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.
Disney CEO Robert Iger said Marvel's comic books, TV shows, movies and video games amounted to a treasure trove of content.. Iger said the deal would bring benefits like the ones Disney got from buying Toy Story creator Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion in stock in 2006.