Mouse buys Lamp: Disney pays $7.4B for Pixar
by Doc on Jan.25, 2006, under General News
It’s official. Disney will pay $7.4 billion to buy Pixar, making Steve Jobs a board member and its largest individual shareholder. Given that every Pixar-produced movie has been a blockbuster, with Finding Nemo hitting $865 million worldwide, this seems to make sense…but was it too much? The combined gross of he first 6 Pixar movies was only $3.2 billion…