Posted on 05/25/2024 11:39:30 AM PDT by george76
Pixar Animation Studios is laying off about 14% of its workforce, or around 175 employees.
The cuts are part of Disney CEO Bob Iger’s overarching mandate to focus on the quality of its content, not the quantity.
Pixar will refocus on theatrical releases and move away from short-form series for Disney+.
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Pixar will lay off about 175 employees, or around 14% of the studio’s workforce
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Layoffs hit other Disney businesses last year, but Pixar’s cuts were delayed because of production schedules
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Iger, who returned to the mantle of CEO in late 2022, has been working to reverse the company’s box office woes, spurred both by the company’s content decisions and pandemic shutdowns. While Disney has seen mixed box office success with several franchises, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the company has found it challenging to get its animated features to resonate with audiences.
When theaters closed during the pandemic, Disney sought to pad the company’s fledgling streaming service Disney+ with content, stretching its creative teams thin and sending theatrical movies straight to digital.
The decision trained parents to seek out new Disney titles on streaming, not theaters, even when Disney opted to return its films to the big screen. Compounding Disney’s woes, many audience members began to feel that the company’s content had grown overly existential and too concerned with social issues beyond the reach of children.
As a result, no Disney animated feature from Pixar or Walt Disney Animation has generated more than $480 million at the global box office since 2019. For comparison, just before the pandemic, “Coco” generated $796 million globally,
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Pixar had a good track record for kids movies for a long time but they really fell apart in recent years and the budgets are insane
How is that wokeness working out? Wokeness/Brokeness ..... Bwahaha.
the content is too concerned with social issues?? Issues which are not age appropriate for children?
Interesting observation, if Disney would take it to heart.
learn to code, mofos
By their actions it appears they would rather go out of business than go back to making family-friendly non-woke content.
So I guess everything is proceeding on schedule.
Just make sure you start with the real talent you have on the staff and also make sure you don’t fire any of the Diversity hires mkay Disney?
None of the political activists involved in the writing, casting, and direction are in the least reluctant to proclaim that social activism is what they’re doing and entertainment comes in a distant second. You could start by firing them first, and then the DEI staffers who hired them. None of them will be missed.
In the 80’s/90’s, the ruling class had the media, Hollywood, the music and fashion industries, as well as the universities, all pushing the Gay rights narrative, but with a certain level of restraint, in order to appear less extreme and threatening.
At the same time, the politicians, government agencies, corporations, public schools, sports leagues, and churches were instructed to keep their distance from the Gay rights stuff, in order to give the appearance of neutrality.
But over the better part of the last 10 years, all of the latter institutions have joined the former institutions in going full bore on the most extreme elements of the LGBT movement. Particularly transgenderism..... A word that literally was not part of anyone’s vocabulary 20 years ago, and was invented by ivy league academics, at the behest of their wealthy benefactors.
All of this was planned in advance, with the intention of rolling it all out incrementally, as they patiently waited for more and more socially conservative geezers to die off, and for more and more young people to be indoctrinated.
And it was always the wealthy and powerful who were behind it all. Anyone who thinks that the LGBT movement was started by a bunch of disgruntled homosexuals in Greenwich Village, and that it’s only become so popular because everybody else eventually got pressured into pandering to it, are completely missing the plot.
The wealthiest most powerful people in the Western ruling class are God hating Satanists. They have spent well over 100 years pushing secularism and the worship of science and technology to the masses. Slowly and incrementally pushing us away from religion and family, and towards both libidinous hedonism and a childish fascination with stupid frivolous modern gadgets....which in the process of making our lives easier, also make us softer, lazier, and dumber.
We now live in the new theocracy of Baphomet. And the most frustrating thing is how most people who opposed to this, are, nevertheless, still willing to debate issues like transgenderism within the narrow parameters set by the ruling class.
We hear lame arguments from the likes of Riley Gaines, such as “be whoever you want to be...identify as a woman, if that makes you happy... but it’s unfair for athletes with physical advantages to compete against women”.
Instead the argument, should be pretty much everything that I mentioned above in the first five paragraphs of this post. But unfortunately, even the smart ones among us are only interested in a little bit of politics to go with their morning coffee. And lack both the curiosity and the courage to peel back the layers of the rotted onion.
And a big part of that is the fact that they still believe the myth of America and the Anglosphere being the “leader of the free world”. When we have actually allowed our demonic ruling class to turn us into the Great Satan.
"I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?"
Great idea, maybe we'll get to enjoy them getting fired again when their unrepentant entitled attitudes encourages employers to replace them with AI.
“All of this was planned in advance, with the intention of rolling it all out incrementally, as they patiently waited for more and more socially conservative geezers to die off, and for more and more young people to be indoctrinated.”
Communists always play the long game. Drop by drop.
SURE SEEMS AS THO NONE OF THESE LAYOFFS ARE SHOWING UP IN THE BIDEN UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS
AI + going woke = learn to mine coal.
The Woke cannot fix anything as they do not quite audit reality.
They’re just going to be replaced with AI anyway.
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