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As Disney pushes towards streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024 (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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As Disney pushes towards streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024::Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. While sources at the company

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[–] Ilflish@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I really do think Elemental was quite good, The advertising was really god awful. It was a movie about cultural and societal boundaries and prejudice, not about a opposites attract romance.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

But Disney marketing is deadly afraid of being perceived as having some political affiliation. Despite the fact that they will bend over backwards for China, and the whole kerfuffle with Florida. Deep down it's a movie about migrants, and that is a hot topic. This unfortunately kneecapped both the writing and the marketing. That movie could've been so much more and be a giant hit, but all that creative potential was squandered to protect the bottom line.

[–] EntropyPure@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, read online before watching it and how it bombed on its initial weekends. Honestly? I don’t get the hate. It was an enjoyable movie with interesting topic at heart. But those topics were not in the marketing, only the romance bit. Shame, but glad word of mouth kinda saved the box office run.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Really? I might have to give it a shot then

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe people are just tired of movies about race, sexual preferences and gender plastered everywhere without context and just want to see an interesting story. It used to be like that with movies like toy story, the first couple, and monsters inc.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

People LOVE movies about sexual preferences and gender. Rom-Coms are incredibly popular and that's literally all they're about