{"id":424,"date":"2006-01-25T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2006-02-11T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T23:54:37","slug":"disney-and-pixar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Disney and Pixar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs became even richer yesterday when Disney announced it is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060125\/ap_on_bi_ge\/disney_pixar\">buying Pixar<\/a> (Jobs is founder and CEO) for $7.4 billion. Yes, with a &#8220;B&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it had to. The only Disney&#8217;s own animated studios haven&#8217;t put out a hit movie since &#8220;The Lion King&#8221;. The days of &#8220;Little Mermaid&#8221; and &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; are long gone. Anyone remember the debacle that was &#8220;Brother Bear&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time Pixar has had hit after hit. They ignore the PC pandering and put out hits like &#8220;Toy Story&#8221;, &#8220;Monsters Inc.&#8221; and &#8220;The Incredibles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The only way this will be successful is if Disney stays away from Pixar&#8217;s creative decisions. If day Disney pushes a Pixar movie with an environmental message is the day we see Pixar&#8217;s first flop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs became even richer yesterday when Disney announced it is buying Pixar (Jobs is founder and CEO) for $7.4 billion. Yes, with a &#8220;B&#8221;. I suppose it had to. The only Disney&#8217;s own animated studios haven&#8217;t put out a hit movie since &#8220;The Lion King&#8221;. The days of &#8220;Little Mermaid&#8221; and &#8220;Beauty and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disney and Pixar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}