A week after layoffs during Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm was strike this week with pinkish slips of a own. More than dual dozen staff members were laid off, we have learned. The cuts came essentially in a company’s financing, chartering and placement groups and were not all together unexpected. In an email to employees progressing this month, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy pronounced all  poignant classification changes during association would be finished by a finish of April. Sources tell me that this latest turn of cuts is reputed to be a final as Lucasfilm entirely integrates into a new owners Disney, that bought a Star Wars creators for $4.05 billion in October. The cuts come after LucasArts, a company’s video diversion division, shut down prolongation Apr 3 and laid off about 150 employees. There were also layoffs in Lucasfilm’s animation dialect after Disney said Mar 11 that it was discontinuing prolongation of Star Wars: The Clone Wars for Cartoon Network and pursing “ a new instruction in charcterised programming.”

About 150 employees in several groups of Disney Studios were let go final week after a association inner examination systematic late final year by CEO Bob Iger and CFO Jay Rasulo to brand remaining positions and boost efficiency.

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