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Disney-Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter was FIRED by Disney in the early-1980s after pitching a computer-animated film about forgotten appliances at a summer cabin waiting for their owner to return. He was so ashamed that he didn't admit what happened to even his wife for over 20 years

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Justin Berfield, better know as Reese from Malcolm in the Middle, is now the Chief Creative Officer of Virgin Produced, Virgin's production company

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1. In 1984 John Lasseter, the director of Toy Story, was fired as an animator from Disney for promoting computer animation. 22 years later he became the Chief Creative Officer of Disney when Steve Jobs sold Pixar to Disney.

2. The lamp that introduces Pixar films has a name, Luxo Jr. The name is based off the Luxo brand lamp of Pixar’s chief creative writer John Lasseter. Luxo even sued Disney because of this.

3. In 2015, Nick Cannon (Rapper & Actor) was named Chief Creative Officer of RadioShack.

4. Before becoming a Riverdale writer and Archie Comics chief creative officer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa wrote a 2003 theatre play about Archie coming out if the closet and was served a cease & desist order

5. Justin Berfield, Reese from Malcolm in the Middle, co-founded Virgin Produced in 2010 and is currently Chief Creative Officer of the Division.

6. John Knoll, the co-creator of Adobe Photoshop is also the Chief Creative Officer at Industrial Light and Magic and has won / been nominated for 6 Oscars as part of the I.L.M VFX team.

7. Disney was working on direct-to-video sequels to Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, the Aristocats and a spin-off of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer, he immediatly cancelled all the productions.

8. At only 26 years old, Cooper Hefner was Chief Creative Officer at Playboy Enterprises, founder and former CEO of upstart media company HOP, and a member of the California State Military Reserve

9. Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada said he "had found the perfect guy” to play Matt Murdock a full two years before the rights to Daredevil returned to Marvel, that guy was Charlie Cox.

10. John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer at Pixar, wore a kilt to the premiere of Brave (2012)