BALICK, PH.D., Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology Curator Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden For more. For quick questions email [email protected]. Note: the DSS lab is open as long as Firestone is open, no appointments. History of Sex in Cinema: The Greatest and Most Influential Sexual Films and Scenes (Illustrated) 1986. US Vice-President Joe Biden has attacked 'the gathering forces of racism' in America and Australia. Mr Biden, who arrives in Australia on Saturday for a four-day. The studio has earned twenty- seven Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes and three Grammy Awards, along with many other awards and acknowledgements. Pixar began in 1. Graphics Group, part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before it was acquired by Apple Computer co- founder Steve Jobs in 1. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2. Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney. It was followed by A Bug's Life in 1. Toy Story 2 in 1. Monsters, Inc. As of December 2. In addition, all of the films produced by Pixar are among the top 5. Finding Nemo (#2. Toy Story 3 (#1. 2) all in the top 5. Up and Toy Story 3 are two of only three animated films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The award was granted by Lucasfilm founder George Lucas. Ed Catmull from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), where he was in charge of the Computer Graphics Lab (CGL). At NYIT, the researchers pioneered many of the CG foundation techniques—in particular the invention of the . After years of research, and key milestones in films such as the Genesis Effect in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the Stained Glass Knight in Young Sherlock Holmes, the group, which numbered about 4. Feb 1. 98. 6 by Steve Jobs shortly after he left Apple Computer. George Mikes How to Be a Brit 1986 by naeem. BOOKS HOW TO BE A BRIT George Mikes was born in 1912 in Siklos, Hungary. Miami Vice stars Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as undercover detectives. Watch Seasons 1-4 of the classic 80s crime series free on NBC.com. Donald Trump’s presidential transition has virtually stopped while the president-elect’s team haggles with the White House over the paperwork required to. Jobs paid $5 million to George Lucas and put $5 million as capital into the company. The newly independent company was headed by Jobs, who served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pixar. Edwin Catmull served as Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Alvy Ray Smith as Executive Vice President and Director. In 2. 00. 1, Edwin Catmull was named President of Pixar. One of the buyers of Pixar Image Computers was Disney Studios, which was using the device as part of their secretive CAPS project, using the machine and custom software to migrate the laborious ink and paint part of the 2- D animation process to a more automated and thus efficient method. The Image Computer never sold well. In a bid to drive sales of the system, Pixar employee John Lasseter—who had long been creating short demonstration animations, such as Luxo Jr., to show off the device's capabilities—premiered his creations at SIGGRAPH, the computer graphics industry's largest convention, to great fanfare. Early successes included campaigns for Tropicana, Listerine, Life Savers and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In April 1. 99. 0 Jobs sold Pixar's hardware division, including all proprietary hardware technology and imaging software, to Vicom Systems, and transferred 1. Pixar's approximate 1. In 1. 99. 1, after a tough start of the year when about 3. Chuck Kolstad), which reduced the total number of employees to just 4. Pixar made a $2. 6 million deal with Disney to produce three 3. D computer- animated feature films, the first of which was Toy Story. At that point, the software programmers, who were doing Render. Man and CAPS, and Lasseter’s animation department, who made television commercials and a few shorts for Sesame Street, was all that was left of Pixar. Even as late as 1. Jobs contemplated selling Pixar to other companies, among them Microsoft. Only after confirming that Disney would distribute Toy Story for the 1. The film went on to gross more than $3. Later that year, Pixar held its initial public offering on November 2. US$2. 2 per share. Originally intended as a straight- to- video release (and thus not part of Pixar's three- picture deal), the film was eventually upgraded to a theatrical release during production. Pixar demanded that the film then is counted toward the three- picture agreement, but Disney refused. Pixar's first five feature films have collectively grossed more than $2. Pixar was responsible for creation and production, while Disney handled marketing and distribution. Profits and production costs were split 5. Disney exclusively owned all story and sequel rights and also collected a distribution fee. The lack of story and sequel rights was perhaps the most onerous aspect to Pixar and set the stage for a contentious relationship. Pixar movies like Pixie Dust is just to show that Pixar movies make sense again and people will buy it. The new deal would be only for distribution, as Pixar intended to control production and own the resulting film properties themselves. The company also wanted to finance their films on their own and collect 1. Disney only the 1. More importantly, as part of any distribution agreement with Disney, Pixar demanded control over films already in production under their old agreement, including The Incredibles and Cars. Disney considered these conditions unacceptable, but Pixar would not concede. They broke down completely in mid- 2. Jobs declaring that Pixar was actively seeking partners other than Disney. Pixar did not enter negotiations with other distributors. After a lengthy hiatus, negotiations between the two companies resumed following the departure of Eisner from Disney in September 2. This would also allow Pixar to release DVDs for their major releases during the Christmas shopping season. An added benefit of delaying Cars was to extend the time frame remaining on the Pixar- Disney contract to see how things would play out between the two companies. Unlike the earlier Pixar/Disney deal used for the earlier films, this one has the following caveats. Pixar is responsible for 1. Following Pixar shareholder approval, the acquisition was completed May 5, 2. The transaction catapulted Steve Jobs, who was the majority shareholder of Pixar with 5. Disney's largest individual shareholder with 7% and a new seat on its board of directors. Jobs' new Disney holdings exceeded holdings belonging to ex- CEO Michael Eisner, the previous top shareholder, who still held 1. Disney Director Emeritus Roy E. Disney, who held almost 1% of the corporation's shares. Pixar shareholders received 2. Disney common stock for each share of Pixar common stock redeemed. Catmull retained his position as President of Pixar, while also becoming President of Walt Disney Animation Studios, reporting to Bob Iger and Dick Cook, chairman of Walt Disney Studio Entertainment. Steve Jobs' position as Pixar's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer was also removed, and instead, he took a place on the Disney board of directors. In fact, additional conditions were laid out as part of the deal to ensure that Pixar remained a separate entity, a concern that analysts had expressed about the Disney deal. Some of those conditions were that Pixar HR policies would remain intact, including the lack of employment contracts. Also, the Pixar name was guaranteed to continue, and the studio would remain in its current Emeryville, California location with the . Finally, branding of films made post- merger would be . In this new position, Morris is in charge of the day- to- day running of the studio facilities and products. This includes Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Brad Bird, Bob Peterson, Brenda Chapman, Lee Unkrich and Gary Rydstrom. This committee will consist of Catmull, Lasseter, Jobs, Iger, Cook, and Tom Staggs. They will meet at Pixar headquarters at least once every two months. The roughly 2,0. 00 square meters studio is primarily producing shorts and TV specials based on characters from Pixar's feature films. The studio's first production was the Cars Toons episode, . A large number of animators that make up the animation department at Pixar were hired around the time Pixar released A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2. Although Toy Story was a successful film, it was Pixar's only feature film at the time. The majority of the animation industry was, and is still located in Los Angeles, California, while Pixar is located 3. San Francisco Bay Area. Also, traditional 2- D animation was still the dominant medium for feature animated films. For those who had traditional animation skills, the Pixar animation software (Marionette) is designed so that traditional animators would require a minimum amount of training before becoming productive. At the core, Lasseter said, . Brave, Pixar's 1. Kelly Macdonald). By the MPAA, most of the films are rated G, while four of them are rated PG (The Incredibles, Up, Brave, Inside Out, and The Good Dinosaur). However, the G- Rated Cars 2 contains violence and rude humor, which was a controversy in 2. Also, except for Cars 2, their films have had positive reviews, with 1. Cars, Brave, Monsters University and The Good Dinosaur) being above 9. Rotten Tomatoes. Also, Cars 2 made $1. USA on a $2. 00 million budget. Feeling the material was not very good, John Lasseter convinced the Pixar team to start from scratch and make that their third full- length feature film. Toy Story 3 was the second big- screen sequel when it was released on June 1. Cars 2, the studio's third theatrical sequel, was released on June 2. On June 2. 7, 2. 01. Tom Hanks implied that a fourth Toy Story movie was in the works, and in 2. Toy Story 4 was announced for a June 1. Following the release of Toy Story 2, Pixar and Disney had a gentlemen's agreement that Disney would not make any sequels without Pixar's involvement, despite their right to do so. In 2. 00. 4, after Pixar announced they were unable to agree on a new deal, Disney announced that they would go ahead with sequels to Pixar's films with or without Pixar. Toy Story 3 was put into pre- production at the new CGI division of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Circle 7 Animation. However, in May 2. Toy Story 3 was back in pre- production, under Pixar's control when a new plot had been conceived. Cars 2, Pixar's first sequel not based on Toy Story, was officially announced on April 8, 2. Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters, Inc. However, on April 5, 2. June 2. 1, 2. 01. Pixar films that are released in the summer, according to Disney distribution executive Chuck Viane. Cars was expanded to television via Cars Toons, a series of shorts (three to five minutes) running between regular Disney Channel shows and featuring Mater (the tow truck voiced by comedian Larry the Cable Guy). Brad Bird about the 1. San Francisco earthquake, is currently in development.
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