sequel to another previous film (in this case, the triple-Oscar nominee, Saludos Amigos). It is the only Disney animated feature to sport characters recurring from a...