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Skydance Succession: As David Ellison Sets His Team, Heads Are Rolling as Hollywood Finds Out Who’s Really in Charge
Skydance faces leadership changes, layoffs, and intense scrutiny over the status of Marvel 1943.
Layoffs
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Skydance announces layoffs to games division following $111bn merger
Skydance is cutting jobs in its games division a month after Paramount's $111bn Warner Bros. Discovery merger, as David Ellison reshapes the combined operation.
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Fortis Games closes down, affecting 440 jobs
Fortis Games, a mobile game studio fully owned by Las Vegas Sands, has shut down abruptly, putting over 400 employees out of work after the parent company ended funding.
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Tripwire Interactive lays off 36
Tripwire Interactive, the studio behind Killing Floor, has cut 36 staff in its second layoff round of 2026, bringing total cuts to 59 employees this year.
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Skydance Lays Off Games Workers One Month After Warner Brothers Acquisition
Skydance implements layoffs affecting games workers exactly one month following a Warner Brothers acquisition.
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Skydance Games Layoffs Hit Following Warner Bros. Merger
Skydance Games implements staff layoffs across its division following a massive merger transaction.
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Bay Area chain Johnny Doughnuts is closing half of its locations
Bay Area doughnut chain Johnny Doughnuts is closing three of its six locations and laying off 34 employees after co-founder Craig Blum acknowledged the company expanded too quickly.
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Skydance Starts Layoffs In Games Division After Warner Bros. Games Acquisition
Skydance begins cutting staff in its games division one month after completing its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Skydance Lays Off Game Developers Post-Warner Bros. Merger
Skydance has laid off at least 30 game developers, primarily from its existing teams, following its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.
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Canva Gives 'a Masterclass in How to Handle Layoffs'
Recent reporting examines how Canva managed a workforce reduction, earning praise for its approach to corporate restructuring.
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Canva to restructure operations, affecting 22% of workforce as growth slows
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Ultragenyx shrinks workforce and axes assets to halve R&D spend
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Ultragenyx Reports Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results, Announces Substantial Expense Reductions, and Reaffirms Profitability in 2027—Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical reports third-quarter 2026 results while announcing major workforce reductions and pipeline cuts to target profitability.
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Canva announces major job cuts after 'our hardest year yet'
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Canva CEO says a major reorganization will affect 22% of its workforce. Read the memo.
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Canva is announcing changes and layoffs affecting 22 percent of its staff
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Disney Expected to Lay Off Thousands of Staffers in Biggest Round of Cuts This Year
Disney is planning a massive new round of layoffs impacting thousands of employees as the company targets a twenty percent cost savings.
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Disney To Undergo More Layoffs With Divisions Eyeing Up To 20% In Cost Savings
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Disney Eyes Thousands of Layoffs, With Managers Asked to Cut 20%
Disney is planning thousands of layoffs across its organization, instructing managers to target a 20% reduction in costs.
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Citing 'challenging operating environment,' Alaska Airlines to lay off about 200 employees
Alaska Air Group announces workforce reductions totaling approximately 200 positions by year's end amid rising fuel costs.
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Hello Sunshine Lays Off Half Of Staff In Wake Of Acquisition By Reese Witherspoon And Mediawan
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine is reducing its workforce by 50% following a $900 million buyback involving Mediawan.
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"This company has been driven into a wall for years" - Life is Strange studio Don't Nod faces unrest while teetering on insolvency
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Scripps Layoffs Continue With 431 Cuts As CEO Promises 100 New Jobs in ‘Enterprise-Wide Transformation’
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Artiva to discontinue cell therapy after two patient deaths, cut workforce by 94%
Artiva Biotherapeutics is discontinuing its autoimmune cell therapy and cutting 94 percent of its staff following patient deaths.
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Scripps begins new round of layoffs impacting technical, news production roles
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Ghost of Yōtei Was a Hit But Its Studio Is Already Seeing Layoffs
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Netflix’s Ouster of Top Executives Capped Two Weeks of Turmoil
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Inside the Firings and Leadership Changes at Netflix
Netflix is undergoing significant leadership changes and workforce reductions amid reports of internal culture clashes and business uncertainty.
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‘Difficult but necessary’: Largest hospital system in Mass. announces more layoffs
Mass General Brigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, implements workforce reductions and cuts to its Home Hospital program.
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AmEx lifts 2026 profit forecast, plans to cut 5% of workforce
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American Express is cutting 5% of its workforce to 'prepare for AI'
American Express announces plans to reduce its global workforce by five percent while concurrently lifting its profit forecasts.
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Amex to Slash 5% of Headcount as CEO Seeks to Reduce Expenses
American Express plans to reduce its global workforce by five percent, according to multiple financial news outlets.
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Xbox's Official Shakeup Continues Through 2027 with New Rounds of Layoffs
Polygon.com reports that Xbox's official shakeup will continue through 2027 with new rounds of layoffs.
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Cannondale is closing Connecticut offices, moving to California
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EXCLUSIVE: EBay to lay off 9% of workforce in push to simplify operations, internal memo shows
EBay is cutting 9 percent of its workforce in a second round of layoffs this year to simplify operations.
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Netflix Aims Next Round of Layoffs at the Top
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Xbox CEO is reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs
Xbox faces impending job cuts as reporting outlines three upcoming layoff rounds starting this month.
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After A Year Of Layoffs, Disney Finds $180 Million For Recruits From Bankrupt Character.AI
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The non-gamer CEO racing to save Microsoft’s Xbox
Microsoft's Xbox faces potential survival challenges as non-gamer CEO Asha Sharma accelerates restructuring through layoffs and new IP strategies.
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Netflix Earnings Come After Layoffs, Questions About What's Next
Netflix faces a crucial earnings test following layoffs, subscriber concerns, and a massive market value decline.
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Netflix content, layoffs cause fund manager to sell shares before earnings
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Netflix Regime Change: Ruthless Cuts Set the Stage for a New Era at Streaming Giant
Netflix faces a regime change marked by sudden layoffs and firings as the streaming giant attempts to rewrite its narrative.
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Netflix Shocker: Bela Bajaria Leaving After 10 Years Amid Layoffs, Peter Rice to Replace as Chief Content Officer
Netflix replaces longtime content chief Bela Bajaria with former Disney executive Peter Rice amid widespread layoffs.
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The number of Americans filing for jobless aid remain at historically low levels below 200,000
US weekly jobless claims rise slightly to 199,000 but remain below the 200,000 threshold, keeping layoffs at historically low levels.
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Netflix Layoffs: Unscripted Casting & Development Execs Impacted
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Ubisoft plans cuts at German studios, adding to wave of workforce reductions
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Netflix TV Layoffs Include Director of Original Series Carolina Garcia, Who Exits After 10 Years
Netflix announces a workforce reduction of six percent, impacting television executives across multiple divisions.
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Universal Music Group Hit With Layoffs, Several Senior Execs to Leave Company
Universal Music Group launches a $270 million cost‑cutting wave, sparking layoffs and senior exits across Def Jam, Republic, Polydor and Interscope.
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Netflix to lay off 1,000 staff amid intensifying competition for user attention
Netflix announces plans to reduce its workforce by 1,000 employees as market competition intensifies.
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Netflix Lays Off 6% of Employees, Elimination About 1,000 Jobs in Biggest Cutbacks to Date
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Kroger to lay off thousands of corporate employees over the next three years
Kroger announces a three‑year plan to cut 3,000 corporate jobs as it accelerates artificial‑intelligence integration.
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Gears Of War Boss Dodges Question About Future Layoffs, Promises Next Game Will Come Sooner
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State of Decay studio boss says he was ‘irresponsibly transparent’ to staff to make layoffs easier to take
The studio boss behind State of Decay reflects on internal transparency regarding staff layoffs.
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The bad — and unexpected good
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Ninja Theory begins laying off staff, according to employee posts
Ninja Theory has reportedly begun laying off staff members, a development revealed through employee posts on social media.
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Senua At Risk Of Cancellation As Ninja Theory Employees Announce They've Left The Studio
The future of the Senua series is uncertain as Microsoft's Ninja Theory faces major job cuts amid broader corporate layoffs.
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Middletown packaging plant set to close; dozens of layoffs planned
Packaging Corp. of America is permanently closing its Middletown facility, resulting in the layoff of 91 employees.
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Disney cuts 300 jobs and major overhaul puts hundreds more at risk
Disney implements a round of layoffs cutting 300 jobs alongside a major corporate overhaul placing hundreds of additional roles at risk.
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Disney is restructuring its TV operations around streaming, with hundreds of jobs at stake
Disney is restructuring its television operations to prioritize streaming, resulting in hundreds of job cuts and executive retirement offers.
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Foghorn lays off 40% of employees as Lilly cancer collab collapses over poor data
Foghorn Therapeutics cuts 40% of staff after Eli Lilly ends a cancer collaboration due to poor data.