Pixar Live!

Blue Sky Disney has an article about Pixar's plans to produce live action films with Bard Bird's earthquake movie 1906 and with Andrew Stanton's Princess of Mars. He brings up a good point that I'll take even further. A lot of people have questioned the growth of Disney's studio division as it is a hit driven business and it has a smaller and fixed slate of 10-12 movies a year. I have always said that if Walt Disney Animation could start doing Pixar numbers, it would be worth another $400-$600M just at the box office per year. But this is another growth engine. If Pixar branches out into live action with 1-2 new movies per year and those movies are blockbusters of $200M or more, that could be very significant. While its a little scary not to have Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton on animated movies, I think Lasseter is a genius for finding a way to keep these great storytellers in the fold and evolve Pixar to the next level...just as Walt Disney did.