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The milestone contract marks the first time that production management workers at a feature animation studio have gained representation through The Animation Guild.
The studio also announced that it was cancelling an unannounced direct-to-streaming feature-length film.
Half of the top ten highest-grossing films at the global box office in 2024 were animated.
‘Moana 2’ has surpassed the debut of ‘Frozen 2’ to become the storied animation studio’s biggest launch ever.
Not that it matters, but critics didn’t like ‘Moana 2.’
Bouchiba continued getting jobs at major studios like Pixar and Dreamworks even after being added to France’s national sex offender registry in 2014.
Investigators say that up to a thousand children were abused at his request.
Looking more closely at important animation news that happened this week.
Lee will remain at the studio to work on the ‘Frozen’ franchise.
The segment was created in honor of Donald Duck’s 90th birthday.
Disney legend Mark Henn was also honored at Annecy today.
The film is being produced between Disney’s animation studios in Burbank and Vancouver.
He also says that his last feature at the studio, ‘Moana,’ was “a very difficult project.”
‘Wish’ made over $250 million at the global box office, but it wasn’t enough to turn a profit.
The decision to swing back to sequels is part of the company’s decision to “reduce output and focus more on quality.”
The film marks the directorial debut of David G. Derrick, a story artist on the first film.
“It wasn’t what I signed up for,” Henn said of his last few years at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Henn was supervisor of five female leads: Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Mulan, and Tiana.
The post-Thanksgiving moviegoing weekend is a slow one, but for Disney’s latest, it was even slower than usual.
This is the first time that remote workers have attempted to unionize with TAG, and the organization hopes others will join them.