But, recently, it has been all about the money.
For the record, this is
not a recent development...
But then again, Pixar is owned by Disney. Therefore, I guess that Disney will concentrate on Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers crap and leave the animation to Pixar.
Also, did you know that Pixar plans the release of Monster Inc. 2 and Cars 2
While Disney did acquire Pixar, they have actually more of a partnership than anything else. Disney-Pixar's first flick was
Cars and for the foreseeable future will remain together. Pixar owns the films outright and does the marketing, while Disney is the distributor of the films.
You are kind of right about Disney giving up on it's animation studio and letting Pixar do the animation, but only to the extent that John Lasseter (one of the founding members of Pixar) is the head of both studios. Disney is still producing films in the 'Classic' line (which includes Snow White, Lady & the Tramp, Aladdin, etc.), however the last three have been non-Pixar CGI flicks:
Chicken Little,
Meet the Robinsons &
Bolt. Though this year's
The Princess and the Frog will be more traditional 2-D animation (which incidentally, is also animated with computers
).
And yeah, I did know about the sequels, tho' I'm not all that excited. I'm more interested in Newt, which is a their next original piece.
And apparently they may be getting into live-action with
1906 (about the SF earthquake) and
John Carter of Mars, but no one seems to be able to figure out to what extent Pixar will be involved with these movies. If they'll be total Pixar productions or if Pixar is just providing CGI effects to a live-action flick produced by another company.