"It doesn't surprise me," Steve Hulett, who sits on the board of the Animation Guild, a labor union for animators, said by phone. "And it's unlikelythat this film came in so far under budget. There are enormous subsidies available in Canada. The taxpayers are very generous there."
Date: Aug 16, 2016
Category: Entertainment
Source: Google
DreamWorks Animation's box-office flops may result in 400 job cuts
"The reason they are struggling is their business model, for better or worse, is built around each picture performing and if a picture doesn't perform they have to look at staffing and ways to cut," said Steve Hulett, business representative for the Animation Guild, which represents about 800 unioni
The troubled entertainment studio, which has been hit with a string of box-office disappointments, began letting go workers last week, said Steve Hulett, a business representative at the local Animation Guild who was contacted by laid-off animators and development artists.
Steve Hulett, a representative of The Animators Guild, said "we've received calls from DreamWorks Animation employees who are getting laid off, and have told us that others are getting laid off as well."
"A lot of people are anxious," said Steve Hulett, a business agent for the Animation Guild, who said his estimate was based on conversations with supervisors at the studio. "Some people have worked there 10 years and they don't have any idea if they're going to be laid off."