Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” has become not only the highest-grossing film of 2024 but the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and a major success for Disney, Pixar and those involved. However, a new report at has gone into the film’s making with ten former employees alleging pressure to make the film a hit for the flailing studio which hadn’t had a major hit in years. The film’s success was apparently seen as a ‘live or die’ moment.
The employees reportedly claim they were ‘left hung out to dry’ after the studio shed 14% of its staff in May – rendering them ineligible to receive a bonus in the wake of the film’s success. Notably, it’s said no-one on the executive team was let go. One source says: “We work all year for that bonus.
That is what partially makes working at Pixar worth it...
we depend on that.” Pixar is reportedly outside union coverage with the base pay considered low for the area. Some were said to be doing seven days a week for the last two months and there were: “ridiculous amounts of production workers, just people being tossed into jobs they’d never really done before.
.. It was horrendous.
” It’s also alleged that there were a large amount of ‘last minute’ changes that required all sorts of tools to be developed on the fly. A senior executive at Pixar tells the outlet that crunch periods at the end of the film were “no different from those on many other films from the studio”. The article’s sources claim the .