by - snwbrdpax (Tue May 30 2006 22:08:19 )

Actually, the story goes as follows

While Steve Jobs was trying to find a distributor for Pixar's movies (back in the early 1990s), we visited with several Disney chairpeople, including Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg. As part of the contract Jobs signed before Toy Story, he signed over rights to sequels and the 6 consequent movies after Toy Story (Bug's Life, TS2, Monster's, Nemo, Incredibles, and Cars). Then, as part of the contract, Lasseter and Co. were forced to green-light future production ideas. Some of which included:

1. A movie about ants
2. A movie about monsters
3. A movie about fish
4. A movie about cars
5. A movie about rats

When Katzenberg was fired from Disney in 1994, he began a production company with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, named, surprise surprise, Dreamworks SKG. They immediately began production on a movie called Small Soldiers, and released it a few weeks before Toy Story 2 in 1998. Since then, it has been jumping Pixar's releases of its movies by a few weeks or more, the exception being Shark Tale.