He's the voice of the adult Simba in the animated hit, "The Lion King."

A bright spot in the quarter for DreamWorks was the better-than-expected sales of consumer products for its recent animated hit "Madagascar."

The company first hit paydirt by getting a license for "The Little Mermaid," the 1989 release that was Disney's biggest animated hit in years.

Jobs went on to buy Pixar, the company behind some of the biggest animated hits in cinema history including Toy Story, Cars and Finding Nemo.

DreamWorks used Linux in making "Shrek," an animated hit last year.

Produced more quickly and cheaply for video than they would be for the big screen, sequels to even the biggest animated hits often bypass theaters.

Disney is the most accomplished of the moratorium users, having resorted to the device for all its big animated hits, but other studios also employ it.

For that, the movie became an animated hit.

The DVD version of the animated hit "A Bug's Life" was the first-ever all-digital video transfer.

The company is still debating whether product tie-ins, Disney's huge profit machine driven by animated hits, are appropriate for "Prince of Egypt."