One of the remarkable things about Pixar is that the Disney unit has never produced a flop.
It’s an amazing list: Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille and Wall-E.
Nine movies, nine success stories.
Can they make it 10 for 10?
Videogame publisher THQ saw its shares take a dive this afternoon after failing to meet its previous forecast and providing weak guidance for the next fiscal year. The failure was largely due to poor sales and multiple returns of its Wall-E game. The company will close five studios and cut marketing and general expenses as a result.
In Pixar Films’ upcoming animation epic, “Wall-E,” the title character is a cute but clunky robot whose centuries of solitude on an abandoned Earth is broken by the arrival of a svelte, futuristic robot named Eve–who is so white, gleaming and well, pod-like, that she looks like she was born in Apple’s design room. It [...]
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