About Pixar

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Pixar Profile

"Pixar is a digital animation studio with the creative, technical and production capabilities to create a new generation of animated feature films and related products. The Company's objective is to create, develop and produce computer-animated feature films with a three-dimensional appearance. Since its inception, the Company has created and produced four full-length animated feature films, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc., which were marketed and distributed by The Walt Disney Company." - Yahoo! Finance Pixar entered into an agreement with Disney to co-finance, co-own, co-brand and share equally in the profits of five computer-animted feature-length films. Disney is in charge of the marketing and the distributing of the films. Only two films of this agreement have been completed as of now: A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. Toy Story was part of their first agreement for three films, but that contract was ended with the current contract. Toy Story 2 was not included as part of the five movie contract either. Pixar has made many important breakthroughs in process of applying computer graphics in filmmaking. They have created three proprietory software systems . "Marionette™ is an animation software system for modeling, animating and lighting. Ringmaster™ is a production management software system for scheduling, coordinating and tracking a computer animation project. RenderMan® is a rendering software system for high-quality, photo-realistic image synthesis that Pixar uses internally and licenses to third parties." - Pixar

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Financial Data

"For the year 2002, revenues totaled $201.7 million, up from $70.2 million in 2001 and net income totaled $90 million, up from $36.2 million in 2001. Revenues reflect an increase in film and animation services revenues. Net income was partially offset by an increase in Research and Development expenses due to higher employee related costs." - Yahoo! Finance

Number of Employees: 648 Ticker Symbol: PIXR  Stock Exchange: NASDAQ Current stock price, stock chart, and current market cap  Link to SEC 10-K from 2001 (.PDF file)

Pixar is doing very well financially. However, due to the economic status of the United States, Pixar's stock is down a little from their twelve month high of approximately $60 which was in December. An upturn could be expected after the release of Finding Nemo in May 2003.

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History

Timeline of Pixar's History

Click here to view the extensive list of awards Pixar has won for its many accomplishments

Click here to view the History section of the Official Pixar Website  

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Pixar Executives

 

Execs	Age	Office	Salary for 2001	Stuff About Them
Steven Jobs	47	Chairman & Chief Executive Officer(CEO)	$52... Yes, only $52. Mr. Jobs owns 30 million shares of the company & chose to have no salary, but he receives $1/week to still be an employee.	Co-founder of Pixar Chairman since March 1991 CEO since February 1986 Director of Pixar since February 1986 Chief Executive Officer On Board of Directors of Apple Computer Co-founder of NeXT Software, Inc. Chairman and CEO of NeXT 1985-1997 Chief Executive Officer at Apple Director of Gap, Inc. since Sept 1999.
Edwin Catmull	57	President & Director	$498,088	Co-founder of Pixar Promoted to President in 2001 Chief Technical Officer of Pixar VP of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm Key developer of RenderMan® Won an Oscar for Pixar’s RenderMan® Won the Coons Award
Ann Mather	41	Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer	$416,074	Executive Vice President since 1999 Chief Financial Officer since 1999 Secretary of Pixar since October 1999 Worked at Walt Disney from 1992 to 1999 European Controller for Alico from 1991 to 1992 Paramount Pictures from 1984 to 1988
John Lasseter	45	Executive Vice President & Creative Development	$2,122,694 plus a $5,000,000 bonus for 2002	Two-time Academy Award winning director Two-time Academy Award winning animator Head of all of Pixar’s films and projects Executive Vice President of Creative Development Directed Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2 Executive producer of Monsters, Inc. Special Achievement Oscar® for Toy Story
Sarah McArthur	45	Executive Vice President & Production	$419,246	Promoted to Executive VP & Production in 1999 VP of Production for Disney from 1989 to 1997 Was Director of Production in 1991 for Disney Promoted to VP of Production in 1994 for Disney Worked at the Mark Taper Forum on Production

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Pixar will release Finding Nemo May 30th, 2003. They are currently working on The Incredibles due out sometime in 2004 and Cars set to be released in 2005. There is possibility that Pixar will begin working with a different company after the contract with Disney ends. They have been talking to other companies, but nothing has been made certain as of now. - Yahoo! Finance

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Key Competitors

ILM Rhythm & Hues/VIFX Tippett Studios Sony Pictures Imageworks	DreamWorks SKG Lucasfilm Ltd. Disney Studios Warner Bros. Sony Pictures Entertainment Fox Entertainment Group Inc. Paramount Pictures Universal Studios, Inc. MGM/UA
		Digital Domain Avid Technologies SGI and Alias Research, Inc. MentalImage GMD

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Recent news stories 

Feb 07,2003 - Pixar takes dive as sector retreats

Feb 07, 2003 - Pixar's Next Move

Feb 7, 2003 Pixar Holding Film Distribution Talks

Feb 06, 2003 Pixar in talks with studios that rival Disney-paper

Feb 03, 2003 - Canal+ Secures Broadcasting Rights to Five Disney and Disney/Pixar Animated Features

Jan 07, 2003 - THQ To Develop Two Titles for Mac/IBM PC Based on Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo

Links to news sites: The Street.com Motley Fool Reuters CBS Marketwatch Pixar Hoover's

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Links 

Toy Story	A Bug's Life	Toy Story 2	Monsters, Inc.	Finding Nemo
Pixar's award winning short films	Geri's Game	For the Birds	Adventures of Andre and Wally B.	Tin Toy
	Knick Knack	Red's Dream	Luxo Jr.

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March 1, 2003
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