STUDIOS SUE PIXAR, DEMAND BAD MOVIE

[BJ_M]

"Stop making the rest of us look bad," demand Hollywood executives

Hollywood — The eight major Hollywood studios have filed suit against CGI animation company Pixar for its consistent record of quality movies. The complaint alleges that with its sixth consecutive profitable and critically acclaimed film in “The Incredibles,” Pixar is overturning a decades-long public relations campaign waged by Hollywood studios to convince the public that it’s impossible to consistently make high quality films. “If Pixar doesn’t get with the program, we’re going to have to fundamentally change the way we do business,” groused Paramount chairwoman Sherry Lansing, whose studio hasn’t produced a hit film in several years. “I repeat my recommendation to Steve Jobs that he pay John Travolta and Halle Berry $20 million each to provide voices for an effects-laden remake of ‘The Fox and the Hound.’”
Plaintiffs in the suit are Paramount, Universal, MGM, Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, and Sony Pictures. All eight studios have worked together since 1980 in a sophisticated PR effort to make all Americans believe that it’s inevitable most films will be poor to mediocre. The campaign has included payoffs to critics, training for film school professors, and talking points distributed to corporate spokespeople. Because of the successful campaign, executives have successfully built a system in which they spend tens of millions of dollars each year on development and end up producing as many critically and commercially successful films as a monkey throwing darts at a board would, according to scientific studies.

Asked for comment, a Pixar spokesperson said he believes the suit was motivated by studio executives’ indignation that Pixar and Apple CEO Steve Jobs refused to send them each a free iPod Photo.

According to the studios’ talking points, it’s impossible to consistently make more than 50% of films be high quality, with an average hit to miss ratio of 1:2. But with its six profitable and acclaimed films, Pixar is beginning to make many Americans questions why it actually seems possible to consistently make successful films.

“Those guys are ruining it for everybody,” said Warner Bros. president Alan Horn. “We can’t possibly be expected to stay in business when we’re up against a studio that doesn’t have dozens of unqualified young executives with little or no background or interest in film meddling in the creative process of all their movies.”

“It just goes to show what I’ve always said,” added Universal Chairwoman Stacy Snider. “It should be illegal for companies outside of Los Angeles to produce motion pictures.”

The complaint asks that a court award the eight studios $1 billion in damages or compel Pixar to hire 118 unqualified development executives, option the rights to 38 scripts and books it has no intention of turning into films, and immediately greenlight sequels to “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo” with $100 million-plus budgets and hire directors whose only experience is in music videos to oversee them.





http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=340

[SLICK RICK]

All eight studios have worked together since 1980 in a sophisticated PR effort to make all Americans believe that it’s inevitable most films will be poor to mediocre.

What kind of shit is that?

They are mad because they cannot compete with Pixar.

[ZAPPER]

thats almost funny
I don't know if I know all six movies, Shrek 1&2 ? Toy story 1&2 and Inredibles(I havent seen yet) looked to me to be well done movies
(I am thinking that this a joke, right?)

[Captain Satellite]

Obviously a joke - get with it, guys!

[ViRaL1]

Shrek is DreamWorks, not PIXAR. The PIXAR films are Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.

[holistic]

..........Steve Jobs refused to send them each a free iPod Photo.

Not from the onion but 'smells' the same. Good satire. Keep 'em coming.


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Oh stop it ... it hurt's. Bwwwahawahhhh

[ZAPPER]

Shrek is DreamWorks, not PIXAR. The PIXAR films are Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.

Yep seen em all except Incredibles, they were still good movies for what they are

I figured it was a joke, but you got to be careful calling a bluff round here! And I ain't up on all the Hollywood triva and goings on so I wasn't going to call "Bullshit" and be wrong

[ZAPPER]

holistic
GoldClubMember

What GoldClub? They shut down the one in Atlanta

[glockjs]

i think i looked at the post like 3 times and think im reading it wrong...and if i read it right...that cant be right

[gll99]

All the articles on the linked site are spoofs. They look like they are discussing legitimate news but stretch it to the ridiculous.
Look at the article discussing the CBS/Dan Rather story about GWB and his National Guard service. They put microsoft word colored spell check lines on the document and have statements where Dan Rather defends their presence. Remember this was supposed to be a typed document.
The other "Unrelated news stories are the same.

[d_unbeliever]

unbelievable!!!!

by the d_unbeliever

[Shocker Milwaukee]

All eight studios have worked together since 1980 in a sophisticated PR effort to make all Americans believe that it’s inevitable most films will be poor to mediocre.

What kind of shit is that?

They are mad because they cannot compete with Pixar.

Damn, Rick.... Pull the hook out of your mouth!

[glockjs]

i really need to click on links more often

i see how it is, BJ_M got jokes :P

[BJ_M]

i have what they call dry humor -- which really means no one gets it usually

[ZAPPER]

OK, Here is kind of what went on in my mind the other night.

I see a topic that says STUDIOS SUE PIXAR. My mind thinks Hey, WTF? I thought that Pixar is good clean name for kids movies. What ******** are going to sue them? So I start reading, Yada yada quotation mark, (Oh oh someone is about to say something stupid) yada yada, end quote (yep I was right, it was stupid) so I read on. Yada yada yada, more stupid things in quotes, yada yada, pretty soon it all looks like its in quotes or an opinion that is pretty stupid, but I keep reading not really comprehending what is being said, because it doesn't make any sense to me, Yada yada, finishing quote(still stupid).

My mind says WTF? That can't be right. Oh look there is a link to qualify this, maybe it will all make sense after I get all the facts. So I click on the link. A site from what must be a Hollywood gossip rag appears. So my eyes verify that the link is the orginal of what I just read in BJ_Ms post. I figure that I just read it once I ain't going to read it again because I don't know these people and I don't know WTF they are talking about. This gossip rag site looks like it is full of stupid shit, I ain't staying here to find out. So back to the post.

My kids got all of the released tapes and I kind of think that the flicks are nice, and I thought that these movies were like some kind of modern techno mirical or something.

So I figure, In for a penny, in for a pound. I might as well reply being as I am here. Not even realizing that I was being "had" I typed "thats almost funny" because it seemed so stupid that if it were true it would be, Well... stupid! Then I tried to think of all of the pixar movies, to reinforce my thoughts that the movies where in fact all good or successful movies. As you have seen I couldn't guess all of the Pixar movies, but I did note that I thought that all of the movies I knew of, were fine movies. I then realized that I wasn't in Kansas any more and things may not be what they appear to be. So I fessed up and let it out that I kind of know that my leg was being pulled. And that is how my first reply came to be.

What a twisted convuluted site we have here. I like it!

[glockjs]

i have what they call dry humor -- which really means no one gets it usually

everybody is laughing WITH you...its all good :P

[beric3236]

I have seen all the Pixar Movies and proudly own a few of them. I did see "The Incredibles" and it had a trailer for a new movie to be released in 2005 called "Cars" which also looks to be excellent. With KMart buying out Sears, maby Pixar will buy Disney !! You Thunk ????

[dvdguy4]

And then they said it was piracy that was hurting revenues. If they make better movies to see in theaters then maybe , just maybe people would be willing to shell out $10 to go and see it the way it was meant to be seen. Not on the computer.

PIXAR rocks while one "fox" is waiting for the release of Star Wars Ep3

LOL at greed.

[tekkieman]

Funny, but the highest grossing movie ever came from Warner Bros. True, that's only one. The next few probably sucked.

[canadateck]

Shrek is DreamWorks, not PIXAR. The PIXAR films are Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.

Yep seen em all except Incredibles, they were still good movies for what they are

I figured it was a joke, but you got to be careful calling a bluff round here! And I ain't up on all the Hollywood triva and goings on so I wasn't going to call "Bullshit" and be wrong

I was thing that same thing...LOL

[EvilWizardGlick]

And then they said it was piracy that was hurting revenues. If they make better movies to see in theaters then maybe , just maybe people would be willing to shell out $10 to go and see it the way it was meant to be seen. Not on the computer.

PIXAR rocks while one "fox" is waiting for the release of Star Wars Ep3

LOL at greed.

Hollywood has major problems. That is why they are resorting to more and more remakes. Some of the upcoming include Flight of the Phoenix, Six Million Dollar man and Dukes of Hazard.
Meanwhile Korea is releaseing hot romantic comedies and very good action films. Hollywood has already "remade" ( read crappy copies) titles like the Ring, Ju-on the Grudge, and upcoming Infernal Affairs and My Sassy Girl. I can not imagine just how bad the last two will be.
Why can't they just release the originals? Shaolin Soccer became the most downloaded film on the internet when Miramax took YEARS to release it. Hero was another excellent work held up by shortsighted money grubbing studios.
If all that wasn't bad enough, look at the shortsighted stupidity exhibited over Fahrenheit 911.
And yet they will price fix the price of cd's and dvd's.
The same problem exists with television. The best shows these days appear on either cable, FX ( The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me) Comedy ( South Park The Daily Show), or the movie channels ( Sopranos, The Wire, Dead Like Me, DeadWood, Carnivale, etc). Instead of hiring better writers, they put more money into the far less expensive reality shows.

[Gurm]

Pixar movies rock. Toy Story 1 & 2 were great, Monsters Inc. was great. Finding Nemo was just amazing. It worked on many levels. They're movies your kids can watch 100 times and you still chuckle at the jokes for grown-ups.

Then "The Incredibles" came out. I wanted to see it, of course, but I had no idea just HOW good it would be. It was aimed at older kids, so the "grown up" stuff could be even more subtle. There's this whole secondary plotline about how their marriage is in trouble that the kids just don't get. There's a GREAT scene (no spoilers, jeez) where Helen thinks Bob is cheating on her, and is trying not to cry as she tells him she loves him that's just AMAZINGLY well done. It's not high cinema, but it's good even by "Hollywood" standards, nevermind animation standards.

Then later on, the daughter (who is 14 and, like most young teens just starting to understand the adult world) says "mom & dad's lives could be in danger - or worse, their MARRIAGE". Then the 8-year-old says "the bad guys... are trying... to wreck mom & dad's MARRIAGE?" and she says "GOD, you are SO IMMATURE!"

It's a GREAT film. It works on so many levels. Pixar gets better and better. Exactly the sort of company that needs to exist. AND their films appeal to the techno-geek in all of us.

[Bodyslide]

i have what they call dry humor -- which really means no one gets it usually

That link has some pretty funny articles on it. Thanks for the laugh...

:P

[Darth Paris]

I am not much into Pixar stuff, but if they are getting crap for being good then that is messed up.

[bugster]

I am not much into Pixar stuff, but if they are getting crap for being good then that is messed up.

I think you need to read the whole thread

[piano632]

I think some of the other stories on that site are funnier, such as:

FCC CRACKS DOWN ON ANIMAL PLANET OBSCENITY
“Animals are like people. They should have the same rights,” says Waxler. “They should be covered up on TV. It’s humiliating for these poor creatures to be shown on TV with everything hanging out. Everybody has made such a big deal about Janet Jackson’s nipple. But just two months ago, Animal Planet showed 16 tits in one particular segment on cows. Where was the uproar then?”
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=243

TRUMP ATTEMPTS TO TRADEMARK BAD TOUPEE
“Mr. Trump’s embarrassing and painfully obvious toupee is part of what makes him ‘The Donald,’” his lawyer explained. “If anyone else over 50 appeared on TV with an absurdly reddish blond, ridiculously wispy toupee that looked laughably unbelievable, viewers are likely to get that person confused with my client.”
Trump’s filing was about to be approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office when it was challenged by attorneys representing “Star Trek” star William Shatner.
“Mr. Shatner has been using embarrassingly obvious and laughable toupees on television and in movies since long before Donald Trump became the quasi-celebrity he is today,” Shatner’s attorney said. “If anything, Donald Trump should be paying Bill Shatner royalties.”
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=169

TELEVANGELIST BENNY HINN TO HOST 'LAST FAITH HEALER STANDING'
“My special move is the kickout,” says Roland Perillo, a 28 year old faith healer from Houston, Texas. “I get a person whose legs are all messed up and need crutches to walk. After I do my healing, I kick those crutches right off the stage, and then it’s magic time.”
Perillo admits learning the maneuver has required some trial and error.
“To get into this faith healing business, you have to go to a lot of open mike nights,” says Perillo. “There have been quite a few times where I have done the kickout, and the cripple just hits the floor like a ton of bricks. I know it’s sad to see especially when I break the crutches into a thousand pieces, but I have to learn my craft somehow.”
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=287

WEATHER CHANNEL PLANS THREE HURRICANES FOR NOVEMBER SWEEPS
"We're talking about winds greater than 155 miles per hour," said forecaster Mark Darian on the air. "The storm surge higher than 18 feet. Very severe and extensive damage to windows and doors. Many people will die, most likely from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. weeknights."
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=66

CHARLIZE THERON HAILED FOR MAKING SELF UGLY IN 'MONSTER'
“I spent several weeks looking at tapes of the real Aileen Wuornos to understand her,” she explained. “I had to know how many wrinkles she had and how she handled having actual fat on her stomach. Then I remembered one time when I was 16 and I got a pimple and I held onto that thought, telling myself every day on set, ‘think ugly.’ Who knew I had it in me?”
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=135

[Matt D]

Funny, but the highest grossing movie ever came from Warner Bros. True, that's only one. The next few probably sucked.

Actually, Titanic is still #1 and that one was released by Paramount.

[gadgetguy]

Wait! I read it on the internet so it must be true.

[MOVIEGEEK]

I got it BJ_M.

[gll99]

I got it BJ_M.

5 days and many clues later
Give the man a cigar

Sorry MOVIEGEEK but I had to do it :P