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AMERICAN MORNING

'Minding Your Business'

Aired January 30, 2004 - 07:23   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: They were able to find Nemo, but they just could not find common ground, apparently. What happens now between Pixar and Disney?
Andy Serwer is off today. He's got himself a nice long weekend.

Susan Lisovicz here minding everybody's business.

What gives here, huh?

This is a relationship that appears quite strained, to the point of broken.

SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's an ugly Hollywood break- up and it's not Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez for a change. The relationship between Walt Disney and Pixar has been nothing short of extraordinary. For 13 years, these two companies have collaborated and they've had, well, just look -- "Finding Nemo," last year's box office blockbuster, in fact, the most successful film of last year because you remember "Lord of the Rings" came out late last year.

But if you look at the box office successes over more than a decade, well, there was something called "Monsters," "Inc.," -- oh, that was a monster, too, at the box office.

HEMMER: Yes.

LISOVICZ: "Toy Story 2," "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life."

Well, what's happened is they've been so successful, not surprisingly, they've been arguing over money. Pixar wanted more. They've been negotiating and finally a real shock reportedly is that Pixar and Steve Jobs said un-nnh and that is bad news for Michael Eisner of Walt Disney for a whole lot of reasons.

HEMMER: What does Jobs do? What does Pixar do? They go out and they shop it for other companies that want to pick up their brand, obviously?

LISOVICZ: Sure. And there would be interested parties with its track record, including, reportedly, our own studio unit, Warner Brothers, as well as News Corp.'s Fox.

HEMMER: All right, thanks, Susan.

Good to have you here, by the way.

LISOVICZ: Likewise.

HEMMER: "Finding Nemo," a great film.

LISOVICZ: A great film.

HEMMER: Marlin, coral, lopped up.

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