Toy Story 3: Out for Blood
Don't let those cute characters fool you. Behind the scenes, Disney and Pixar are battling over who gets how much from the latest sequel
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By Ron Grover
Even allowing for Hollywood's current woes (See BW Online, 9/28/01, "On with the Show? Not These Days"), you might think that Walt Disney's relationship with Pixar, the northern California film studio that turned out such computer-generated gems as the two Toy Story movies and A Bug's Life, would be giving the Mouse Factory reason to cheer. On Nov. 2, Disney will release Pixar's latest film, Monsters, Inc., which stars the voices of Billy Crystal and John Goodman as some friendly monsters that hide in kids' closets.