{"id":19313,"date":"2009-12-14T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=19313"},"modified":"2009-12-14T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:46:55","slug":"imagi-cuts-25-of-its-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/imagi-cuts-25-of-its-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagi Cuts 25% of its Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/brand.gif\" alt=\"brand\" title=\"brand\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/brand.gif 200w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/brand-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imagi creative director Felix Ip has <a href=\"http:\/\/felixip.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/storm.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that Hong Kong based animation studio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagi.com.hk\/web\/main.php\" target=\"_blank\">Imagi<\/a> (TMNT, Astro Boy) laid off over 100 of its 400 employees last Friday. Imagi&#8217;s 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astroboy-themovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astro Boy<\/a> motion picture reportedly cost $60-$65 million USD to make and has so far earned roughly $20 million in international release.<\/p>\n<p><i>Our best wishes go out to both the freshly unemployed and the surviving Imagi studio.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-12-14\/100-out-of-400-laid-off-at-cg-astro-boy-imagi-studio\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagi creative director Felix Ip has confirmed that Hong Kong based animation studio Imagi (TMNT, Astro Boy) laid off over 100 of its 400 employees last Friday. Imagi&#8217;s 2009 Astro Boy motion picture reportedly cost $60-$65 million USD to make and has so far earned roughly $20 million in international release. Our best wishes go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19315,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions\/19315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}