Pixar co-founder and former Walt Disney Animation chief John Lasseter, shown in 2016, will head the recently launched animation division of production company Skydance Media. (Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP)After retiring from Pixar, the company he founded, in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, John Lasseter is again heading an animation studio. Lasseter, the former creative chief of Pixar and Disney Animation, will lead Skydance Animation beginning later this month, Skydance Media Chief Executive David Ellison announced Wednesday. @Skydance Media’s decision to hire John Lasseter as head of animation endorses and perpetuates a broken system that allows powerful men to act without consequence. pic.twitter.com/GuVAfZDHah — TIME'S UP (@TIMESUPNOW) January 9, 2019Read more:‘Coco’ filmmakers point to progress at Pixar since John Lasseter’s leave

Source: Washington Post January 09, 2019 21:56 UTC