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Disney working on project to make "Toy Story 3"
17/11/2004 15:08

The Walt Disney Studios is proceeding with a project to make "Toy Story 3," a move that could degenerate its already rocky relationship with Pixar Animation Studios, the Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday.
Disney is in the process of setting up a digital animation facility in Los Angeles that will be used for the production of " Toy Story 3," the report said.
Under the old deal between Disney and Pixar, Disney has the right to do sequels to "Toy Story." Disney has held off from doing so in the past, in part in deference to Pixar CEO Steve Jobs and executive Vice President John Lasseter, both of whom refused to lose control of the characters.
But with Pixar announcing earlier this year that it would end its distribution relationship with Disney following the 2005 release of the Lasseter-directed "Cars," Disney CEO Michael Eisner and studio head Dick Cook have signaled their determination to make the second sequel to "Toy Story" franchise.
Pixar decided to terminate its partnership with Disney after it failed to persuade the latter to share more benefits from future animation projects.
The "Toy Story 3" project was led by David Stainton, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation. Andrew Millstein, who headed the company's now-shuttered animation facility in Orlando in Florida, has begun the process of recruiting animation heavyweights from rival animation studios and effects shops.
The Disney-Pixar partnership has been the most successful in Hollywood history of animation movie-making, which has produced two "Toy Story" movies, "A Bug's Life," "Monsters Inc.," "Finding Nemo" and the latest hit "The Incredibles," all of them has achieved huge box office success. 

 



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