Disney Establishes Core Production Overseas?
REUTERS.COM: Disney to make animated films in Japan, paper saysWed Mar 5, 2008 6:41pm EST
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co. plans to make animated films in Japan to cater to Asian tastes, as it moves core production outside the United States for the first time, a business daily reported on Thursday.
Disney would team up with Toei Animation and other Japanese studios to tap talent and computer graphics technology, the Nikkei newspaper said.
A short animated film about a robot had already been made with Toei and was due to be aired in May, with two other projects in the works, the paper said.
While Disney sought partners it did not plan acquisitions at this point, it added.
(Reporting by Edwina Gibbs; Editing by Rodney Joyce)
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Disney's had a lot of satellite production houses in other countries before, so I'm assuming 'core production' is the key phrase here. Even so, is it true that Disney's never made a feature completely outside of Burbank? I think so, but with all of those other studios in the '90s, it makes me less certain.
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Thanx. You made my day many times over. Heck, I liked your stuff so much, I'm going to paint a pigeon into the boat picture i'm painting....
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yeah. Maybe I better just get back to that.
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Hmm, somehow, I suppose some ONE or some small team in Burbank was involved in the various satellite productions -- from Florida to France and from Australia to Point Richmond (in Pixar's early days).
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I posted the painting, if you want to see it.
I checked it out. Nice! Thanks for the shout-out.
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