$7.7 Billion Pixar People
Last week, we noted that the terms of Disney-Pixar deal indicated the extent to which the impetus behind the buy-out was the bringing-into-the-Disney-fold of the key Pixar creatives who have been responsible for the company’s hugely profitable movies. In Slate today, Edward Jay Epstein takes a closer look at the numbers and determines that given the balance sheet of the deal, Disney is paying about $6 billion for the services of John Lasseter, et. al.
As Epstein notes, the rest of Hollywood is catching up with the technology behind Pixar’s huge hits (c.f.
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