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Walt Disney Furloughs Hit Film Studio, Distribution Will Be Hardest Hit

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By Jill Goldsmith Furloughs that Walt Disney announced last week in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic have begun to cycle through the film studios, we have learned.

Disney, hammered by a complete loss of revenue from its shuttered theme parks and with film and TV production stalled, said it would furlough all staff  whose work was not immediately necessary starting on April 19.

The furloughs started in the parks division but as Deadline reported will be working through the rest of the conglom. At the studio, we have learned that distribution will be first and hardest hit.

Disney’s statement from April 2 (see below) didn’t specify the number of employees to be furloughed. The conglomerate had 223,000 employees worldwide as of its

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