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Canal+ Secures Broadcasting Rights to Five Disney and Disney/Pixar Animated Features

Canal+ has signed an agreement with The Walt Disney Company (France) for the exclusive broadcast of five animated feature films.

This exclusive agreement will allow Canal+ to offer to its subscribers over the next four years the exclusive broadcast of five recent classic animated features - two from Walt Disney Pictures and three from Walt Disney Pictures /Pixar Animation Studios:

Pocahontas, a Native American legend by Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
(made by Walt Disney Pictures)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
(made by Walt Disney Pictures)

A Bug's Life directed by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
A Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Animation Studios film

Toy Story directed by John Lasseter
A Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Animation Studios film

Toy Story 2 directed by John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
A Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Animation Studios film

Canal+ is therefore the only French terrestrial TV channel able to offer exclusively to its subscribers these five animated feature films, benefiting from the know-how of the prestigious Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios.

These five films will also benefit from receiving their first broadcast on a French terrestrial television channel.

Canal+, the film channel, broadcasts 400 films each year of which 320 are exclusive premieres, that is to say on average 30 French or international films per month as exclusive premieres.

About Buena Vista International Television

Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV) is the distribution arm of Walt Disney Television International. Founded in the 1980s, BVI-TV is a leading distributor of quality branded and non-branded programming to both free and pay television and currently licenses around 18,000 hours of Disney programming to over 960 clients in 120 countries.

About Pixar Animation Studios

Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR, http://www.pixar.com) combines creative and technical artistry to create original stories in the medium of computer animation. In partnership with Disney, Pixar has created four of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Academy Award^®-winning Toy Story (1995); A Bug's Life (1998); Golden Globe-winner Toy Story 2 (1999); and the Academy Award^®-winning Monsters, Inc. (2001). Pixar's four films have earned more than $1.7 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The Northern California studios' next three film releases are Finding Nemo (summer 2003), The Incredibles (holiday 2004) and Cars (holiday 2005).