Tom McGheeSummit, NJ, United States
Jan 25, 2024

I'm not sure if I ever will win this petition. I haven't gotten much signatures, especially affection and support. I feel that perhaps a Disney Movie from around 2003 with a box office hit or something like that may have helped Disney purchase the Muppets from The Jim Henson Company. I mean in 2005 Chicken Little became a box office hit, even though it's not that great. And it seemed Disney didn't have great box office hits, unlike other successful movie studios like DreamWorks and Pixar, before Disney acquired Pixar in the 2000s And the movie actually helped Disney acquire Pixar in the following year 2006. According to wiki, At the time of the release of Chicken Little, the co-production deal between Disney and Pixar was set to expire with the release of Cars in 2006. The result of the contentious negotiations between Disney and Pixar was viewed to depend heavily on how Chicken Little performed at the box office. If successful, the film would have given Disney leverage in its negotiations for a new contract to distribute Pixar's films. A failure would have allowed Pixar to argue that Disney could not produce CGI films.

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