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Drawing from hundreds of conversations with Steve Jobs over a quarter century of reporting, the journalist who knew him best reconsiders his legacy- and the importance of his "wilderness years." If Steve Jobs's life were staged as an Qpera, it would be a tragedy in three acts.

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Pixar's new film pays tribute to Steve Jobs in its closing credits, calling Apple's late co-founder a mentor and a friend.

Pixar Animation Studios' Brave tells the story of a young Scottish girl seeking to discover her own destiny, and features eerie characters called will-o'-the-wisps. During the end credits of an unfinished version of the film, those creatures appear onscreen around Jobs' name, who is praised as a mentor and a friend, The Wall Street Journal reports.

When Steve Jobs passed away in March 2012, he left behind an impressive curriculum vitae of creative ventures and business decisions.

Digital Domain Media Group has been the source of a tense battle between two longstanding camps: speculators and value-seekers. My advice to value-seekers: It's okay to speculate.

According to Zap2It , the new Simpsons outing stars Maggie, the youngest Simpson, in a short entitled The Longest Daycare .

Five students were named valedictorians at the 133rd Abilene High School commencement exercise Saturday.

Pixar animator Andrew Gordon has created a short film revealing a secret room at the Pixar that saw visits from Steve Jobs Pixar animator Andrew Gordon has created a short film revealing a secret room at the Pixar that saw visits from Steve Jobs as well as "big Hollywood stars", "famous musicians", "world famous photographers", and "sports stars".

Mythbusters' Tested Blog recently posted a special feature from the Toy Story 2 DVD , in which Pixar's Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman recounted how the files for the movie were almost lost due to both an erroneous Linux command and a bad backup.

Disney spearheading a possible record-setting summer at box office In one of Hollywood's more spectacular reversals in recent box office history, Disney went from whipping boy to record-setting hero in a matter of weeks by pegging its fortunes to "brand" projects.

CinemaCon 2012 took place at Caesars Palace from Monday, April 23 to Thursday, April 26.

Animator Andrew Gordon plays host to Steve Jobs and "Toy Story" director and Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter in the "secret" room.

Also in Saturday's Cannes related news round up, actress Isabella Rossellini gets a new festival jury gig, Lincoln Center teams with Dubai to spotlight Arab cinema, and two groups join for a $150 million equity fund for indie filmmakers.

In 2010, Illumination Entertainment gave us Despicable Me , a film that deserves a place on our DVD shelves alongside the likes of Toy Story and Lion King.

Work on Pixar's Toy Story 2 nearly came to an abrupt end when files started being deleted accidentally.

Nearly three years ago, Disney fans and comic book geeks alike did double takes as they looked at the latest news: Disney bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.

Aaron Sorkin once declined an offer from Steve Jobs to write a movie for animation house Pixar, saying he couldn't pen dialogue for inanimate objects.

Back when Toy Story 2 was being made in the late 90s, though, the Unix-based nature of the machines Pixar uses for their animation almost led to the complete destruction of the film when an employee accidentally used the "rm *" command on the machine the film was being stored on.

Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman, Toy Story 2 's associate technical director and supervising technical director, respectively, recount the harrowing tale of how they almost had to redo the entire movie after someone accidentally deleted most of the animation files from the studio's Linux and Unix machines, but were saved at the last minute by a newborn ... (more)