Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor you one step shop when it comes to animation news and commentary

I'm Drew's co-host entertainment writer Jim Hill and he and I are recording the show on Friday, February 12th, 2020

A crazy week for news for an animation drew on it with obviously the big story being that Disney's decision to shutter

Blue Sky Studios coming in April the week that 450 people

Learn that they're losing their jobs at an animation studio

Maybe not the best time to run the inside-out Pixar feature that that talks about how that animation studio has its own dedicated pastry chef

Or for that matter. There's a facility manager who whatever duties is to help set up the elaborate indoor miniature golf tournament

They that they hold every couple of years. Yeah, yeah, you know, just not the right time right

All right, anyway, let's start with the news that officially broke like five minutes ago the my little pony headed to Netflix. Oh

What what version of my little this is so recent that I don't even know about this Jim this happened like five minutes ago

I evidently this was the version that was supposed to release to theaters

But an entertainment one of which is producing the film sold off the rights in Netflix

It's another one of those situations where

Distribution rights for China. We were held back out of the deal

But it's supposed to land on Netflix later this year. This was also another former paramount title

Well, yes, yes, you know, and read hastings the chief executive officer at at Netflix as has flat-out said

That he's looking to challenge is the for domination in animation and

We've got coming later this year. Mitchell versus the machines, which they who do they buy that one from now?

It's from Sony as well wish wish dragon was from Sony also

Yeah, and previously we've had close but they also the willow bees which we just found out is shortlisted for the animated Academy award

Did you see that note? I say that SpongeBob is no longer on the list

I wanted to talk about that. In fact, we will get to that in a sec and at the same time look at the people

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