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Nintendo's intellectual property rivals Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm combined
“Nintendo is like Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm combined. I mean, they have some of the very best IP in the entire world. They've got three franchises that can stand toe to toe with anything at Disney in Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon.”
Steve Jobs demanded 100% of Pixar film profits in renegotiation with Disney
“He proposes a deal to Eisner, and this is where the relationship becomes irreparable. Pixar should actually be getting a hundred percent of the profits, not 50%, and they're now prepared to fund the budget themselves, too. Disney would just get a 10% distribut…”
ESPN's cash flow fully funded Disney's Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm acquisitions
“If you go line up those three acquisitions, which sound ludicrous on their price tags, especially when you didn't know how they were gonna pay off, Pixar at 7.4 billion, let's even include the cash in there, that's about two and a half years of cable's then pr…”
Rosenthal: Major entertainment franchises are unkillable like luxury brands
“I think these franchises, whether it's core Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel, are just like luxury brands. You cannot kill them. They will have uptimes and they will have downtimes, but they will always come back.”
Top weekly Disney+ movies are consistently Pixar and Disney Animation
“We've heard that the vast majority of the top 15 movies viewed every week on Disney Plus are either Pixar or Disney Animation. Not live action, not Star Wars, not The Avengers. The stuff that kids watch over and over. And those Disney animation movies are all …”
Disney secretly formed Circle 7 Animation to make Pixar sequels without Pixar
“Disney actually does start a new studio inside the company called Circle Seven Animation. That will be tasked with developing, right away, Toy Story III, Monsters, Inc. II, and Finding Nemo II.”
Pixar's IPO made Steve Jobs a billionaire, creating more wealth than Apple
“Pixar closes its first day of trading, At a one and a half billion dollar market cap, this is how big a hit Toy Story was and how much it was in the public consciousness. This is how Steve Jobs becomes a billionaire... He didn't make anywhere near that kind of…”
Gilbert: Toy Story franchise generated at least $3.5B in direct revenue for Disney
“Toy Story alone did over four billion at the box office, which means one and a half to two billion to Disney. Thirty billion in retail sales so far. Lifetime of all Toy Story consumer goods. So with Disney's five percent licensing fee on that, that's another t…”
Gilbert: Original Pixar films have set no box office records in a decade
“If you look at the new Pixar films developed in the last 10 years, nine, 10 years, none of them have set new records. The only record setters and real smash hits are these sequels.”
Iger secretly concluded Pixar's leadership needed to replace Disney Animation
“So during his CEO audition process, Bob Iger had completely lost faith that Disney animation can be fixed from within. And secretly he concludes that the only viable path to restore Disney animation to its proper glory is to replace the entire leadership team.…”
Gilbert: Toy Story was the first non-Disney animated blockbuster
“It made twenty-nine million in its opening weekend, went on to become the number one film in the U.S., and it was the first ever animated film That was a blockbuster that was not created by Disney.”
Gilbert: Pixar generated up to half of Disney Studios' operating income
“Pixar films have accounted for as much as half of the studio, Walt Disney's, operating income in recent years.”
Gilbert: Jobs invested $54M over 9 years and owned 78% of Pixar at IPO
“The numbers on Steve, he bought the company for five million dollars. He actually did dump fifty four million dollars into it. Over nine years. He was, like, wiring money for payroll and stuff like that, and on IPO day, he owned 78% of the company.”
Rosenthal: Disney and Pixar sold 65 million copies of Finding Nemo DVD
“Disney and Pixar would sell 65 million copies of the Finding Nemo DVD, all told, you know, across all, all timeframe.”
Gilbert: Beauty and the Beast featured Disney's first 3D animation
“The background of that Was actually three D rendered using Pixar software. And then they composited using caps, a two D hand drawn bell and the beast dancing. And that is the first time they used any three D animation in any Disney films.”
Pixar's 1995 IPO was larger than Netscape's
“So that hundred and forty million they raised makes it the largest IPO of the year. Larger than Netscape.”
Gilbert: Toy Story rendering required 117 Sun computers running hours per frame
“In those days, each frame would take an hour or two to render, and they could only render like three and a half minutes of footage per week. They were on this Sun Microsystems hardware that was state of the art at the time, and they had a 117 of them clustered…”
Gilbert: Pixar's first customer check came from Disney for CAPS
“The first check to Pixar Inc. Is from Disney to work with them and create the CAPS system for improving their two D animation.”
Gilbert: Jobs Paid $5M to Lucas and Invested $5M for 70% of Pixar in 1986
“He writes in 1986 a five million dollar check to George Lucas to buy the company. Another five million dollar check into a new entity that he just created to fund the company. It's formally named Pixar, and it is owned 70% by Steve Jobs and 30% by employees.”