Pixar hit by layoffs as a result of delayed “Good Dinosaur”

November 22, 2013
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Last month it was announced that Disney-Pixar would shutter its Vancouver studio resulting in 80 layoffs. Today it was announced that the Emeryville Studio would also be hit with layoffs as a result of the delay in its forthcoming “The Good Dinosaur” film which envisions an Earth where dinosaurs never became extinct. The film’s original director Bob Peterson was removed from the project back in August resulting in the delay. Peterson’s removal is the fourth time in eight movies that the Emeryville studio has made a director change midstream. His replacement has not been announced. An estimated 50-60 layoffs are expected according to “a source close to the studio”.


Pixar undergoes layoffs due to ‘The Good Dinosaur’ delay

By Daniel Miller
November 22, 2013, 11:22 a.m.
Pixar Animation Studios has laid off an undisclosed number of people at its Emeryville, Calif., headquarters due to the delay of its forthcoming film “The Good Dinosaur.”
The layoffs affect less than 5% of the company’s 1,200-person workforce, according to a source close to the studio.
In September, “The Good Dinosaur” was pushed back from its original release date of May 30, 2014, to Nov. 25, 2015.
About a month before the project was delayed, the studio, a unit of Walt Disney Studios, removed director Bob Peterson from the project.

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is a third generation Californian and East Bay native who lived in Emeryville from 2003 to 2021. Rob founded The E'ville Eye in 2011 after being robbed at gunpoint and lamenting the lack of local news coverage. Rob's "day job" is as a creative professional.

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