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(Chicken Little, which was pretty successful, but to the movie fan wasn&#8217;t on-par with Pixar&#8217;s films.) <\/p>\n<p>On the 24th, Disney issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/c.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcorporate.disney.go.com%2Fnews%2Fcorporate%2F2006%2F2006_0124_pixar.html&#038;t=1138288502\">press release<\/a> that they were aquiring Pixar for $7.4 Billion, and that Pixar CEO, Steve Jobs will join the Disney Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>More info can be found on the MacRumors site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/pages\/2006\/01\/20060124171802.shtml\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, Pixar &#8211; a company originally started by Lucasfilm (they created the &#8220;Pixar&#8221; computer for 3D animation) and then sold to Steve Jobs, has been responsible for the most successful computer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":168,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=168","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":0},"title":"Tron 2 is on its Way!","author":"Matt","date":"August 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Quicktime Movie (Right click -> Save As) At this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Disney presented a Tron 2 trailer to everyone's surprise. 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