Animating Pixar | Second Product Syndrome | 3
Business Movers
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Pixar struggles to recreate the success of Toy Story as problems plague their new productions and throw the company into turmoil.
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| 0:23.1 | It's |
| 0:24.1 | 1996 a year after the release of Pixar's debut film Toy Story |
| 0:29.6 | Inside his office Steve Jobs hangs up his phone with a sigh. He's just heard from Pixar's animation director John Lasseter |
| 0:37.6 | that their all-business partner Jeffrey Katzenberg is stirring up trouble again |
| 0:41.6 | Two years ago, Jeffrey, the former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, was forced out of the company. |
| 0:47.6 | In response, he started a rival animation studio called Dreamworks. |
| 0:53.6 | Now his studio is threatening to release a movie called Ants to directly compete with Pixar and Disney's latest joint film A Bug's Life. |
| 1:02.6 | Steve decides it's time to give their old partner a call. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, hello 60 years Jeffrey. Steve, is that you? What are you talking about? |
| 1:14.6 | 60 years of animation history and nobody had thought of doing a movie from an insects point of view |
| 1:20.6 | until John Lasseter and now all of a sudden you have the same idea. |
| 1:25.6 | Are you insinuating something Steve? |
| 1:27.6 | No, I'm not insinuating anything. I'm outright saying it. You're ripping us off. You heard our pitch before you left Disney. |
| 1:34.6 | No, I never heard any pitch Steve. You're a liar. You're lying through your teeth. |
| 1:39.6 | Steve, yes we're both doing movies about insects but you don't own insects Steve. |
| 1:46.6 | If you want someone to be mad at, be mad at Disney, I didn't want ants to be Dreamworks first film. |
| 1:51.6 | We had a movie called The Prince of Egypt. That was supposed to come out first but Disney forced my hand. |
| 1:56.6 | They set a bug's life to release the same weekend we're releasing Egypt so we decided to fight back. |
| 2:01.6 | But this isn't just getting back at Disney. This is hurting us too. |
| 2:05.6 | How many movie goers are going to see back to back films about ants? |
| 2:08.6 | Look, all I want is to keep a bug's life from competing with the Prince of Egypt. |
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