Fox Executives on How Disney Layoffs Have Shaken the Studio:

The telephones have stopped ringing. The hustle and bustle of the lot that launched greater than a dozen motion pictures final yr is gone. This is the overall feeling former and present Fox workers have within the wake of main layoffs since Disney’s acquisition of Fox in March.

With the exception of Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula’s art-house division Fox Searchlight, which continues to each launch and produce new motion pictures, work on the common Fox movie lot has floor to a near-standstill, in accordance with half a dozen present and former Fox executives. No new movies have been greenlit for the reason that merger and plenty of movies which have already been shot have been shuffled to releases in 2020 and past.

For these executives who nonetheless present as much as the lot in Century City, the place workplace corridors are more and more empty, the environment will be unsettling. “I see ghosts everywhere,” one senior Fox government nonetheless employed on the studio stated. “I have survivor’s guilt.”

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“It’s very quiet,” a senior Fox government who lately was laid off stated. “There hasn’t been a greenlit film for the reason that acquisition, so it leaves folks…