Film Production
Green Gold’s golden Mumbai launch
MUMBAI: Green Gold Animation is all set to hit the green running with its new offshoot Golden Robot. The Rajiv Chilaka-run animation outfit has been wowing everyone with its deals for animation series with both Netflix and Amazon Prime.
But the occasion this time was the celebration of the launch of Golden Robot’s new Mumbai studio in Mumbai’s Goregaon West area’s DLH Park (which also has the presence of Red Chillies’ VFX facilities) earlier this week.
Spread over some 10,000 sq feet, Golden Robot is Chilaka’s third animation initiative. Its purpose: to capture more outsourced work from international studios. While Green Gold will house the original IP creating arm – churning out episodes of Chhota Bheem, Mighty Raju, and many others, Golden Robot will be producing episodes for large American and European studios.
The whos who of the animation industry made it a point to attend the launch party which was cheered on by Golden Robot’s 250 or more employees. Among those who came to congratulate Rajiv, Srinivas, and Samir Jain included Nick boss Anu Sikka, Sony Pictures Networks India vice-president programming Ronojoy Chakraborty, Amazon Prime’s Manish Menghani and Abhishek Goradia, Bioscopewalla Pictures’ Nishit Takia and AnimationXpress.com’s Anil Wanvari.
They all came in to wish the team luck, and of course a golden pot for Golden Robot.
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Film Production
Disney to cut 1,000 jobs under new chief executive
The entertainment giant’s freshly installed boss inherits a restructuring already in motion, with marketing and corporate roles bearing the brunt
CALIFORNIA: Walt Disney is preparing to slash up to 1,000 jobs in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, as the entertainment giant’s freshly installed chief executive moves swiftly to trim fat and tighten the ship.
The cuts, less than 1 per cent of Disney’s global workforce of 231,000, will fall hardest on marketing and corporate roles. The planning, notably, began before D’Amaro formally took the top job in March, suggesting the new boss inherited a restructuring already in motion rather than one of his own making.
Driving the push is Asad Ayaz, Disney’s newly appointed chief marketing officer, who in January assumed command of a unified, company-wide marketing operation spanning film, television and streaming. His consolidation drive has been given a suitably cinematic internal name: Project Imagine.
The move is modest by Disney’s recent standards. Between 2023 and 2025, under former chief executive Bob Iger, the company eliminated roughly 8,000 positions across several brutal rounds of cuts, saving $7.5 billion, comfortably exceeding its own targets. As recently as June 2025, several hundred more jobs were axed across Disney Entertainment, hitting film and television marketing, publicity, casting, development and corporate finance.
Disney’s structural headaches are well-documented: shrinking streaming margins, a weakened box office, and fierce competition from Amazon and YouTube gnawing at its flanks. The company is merging its Disney+ and Hulu teams into a single app, has brought in consultants from Bain & Co to guide its broader cost strategy, and is betting heavily on digital growth.
The wider entertainment industry offers little comfort. Sony Pictures, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have all taken the knife to their workforces in recent years, and further cuts loom if Paramount’s acquisition of Warner goes through.
For D’Amaro, the message is clear: there will be no honeymoon period. The magic kingdom still has some cost-cutting spells left to cast.
