Darkbeer
11-02-2002, 02:09 PM
Disney Animation Chief to Step Down (http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney2nov02.story) - Los Angeles Times, 11/2/02
QuikQuote: The president of Walt Disney Co.'s bedrock animation division will be leaving his job in June after a tenure in which the operation's successes have been overshadowed by deep layoffs and spotty box-office numbers.
But during his nearly four years at the helm, he also oversaw such big-ticket disappointments as "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" and "Emperor's New Groove." Disney -- long the market leader in animation -- has lost ground to rivals in recent years, especially DreamWorks SKG, the company headed by former Disney Studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg that produced last summer's hit "Shrek."
merlinjones
11-02-2002, 05:09 PM
Another one melted! Go, Dorothy... GO!!!
Just say NO to David Stainton or Sharon Morrill, though... we need real animation people back in those jobs!!!
Morrigoon
11-02-2002, 07:07 PM
Mary Poppins the stage show??? Woohoo! Count me IN!
merlinjones
11-04-2002, 07:40 AM
The public humiliation of Disney's Marie Antoinette continues:
hollywood reporter:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=91&ncid=91&e=6&u=/bpihw/20021104/en_bpihw/high_noon_for_top_dis_toon_man
reuters/variety (two):
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=599&ncid=802&e=2&u=/nm/20021104/media_nm/industry_disney_dc
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021103/media_nm/disney_2
Darkbeer
11-04-2002, 10:10 AM
And here is the latest from JimHillMedia.com, as reported in the Hollywood Reporter article.
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/newarticles/singles/michelle.htm
One thing you will find out, someone was right:p
Do you think he was implying that Michelle was right? I mean, it was kind of subtle.... :D :D :D
Where is that lady, I want to give her a high five. :D
JeffG
11-06-2002, 11:17 AM
Of course, the thing is that the article really >wasn't< right about one of the most important points. There is no indication that Schumacher was fired and, in fact, the official announcement pretty emphatically stated that the decision to step down was voluntary.
Admittedly, we really have no way of knowing whether he truly decided on his own to move on or if his voluntary departure was really a face-saving arrangement. Either way, though, there is still a big difference between what actually is happening and the suggestion that he was secretly fired.
-Jeff
merlinjones
11-06-2002, 11:19 AM
If anyone has ever deserved to be fired it's him.
A shame he wasted his natural talent, wit and intelligence on megalomaniacal mindplay and elitist, fear-based power games. By his own admission, he hates animation and cartoonists.
As one wag put it... a combination of Caligula, Marie Antoinette and Margaret Drysdale.