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Despite a dazzling box office winning streak led by 'A Minecraft Movie' and 'Sinners,' layoffs have hit Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group. The layoffs come as the storied movie studio behind hits like 2023's 'Barbie' attempts to streamline its structure and save costs. The layoffs will reduce the company's staff by about 10 percent.

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00:00Despite a dazzling box office winning streak led by a Minecraft movie and Sinners,

00:05layoffs have hit Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group.

00:09The layoffs come as the storied movie studio behind hits like 2023's Barbie

00:14attempts to streamline its structure and save costs.

00:17The layoffs will reduce the company's staff by about 10%.

00:20According to Insiders, the operation, which does business around the globe,

00:24had a total headcount of under 1,000 employees.

00:27The heads of the Motion Picture Group, Michael DeLuca and Pamela Abdi,

00:31announced the layoffs in an internal memo to staff on Wednesday morning.

00:34Before the release of a Minecraft movie, the duo had come under intense scrutiny earlier this year

00:39after a string of box office misses like Mickey 17.

00:43The memo reads in part,

00:57Meanwhile, the studio's recently released film Superman now ranks alongside a Minecraft movie

01:11and Sinners as one of the top five domestic box office earners of 2025.

01:16Its current domestic haul is $292 million,

01:18and it's crossed the $500 million mark globally.

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