{"id":553598,"date":"2026-07-22T06:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/553598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:54:17","slug":"pixar-hit-hard-in-latest-round-of-disney-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/553598\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar Hit Hard in Latest Round of Disney Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n The studio behind Disney’s biggest summer hit is also absorbing some of its harshest cuts. Despite Toy Story 5 closing in on $1 billion at the box office and poised to become the franchise’s top earner, Pixar is taking the brunt of a new round of layoffs across Disney’s film division, with most of its cuts hitting production and operations roles, Variety<\/a> reports. Deadline<\/a> reports that the Pixar cuts are in the “high single percentile,” which works out to around 100 of Pixar’s 1,100 staff. \n <\/p>\n


\n A Disney spokesperson said several hundred jobs are also being eliminated across corporate units including ESPN. National Geographic is seeing many of the TV-side reductions. Employees were notified Tuesday, the latest trimming after Disney eliminated about 1,000 marketing positions<\/a> in April. At that time, CEO Josh D’Amaro told staff the company was reshaping operations to be leaner and more tech-focused. \n <\/p>\n


\n Sources tell Variety that the Pixar cuts reflect a shift in production volume and the current slate, as Disney narrows its output and leans harder into theatrical releases that can later bolster streaming. Sequels like Toy Story 5 and Inside Out 2 have done well but Pixar’s original films have had a tougher run post-pandemic, a challenge executives partly attribute to sending titles like Soul, Luca, and Turning Red straight to Disney+ during COVID. Deadline notes, however, that Hoppers took in close to $400 million worldwide earlier this year, well ahead of The Mandalorian and Grogu from Disney’s Lucasfilm subsidiary. It took in around $344 million, making it the least successful release in the Star Wars franchise. \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The studio behind Disney’s biggest summer hit is also absorbing some of its harshest cuts. Despite Toy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4550,146,85,46,4980,397,13490,251260,26318],"class_list":["post-553598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-layoffs","tag-movies","tag-national-geographic","tag-nfl-network","tag-pixar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}