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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by Traster on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:22PM (#21468194)
To be honest the reputation I see in Disney is they just buy everything - and they're very good at that. However, I don't think it's the same thing for Disney to create fantastic to CG animation, and Disney to buy Pixar.
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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by FillardMillmore on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:43PM (#21469287)
They are of course proficient at worthwhile acquisitions (Marvel and Lucasfilm come to mind) but they also still make movies that rake in the cash. Their recent remake of the Lion King had a box office of 1.655 billion. It is of course debatable whether or not these remakes are as good as the originals or whether they maintain the creativity and originality that Disney has become known for, but it doesn't seem to be debatable that they are successful financially.

Not to mention, Disney is excellent at marketing. Top of their class, I'd say.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by WillPostForFood on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:06PM (#21469017)
I don't think it's the same thing for Disney to create fantastic to CG animation, and Disney to buy Pixar.

They are doing both (creating and buying). They bought Pixar, but are also making movies internally that are comparable in quality like Frozen, Big Hero 6, Moana, and Wreck it Ralph.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:14PM (#21469073)
> bought Pixar, but are also making movies internally that are comparable in quality like Frozen,

Frozen was done after the Pixar acquisition and helmed internally by the same director from Pixar that Disney had sought to have do it when they wanted to do it with Pixar before the acquisition, so, while it wasn't organizationally within Pixar but at Disney Animation Studios, I'm not sure you can really describe it as not independent of the Pixar acquisition.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by WillPostForFood on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:31AM (#21480368)
Frozen was written by Jennifer Lee and directed by Jennifer Lee & Chris Buck, and produced by Peter Del Vecho. All three were from Disney Animation, none of them ever worked for Pixar.
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