“Steve Jobs wants to return to the Disney fold if Michael Eisner is ousted as CEO, The Post has learned,” Tim Arango reports for The New York Post. “In January, Jobs’ Pixar Animation Studios dealt a serious blow to Eisner when it announced it was ending talks on extending a lucrative movie deal with Disney. But lately, Jobs has told associates in Hollywood that he would like to re-up with Disney if Eisner is pushed out, according to sources close to Jobs.”
Arango reports, “When Pixar ended the talks with Disney, Jobs said in a statement that the company would enter talks with other studios. But now those talks are on hold as Jobs waits to see what Disney’s board of directors does in the wake of a shareholder revolt against Eisner, sources say. Competing studios are salivating at the chance to ink a deal with Pixar, which has produced such hit movies as ‘Toy Story,’ ‘Monsters Inc.’ and ‘Finding Nemo.'”
“If Pixar and Disney do not eventually re-ignite talks, Warner Bros. is believed to have a leg up over other studios in the race to forge a partnership with Pixar,” Arango reports.
Full article here.
This was no doubt what Jobs had planned all along (note that Pixar hasn’t announced a deal with anyone else even though they said they’d start negotiating early last month), though I’m sure Jobs thought Eisner would be gone by now. I think there’s a better than average chance that this news will finally push the Disney board to doing something about Eisner. They could ignore losing Pixar with no hope chance of getting them back, they could ignore the incredible stockholder vote of no confidence, but you add the chance of getting Pixar back and the prospect of Disney’s two most recent theatrical releases being duds and even the most incestuous board of directors has to be moved to do the obvious.
Pixar made the right move to blow Disney off if they are not willing to re-negotiate their deal taking into account the incredible value that Pixar brings to the table now compared to what they did when the relationship first started.
On a side note, this blinking banner “WINNER!! WINNER!! WINNER!!” is one annoying banner.
I think he is just going through the motions – he has to leave the door open a bit so as not to seem like an angry schoolboy – plus it certainly helps in negotiations with other studios!
Jayplus. I agree!!! MDN should screen out this sort of advertising crap!!! Jeez!
I second Jayplus and would like to add that any continuously blinking banner is irritating and hard on the brain. It does not make me want to stick around!
And you only get your free dinner after jumping through many hoops and surrendering your e-mail for sale to every spam list known to man.
I think flashing ads on the internet should be illegal; I’ll bet Al doesn’t claim credit for them!
If a those flashing banners caused me to have an epileptic seizure, that bad right?
Snoop Dogg is a flashing ad on the right as well. Annoying, intrusive and stupid (the ad and the artists).
Snoop Dogg is a flashing ad on the right as well. Annoying, intrusive and stupid (the ad and the artists).
The coolest ad I saw was one that you can play three rounds of minature golf.
Only idiot advertisers use a annoying flashing banner like above, gets people pissed and they are not receptive to anything they have to offer.
Guess we just have to ask Apple to enable a new Safari feature, the banner ads flash once and then freeze.
We could always use software that filters out all advertising from the html. Moron advertisers make this sort of software all the more popular.
We know we have to put up with a bit of advertsing because we may ourselves need to use it and we like sites like this. But if advertisers don’t play cool, then we will turn to filtering software and turn them all off.
SO GROW THE FUCK UP ASSHOLES!!!
I agree with the basic tenor of your post, but the obscenity was really uncalled for.
Well, Omniweb 5 (beta) lets you determine how many times an animated ad does its thing. Very nice.
You can simply size the page properly and scroll down a bit and not see any adds.
Steve sells Pixar to Disney as he did with the Next-�Apple move??
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Then Steve is CEO for the Apple and Disney and also Big owner of both companies.
Maybe we will see Apple and Disney merger??
Disney Apple with Mickey Mouse computers??
Then we will see IBM Apple Disney merger with AOL?
And Microsoft goes down
It will be The NEW General Electric
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World domination rules! =)
The flashing ads are the reason I keep plug-ins and anmated GIFs turned off normally.
What blinking banner? I guess PithHelmet blocked it.
STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT ADS, AND GO DOWNLOAD THE PITHHELMET SAFARI PLUG-IN
(gets rid of almost all ads :D)
that is why I love the mac community, just grabbed the pith helmet thing and its freaking awesome… thanks sjk and edd1e
Ahhh! Another happy PithHelmet user. Just installed. My aging eyes can now relax.
I wonder if Steve would go on using haitian and itinerants to make the Disney products