J Lee
02-09-2005, 08:40 PM
This is coming at the mess that is the Walt Disney Corp. from more a a business nuts and bolts aspect than anything directly to do with what the company has squandered with its animation department over the past several years, but the Disney board is scheduled to meet on Thursday in Minneapolis to discuss Michael Eisner's long-awaited successor, and apparently to celebrate this, someone leaked a copy of the new book "DisneyWar" to the Los Angeles Times, which published a story Wednesday (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-disney7feb07,1,7632353.story?ctrack=1&cset=true) highlighting the studiio's disfunctionality.
Neither Eisner not Robert Iger, his No. 2 man, come off very good here, either towards each other or in the way they've run the studio. The Times' story contains no real discussioin of the animation division, but does mention one clash with Roy Disney, and I'm assuming the book itself does deal in some way with the studio's flushing of its 2-D animation department down the toilet.
The author of the book, James Stewart (no not that one), is a pretty high-powered reporter formerly with the Wall Street Journal, so unlike complaints on, say, your average animation web site or board, if his book blasts Eisner it's going to get major media play ... except on ABC, of course. :D
Neither Eisner not Robert Iger, his No. 2 man, come off very good here, either towards each other or in the way they've run the studio. The Times' story contains no real discussioin of the animation division, but does mention one clash with Roy Disney, and I'm assuming the book itself does deal in some way with the studio's flushing of its 2-D animation department down the toilet.
The author of the book, James Stewart (no not that one), is a pretty high-powered reporter formerly with the Wall Street Journal, so unlike complaints on, say, your average animation web site or board, if his book blasts Eisner it's going to get major media play ... except on ABC, of course. :D