Disney Cuts Director Of “Lightyear” After It Was A Box Office Failure
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Disney’s Toy Story prequel bombed at the box office,
It earned $226 million on a budget of $200 million.
Many criticized Disney over the film at the time calling it woke.
It bombed. It earnt $US226 million from a reported budget of $US200 million. With marketing costs and cinemas’ cut, that’s a huge loss for Pixar.
In an interview with The Wrap, Pixar boss Pete Docter has provided insight into what went wrong with the Toy Story sort-of-prequel.
“We’ve done a lot of soul-searching about that because we all love the movie,” Docter said. “I think probably what we’ve ended on in terms of what went wrong is that we asked too much of the audience.”
The director of that film has been fired.
Walt Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios has cut 75 jobs, including two executives behind Lightyear, a woke revisionist take on a beloved Toy Story character that ended up being a box-office failure.
Sources told Reuters of the job cuts on Saturday, which mark the first major job eliminations at the legendary studio in ten years.
Lightyear director Angus MacLane had worked at Pixar as an animator for 26 years. He was part of the senior creative team on films like Toy Story 4 and Coco. Lightyear producer Galyn Susman had been at Pixar since the release of the original Toy Story film in 1995, according to Reuters’ sources.
Additionally, Michael Agulnek, Pixar’s vice president of worldwide publicity since 2015, was also laid off, the report said.
Disney is in trouble.
