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>About 1,000 people are facing layoffs at Disney—with Marvel Studios reportedly facing big cuts that include almost wiping out its visual development team.
>As Disney prepares to woo movie theater owners and press at its CinemaCon panel this Thursday, new CEO Josh D’Amaro sent an email to employees announcing a sweeping wave of layoffs across all of Disney’s divisions. As the dust still begins to settle, it seems one area that has been hit hard is Marvel Studios.
>Deadline reports that Disney’s layoffs, anticipated to have cut around 1,000 jobs across the company, have led to a roughly 8% reduction in staff at Marvel. While these layoffs are broadly impacting each area of Marvel at both of its offices in New York and Burbank—running the gamut of cuts to its comics publisher, to Marvel Studios, to legal and financial departments, and more—one area reportedly hit significantly by layoffs is one of Marvel Studios’ most enduring teams: its visual development team.
>Initially reported by Forbes and backed up by Deadline—as members of the team began confirming lost jobs on social media—it’s believed that almost the entirety of the visual development team has been laid off, leaving a skeleton crew that will now oversee the hiring of outside contractors on a per-project basis. Sources speaking to Forbes alleged that the particular reasons for the visual development team’s reduction are in part due to Marvel’s own changes to its upcoming production slate, as well as the cost-cutting impacts of the broader round of layoffs at Disney this week.
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>Headed by creative director Ryan Meinerding, the concept artist whose work has helped shape the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s vision since the first Iron Man movie, the visual development team has been responsible for decades of concept art and design work across Marvel Studios’ cinematic history. Their work even goes beyond behind-the-scenes concepts: the visual development team’s work has been packaged into artbook after artbook (Meinerding even has his own dedicated one).
>When Marvel reveals first looks at its adaptations of its legendary superheroes, it is more often than not through the work of the visual development team, which are then plastered across internet articles, across posters at events, on merchandise, and more. Even perhaps the most iconic version of the opening logo sequence that opens the studios’ movies (tweaked beginning with last year’s Captain America: Brave New World to offer more individually stylized ones) puts the concept work of the visual development team front and center, iconic concept art of Marvel’s heroes blurring with script lines before giving way to the studio’s logo forming.
>In a memo to staff earlier this week confirming the layoffs, D’Amaro described the cuts as a reflection not on the work of the laid-off workers but on “our continual evaluation of how to more effectively manage our resources and reinvest in our businesses.” How effectively managing the reported gutting of a team that helped shape one of the biggest cinematic universes in modern moviemaking will go remains to be seen.
https://gizmodo.com/disney-layoffs-marvel-cuts-visual-development-2000 746765
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Not for much longer I wager I reckon more Layoffs will be incming soon.
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let's not to be harsh shall we lets not forget marvel was once pretty good. who knows maybe these layoffs are for the best.
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>Three Editors At Marvel Comics Laid Off, As Well As Comms Director
>Marvel Comics undergoes layoffs, impacting three editors and the Communications Director.
Senior editors Lauren Bisom, Devin Lewis, and Darren Shan are among those let go this week.
Timothy Cheng, Marvel's Executive Director of Communications, is also leaving after years with Marvel.
Layoffs follow wider Disney reorganization, affecting multiple longtime Marvel team members.
>This morning, I posted that I had heard that David Gabriel, Senior Vice-President, Print, Sales & Marketing at Marvel Publishing Worldwide, had been laid off as part of the Disney reorganisation that has seen layoffs for over a thousand people. I later confirmed that, but he is not alone in the Marvel Entertainment group who publish the comics. I have heard four other figures in Marvel Comics editorial and marketing are also being let go. They are:
Timothy Cheng, Executive Director of Communications at Marvel Studios for almost three years, and at Marvel Entertainment in Communications for almost six years before that, rising to Executive Director of Communications. Before that he worked in Communications at General Electric. And someone I spoke to all the time. It was very weird not to speak to him about this.
Lauren Bisom, Senior Editor at Marvel Entertainment, who has been at Marvel for over six years. And has been working on the Marvel Kids line, Marvel Zombies and Strange Tales. Was previously Associate Editor at DC Comics, Editor at Henry Holt, Associate Editor at Parragon and Editorial Assistant at Simon and Schuster, over the last fourteen years.
Devin Lewis, Editor at Marvel Entertainment, and has been working on titles such as Moon Knight, Daredevil, 1776, Spirits Of Violence, Morbius and Punisher. Has been there for thirteen years and interned there for over two years before that as well.
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Darren Shan, Editor at Marvel Entertainment, who has been there for over ten-and-a-half years, and has been working on X-Men titles such as X-Men Outback, Moonstar, Magik and Colossus, Bishop, What If, Cyclops, X-Men 97, Psylocke, Jubilee, and the Age of Revelation titles. Also, was at DC Comics for over seven-and-a-half years before that, as Associate Editor and Publishing Operations Coordinator.
Name links go to their LinkedIn pages in case you have anything to offer them, or wish to share commiserations. As one Marvel source said, these are "the evils of being part of a massive entertainment conglomerate, who only worry about stock value."
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/three-editors-at-marvel-comics-laid-of f-as-well-as-comms-director/
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WHY IS IT NEVER BREVOORT OR LOWE!?
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