“Since Sunday’s announcement that the next Disney CEO will be the internally promoted Robert Iger, lots of news stories have come out advising Iger that his first move as CEO should be to find a way to extend Disney’s soured relationship with Pixar. Even a poll on Forbes.com had ‘securing a new deal with Pixar’ as the voters’ favorite in a landslide,” Rick Aristotle Munarriz writes for The Motley Fool. “I couldn’t disagree more.”
“Pixar’s leaving, folks. Get used to it. It doesn’t need Disney. It has the golden brand, immaculate box-office track record, and clean balance sheet that Disney can no longer offer. Flip the mentor some Mentos and move on. Pixar has earned the right to collect all of the fruits of its computer-rendered labor, so why tithe to the mouse-eared deity? The only reason that Pixar would come back would be to collect its belongings — the rights to the six franchises that it delivered under Disney’s watch. Disney would be nuts to box those up and heave them out the window,” Munarriz writes. “Unless we’re talking about Disney acquiring Pixar whole — a move that wouldn’t come cheap and would naturally require the blessing of its majority shareholder, Apple’s Steve Jobs — Disney and Pixar would simply be wasting each other’s time.”
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