The kiss was reportedly cut and later restored after staff released an open letter criticizing Disney for its response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity at certain grade levels. The film was banned in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries for including a brief kiss between two female characters. It was the first Pixar movie since the pandemic began to open only in theaters, but audiences were used to being able to stream Pixar movies at home on Disney+. After its box office bomb, Pixar did “a lot of soul-searching,” Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter told the Wrap. “Lightyear” grossed $226 million worldwide against a $200 million budget and was the lowest-grossing movie for a pre-existing Pixar character during opening weekend. The moment became so renowned in Pixar history that the studio made a short about it. Susman had been with the studio since at least 1995, when another Pixar employee reportedly accidentally deleted the files from the box office hit “Toy Story 2.” Susman saved the day: She had a backup copy of the film while working on it from home on maternity leave. MacLane had been an animator with the studio for 26 years, working up to his solo directorial debut with “Lightyear.” MacLane and Susman were longtime Pixar employees. Pixar did not immediately respond to The Chronicle’s request for comment. While relatively small compared with the Walt Disney Co.-owned studio’s employee base of about 1,200 people, the layoffs are the first significant cuts for Pixar in a decade. Pixar laid off 30 people in 2013 after delaying the release of “The Good Dinosaur” until 2015 and letting go of director Bob Peterson, according to Reuters. Michael Agulnek, Pixar’s vice president of worldwide publicity since 2015, was also laid off, Reuters reported.
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