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.
Also listed are the Walt Disney Company's studio holdings, which have grown since the company's inception to include Pixar Animation, Marvel, Disney Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, Disneynature and Touchstone Pictures. Other divisions of the company include Disney on Ice and Disney on Broadway.