Character Builders
The Jobs Effect COMPUTING MOVIES MUSIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MONSTERS INC.
FINDING NEMO
THE INCREDIBLES
Year released: 1999 Domestic gross: $246 million Worldwide gross: $486 million Milestone: At $90 million, the budget was three times that of the original Toy Story.
Year released: 2001 Domestic gross: $256 million Worldwide gross: $529 million Milestone: Pixar’s first best animated feature Oscar nominee, it lost to Shrek, but won best song.
Year released: 2003 Domestic gross: $340 million Worldwide gross: $867 million Milestone: The highestgrossing Pixar movie to date. Won the Oscar for best animated feature.
Year released: 2004 Domestic gross: $261 million Worldwide gross: $636 million Milestone: First Pixar film with all human cast; special software made characters glow subtly from within.
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, FROM LEFT: DISNEY/PIXAR— PHOTOFEST (5); WALT DISNEY/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION; DISNEY/PIXAR—PHOTOFEST
TOY STORY 2
BUENA VISTA PICTURES—PHOTOFEST; DISNEY PIXAR— PHOTOFEST; BUENA VISTA—PHOTOFEST; DISNEY— PHOTOFEST (2); BUENA VISTA PICTURES—PHOTOFEST
USING MASSIVE COMPUTING POWER TO SPIN UNFORGETTABLE STORIES, PIXAR WON SIX OSCARS, GROSSED BILLIONS, AND CUED A GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION.
CARS
RATATOUILLE *
WALL-E *
UP *
Year released: 2006 Domestic gross: $244 million Worldwide gross: $462 million Milestone: The merchan dise king of Pixar movies, Cars sold more than $5 billion in related products.
Year released: 2007 Domestic gross: $206 million Worldwide gross: $624 million Milestone: Won Oscar for best animated feature but had worst domestic take of any Pixar film this decade.
Year released: 2008 Domestic gross: $224 million Worldwide gross: $533 million Milestone: Pixar’s costliest film, at $180 million, it required 2,400 separate sound files.
Year released: 2009 Domestic gross: $293 million Worldwide gross: $617 million Milestone: The tale of a man who ties balloons to his house, it was Pixar’s first 3-D release.
*APPLE SOLD PIXAR TO DISNEY IN 2006; JOBS REMAINS A BOARD MEMBER AND DISNEY’S LARGEST INDIVIDUAL SHAREHOLDER.
ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN MCCABE
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