Pixar Animation Studios is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
History
The company was acquired from Lucasfilm on February 3, 1986 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs. The company was sold in 2006 in exchange for $7.4 billion in Disney stock, making Jobs the single largest shareholder in The Walt Disney Company.[1]
Apple references
Many of Pixar's Academy Award-winning or nominated films have made obvious references to Apple, the company that Pixar CEO Steve Jobs had also co-founded.[2]
- Monsters, Inc. (2001): Mike Wazowski holds up a magazine with an ad on the back cover that reads "Scare Different".
- Cars (2006): Apple sponsors a racer named "Mac iCar".
- WALL-E (2008): The EVE robot is designed to look like an Apple product and WALL-E sounds like a Mac when he is booting.
- Cars 3 (2017): Apple sponsors an unnamed Apple Racer and "J.P. Drive".
- Coco (2017): A clerk in the Land of the Dead is using a Macintosh 128K computer.
Videos
References
- ↑ Pixar: Complete Guide — History, Products, Founding and More, History-Computer. 2022-11-16.
- ↑ The 5 most obvious Apple references in Pixar films by Amanda Luz Henning Santiago, Mashable. 2018-08-05.
External links
- Pixar Animation Studios official website
- Pixar Animation Studios and Apple Inc. at the Pixar Wiki.
- Pixar at Wikipedia
