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Due to the pandemic, the film industry was one of the hardest hit and, to this day, it is still on the mend.
Recently, it was announced that Disney will lay off some seven thousand employees from its workforce, adding to the list of companies that are in crisis.
‘Toy Story’ it grossed approximately $365.2 million and managed to stay in theaters for 37 weeks.
In the midst of a major crisis, Disney confirmed the launch of titles such as ‘Toy Story 5’, ‘Frozen 3’ and ‘Zootopia 2’, some of the company’s most popular films.
2023 arrived with bad news for a large number of companies that, in recent weeks, have begun to lay off thousands of employees.
At first, it seemed that this crisis would affect only the technology industry. Until the first days of January, according to data from layoffs.fyithere are already around 20 thousand layoffs in the technology sector, worldwidea figure that, little by little, approaches more than 50,000 layoffs in a single month, which occurred in November 2022.
Now, as part of this crisis at the beginning of the year, Disney is another of the companies that have joined the long list of companies that are laying off their employees.
According to what has been released, the firm announced that it would eliminate seven thousand jobs from its workforce worldwide. In the words of the company’s CEO, Bob Iger: “While this is necessary to address the challenges we face today, I do not take this decision lightly. I have tremendous respect and appreciation for the talent and dedication of our employees around the world, and I am aware of the personal impact of these changes,” he said.
As of today, it is already Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Microsoft, among others, that have made the headlines regarding the dismissal of their employees, a complex moment as part of the effects derived from Covid-19.
Disney, in crisis, confirms ‘Toy Story 5’ and other titles
In the midst of the crisis, today, Disney has announced that it is already developing new titles for the future, at a time when the film industry is changing considerably after a period of great losses.
Under this context, Preliminary data from the National Chamber of the Film Industry (Canacine) reveal that, during 2022, there were 165 million tickets sold85 more than the tickets sold in 2021 (89 million), although this figure is still below the 232 million tickets sold in 2019.
Now, following the recovery curve, Disney announced that it is working on titles such as ‘Zootopia 2’, ‘Frozen 3’ and, yes, ‘Toy Story 5’. At the moment, no more information has been released, although the news came from the voice of the CEO of the company.
Undoubtedly, one of the most anticipated films will be the new installment of ‘Toy Story’this being one of the largest and most successful sagas of the company. IMDB Data reveal that this was the first computer-animated feature film, which became a huge box office success, grossing approximately $365.2 million and running for 37 weeks.
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