Cartoon Artist Job Moves

By Jack May 5, 2000 11:37 AM

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Brad Bird, the animator responsible for last year's critically acclaimed The Iron Giant, has signed with Pixar studios to work on an unnamed film that the studio plans to release in 2004.? The Weinstein brothers, Bob and Harvey have signed a new, seven-year contract with Disney, well in advance of the expiration of their current seven-year deal, signed in 1996.?After seeing a veritable exodus of executives from the studio, today's Wall Street Journal indicated, the new deal with the Weinsteins "gives Disney the rare opportunity to crow about executive retention."

Well it's not all good news...?In a surprise announcement, Gilles Pelisson, the head of Euro Disney, said late Thursday that he is quitting to join the French utilities conglomerate Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux.?Today's (Friday) Wall Street Journal quoted Gilles Raffort, an ING Barings analyst in Paris as saying, "I was quite asonished (by the departure).?...?For me, it represents the fact that they aren't seen as an autonomous group.?Euro Disney is seen as a group that cannot evolve independently and where managers cannot receive recognition."

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