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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Jul 21, 2026 8:38am PT Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

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Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster “Toy Story 5,” was hit particularly hard in a wave of companywide layoffs Tuesday at Disney.

A Disney spokesperson confirmed that the media conglomerate is cutting several hundred jobs across certain corporate functions. Those include job cuts at ESPN, many related to the integration of NFL Network; Disney Entertainment Television; and Disney’s studios. The majority of the layoffs on the studios side are within Pixar and majority of impacts in the TV group are at National Geographic.

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