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Source: VentureBeat

Nov 03, 2009

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Intuit completes buyout of Mint.com – CEO Alan Patzer will suck it up and shift from CEO to vice president and general manager of Intuit’s personal finance group, which also includes Quicken products.

Yes, Disney’s new film is a hand-drawn musical – “I’ve never understood why the studios were saying people don’t want to see hand-drawn animation. What people don’t want to watch is a bad movie,” Pixar co-founder John Lasseter told the Wall Street Journal. He’s got high hopes, high-apple-pie-in-the-sky hopes for Disney’s new hand-animated feature, The Princess and the Frog:

Production costs for films animated by hand or by computer tend to be comparable. The decision to use nearly photorealistic computer imagery, instead of the more impressionistic traditional technique, is mostly a matter of aesthetic calculations. Executives involved in making “Princess” say it cost slightly less than its original budget, which they declined to disclose. Others in the industry estimated the film’s cost at around $150 million, a bit less than last year’s “Monsters vs. Aliens,” by

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