Cars...

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Wait...what?

This is poorly written, so I can't tell if it's wrong or if it doesn't make sense.

Pixar has to date produced nothing for Walt Disney Feature Animation and we'll likely never see something produced in-house by Pixar, but branded as a WDFA production. Pixar is a successful brand name and Disney wouldn't likely abandon that brand in an effort to prop up its own productions. They will, however, try to get some of the folks from Pixar to imbue a bit of their own corporate culture into WDFA and try to revive it to its glory days.

As Madison has written, Pixar was only recently acquired by Disney in January. Here is an article about the acquisition.

Prior to this, Disney served mainly as the distributor for Pixar films, but took in the lion's share of profits. Their original agreement was for Pixar to deliver a specific number of films, to which Disney would hold the rights for all sequels. To date, Toy Story 2 is the only sequel.

The delay of Cars may have been due to technical work, but it also didn't help that an economic struggle was going on between Pixar (Steve Jobs, CEO) and Disney (Michael Eisner, then CEO). Pixar wanted a larger share of future profits, and Disney was unwilling to agree. The canning of Eisner led to a smoothing of relationships between the two companies, which finally ended up in Disney buying Pixar.

Disney would be insane to put their "brand" onto the Pixar movies. Name the 7 Pixar movies released to theaters, and then try to name the last seven Disney animations released to theaters. (Using the internet is CHEATING!)