Half Billion Dollar Rat

No wonder Wall Street's so upset over Disney's Pixar purchase. Just look at the dreadful Ratatouille numbers...

For the frame of Oct. 19-21, Disney-Pixar's toon "Ratatouille" was the market leader, cooking up another $30.1 million from 4,377 runs in 34 markets for an international cume of $313.3 million. That included a solid U.K. soph sesh of $9.1 and a German soph sesh of $6 million.

The Rat movie: a half billion dollars and counting. Pixar: Seven films, seven money makers. Are any of us surprised Steve Jobs is close to going on welfare?

Oh, wait...