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2024, and Drew, it was six weeks ago today on May 21st that there was also such a gloom of doom coming out of Emeryville.

Pixar President Jim Morris confirmed a 14% layoff at the animation studio with 175 people being let go.

Kind of a contrast to the news coming out of Emoryville this week right? Yeah I mean for some yes

absolutely the movie crossed a billion dollars it's the first movie to do so

since Barbie last year and the only movie to do so in

2024 thus far although I think we're going to talk about another potential billion dollar

buster in a minute.

There we are.

Yeah, so, you know, I think that, you know,

there is obviously a lot of elation coming out of Emoryville

as well as you know it's putting aside fears that

Pixar has lost their touch it's putting aside fears that nobody is going

to the movies but I have to think about those animators who worked on the movie and were laid off and are thusly not eligible for the bonuses and other incentive programs that usually come along when a movie reaches a threshold like this.

So, you know.

It's a little bit of a bummer.

And you know, so many of those people came from Blue Sky too, which I didn't know until someone told me recently.

So to get laid off twice in the last few years, yeah.

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