Print and broadcast media have explored Ozark culture broadly. Books set in the Ozarks include Where the Red Fern Grows, The Shepherd of the Hills and As a Friend. The 1999 film Ride with the Devil, based on the book Woe to Live On, depicts warfare in Southwest Missouri during the Civil War.
The late story artist Joe Ranft is named a Disney Legend. The Walt Disney Company announces that it has agreed to purchase Pixar Animation Studios. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter also assume leadership of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
The Walt Disney Company (Disney) is a media and entertainment conglomerate that includes Disney/ABC Television Group and ESPN Inc., Walt Disney Studios, Disney Resorts and Parks, Disney Consumer Products, and Disney Interactive.he company produces movies through Walt Disney Studios, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, and Miramax; owns television interests including ABC, the Disney Channel and ESPN; [and] runs dozens of local television and radio stations.. Disney previously owned a baseball team, the Anaheim Angels.