Disney has laid off hundreds of employees, with staff at Pixar particularly affected alongside cuts to the company's Disney Studios and Television divisions and corporate functions. A spokesperson described the move as part of "continual evaluation" of resource management, but reports link the Pixar cuts to the studio's inconsistent box office performance in recent years, especially with original, non-franchise films.

The exact number of job losses has not been confirmed, though the cuts are said to be Pixar's largest since 2024, when around 175 staff (14% of the workforce) were let go amid a Disney+ content slowdown. The latest layoffs are reportedly linked in part to Hoppers, which took $389.5 million globally against a $150 million budget, narrowly missing profitability, following 2025's Elio, which posted Pixar's lowest-ever opening weekend. This comes despite Toy Story 5 nearing a billion dollars at the box office, reinforcing a pattern in which Pixar's franchise films succeed while original stories struggle financially, prompting the studio to seek more affordable production costs for future original projects.