Eisner's Report Card

Kevin Yee, a columnist at a website devoted to examining Disney, takes Eisner to task for his poor performance, especially for the Pixar fiasco:

The real story, in my opinion, is that relations were ever allowed to deteriorate so far. How did we get here? How did Disney, the number one movie studio for several years running, manage to ostracize Pixar, whose entire library of five movies never even risked box office disappointment? Somehow, the golden Pixar goose began to feel marginalized. This wasn’t just about money – it was about personalities. Roy Disney and Stan Gold have asserted that Eisner mismanaged Pixar, and they couldn’t be more right on this count. Pixar generated untold billions for Disney in theaters and through merchandising, yet Pixar came to the negotiating table unsatisfied with Disney’s treatment of them through the years.