Posted on 07/22/2026 11:15:20 AM PDT by DFG
The Walt Disney Company has unleashed a fresh bloodbath across its entertainment empire, with Pixar taking a major hit despite the blockbuster success of “Toy Story 5.”
The “Mouse House” announced several hundred layoffs Tuesday in its third round of cuts this year, affecting Disney Entertainment Television, ESPN, corporate divisions and Disney Studios, according to SFist.
Pixar’s Emeryville animation studio was hit hardest within the film division. Disney has not confirmed how many Pixar workers lost their jobs, but a source told TheWrap that roughly 116 employees were laid off.
Many of the Pixar cuts were concentrated in production and operations and reflected the studio’s current slate of projects rather than any single movie’s performance.
“These changes are part of our continual evaluation of how we manage resources and reinvest across the company as our industry continues to evolve,” a Disney spokesperson told the outlet.
The latest cuts come despite “Toy Story 5” delivering a massive box office debut after hitting theaters June 19.
The recent installment in the animated franchise raked in an estimated $312 million worldwide during its opening weekend, including a franchise-record $160 million domestically.
Pixar’s recent original movies, however, have produced more mixed results at the box office.
“Elio” posted the weakest opening weekend in the studio’s history, while “Hoppers” earned stronger reviews and better ticket sales but still fell short of Pixar’s established franchises’ commercial success.
The Emeryville studio has already endured repeated rounds of job cuts.
Pixar eliminated about 175 employees, or roughly 14% of its workforce, in 2024 after cutting another 75 positions the previous year as Disney shifted away from prioritizing streaming content and refocused on theatrical releases.
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“In other words, it’s a giant shit sandwich and we’re all going to have to take a bite”
LT. Lockhart, Full Metal Jacket
AIDS tainted blood bath
seriously? layoff of 116 employees out of 231,000 global employees is a “bloodbath”?
Disney Corp has way more money than common sense, so their woke nonsense, both in their movies and at the theme parks, will continue indefinitely.
Layoffs and consolidation are badly needed.
Disney has roughly $47.36 billion in debt. It’s acquisitions of Hulu ($8.61 billion in 2025), 20th Century ($71.3 billion in 2019), Lucasfilm ($4.05 billion in 2012), and Marvel (about $4 billion in 2009) led to an increase in their debt.
https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/DIS/balance-sheet/total-debt
I feel sad for the people who lost their jobs.
Everyone is cutting. :(
My company cut over 600 jobs a few weeks ago and is consolidating operations. It will likely happen again next year.
It’s the economy stupid to borrow a phrase.
And in other news, sales of blue hair dye, nose rings, “My Pronouns” buttons and “The Force is Female” and “Male and Pale is Stale” t-shirts at the Disney employee store plunged.
Unless the mustachioed guy working as a princess is sh!tcanned this is not enough.
I’m sure they’ll just bring in another batch of low-paid, cheating, stinky H1-Bs to replace the Americans. It’s the Disney Way.
They should have stuck with always worked in the past instead of this woke and political correctness rubbish.
Did they fire all their worthless loathsome leftists - or did they fire the productive employees?
Exactly.
At all.
I’m hoping the former but I’m going to guess the later unfortunately.
Or hang drywall.
Well, the House Of Mouse has only their poor business decisions to blame for this predicament.
How true.
Hopefully beyond the point of no return.
That or AI tainted. Don't need teams of artists anymore when you can just have one guy give prompts instead.
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