Commentary: Pixar builds winning streak

June 30, 2008 [...] Pixar Animation Studios has turned out nine winners in a row, the latest being "WALL-E," which opened during the weekend to $63.1 million and a collective chorus of critical hosannas. The conventional wisdom has long been that the Pixar wizards -- led by chief creative officer John Lasseter and president Ed Catmull -- simply put more care into crafting their stories than anyone else, and there's certainly truth to that. [...] a lot of other studios also spend years trying to get their scripts right, even if more often than not that means bringing on extra writers and second-guessing the whole process in an attempt to cover each and every bet.

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