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17:41 - High places
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pixar27jan27,1,7868852.story?coll=la-mininav-b
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This qualifies as a "hot damn":
When Walt Disney Co.'s $7.4-billion acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios closes this summer as expected, Pixar's creative chief, John Lasseter, would be empowered to "greenlight" all feature animated movies at both studios, it was disclosed Thursday in a regulatory filing.
As is common in Hollywood, the ability to give a film the go-ahead comes with a caveat: Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger still would have final approval over anything set in motion by Lasseter, who would be chief creative officer at Pixar and Disney Animation, as well as at Walt Disney Imagineering.
In announcing the deal this week, Iger and Pixar Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Lasseter and Pixar President Ed Catmull would take the reins of Disney Animation from its leader, David Stainton. Catmull would report to Iger and Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook, and Lasseter would report solely to Iger.
Steve's already cleaning house.
And for those UNIX-minded conspiracy theorists in the house: this move represents the culmination of the long and invisible rise to power of the BSD tradition. Steve Jobs, champion of BSD-based Mac OS X, itself an evolution of BSD-derived NeXTSTEP, takes the wheel of Disney—and guess who created the original art of the BSD Daemon?
It all means something deeply significant, I tells ya. I feels it in me bones.
UPDATE: Hotter damn: no more Toy Story 3.
Now if only Lasseter can make this "no more unnecessary sequels" thing stick as general policy...
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Brian Tiemann
