The House of Mouse has announced some new assignments for upper-level personnel:
... Animation Studios president Andrew Millstein and “Zootopia” producer and creative executive Clark Spencer are stepping into new leadership roles. Millstein will become co-president of Blue Sky, the studio behind “Ice Age” and “Rio,” alongside current co-president Robert Baird.
Baird will continue to drive the creative direction of the studio reporting to Walt Disney Studios’ chief creative officer and co-chairman Alan Horn and co-chairman Alan Bergman. Millstein will oversee day-to-day operations, focusing more on the business side. Millstein will report to Jim Morris, who will take on a supervisory role at Blue Sky. He will continue in his capacity as president of Pixar Animation Studios. Spencer has been named president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, reporting to Bergman. ...
The most interesting news here is that Blue Sky, the animation studio acquired in the Fox purchase that creates theatrical animated features on the east coast, will live on for the foreseeable future. Possibly (probably?) doing other stuff besides theatricals, since Diz Co. has plenty of facilities doing that kind of work already. But Blue Sky will at least be around awhile.
Andrew Millstein has been with the company for two decades. He was earlier an executive with visual effects companies, and headed up "The Secret Lab", Disney's in-house visual effectss shop, in the early oughts. When TSL closed, he was reassigned to Disney Animation, Florida. And when that studio closed, he came back to the Burbank lot, where he spent a decade running the day-to-day operations of the Walt Disney Animation Studios under Ed Catmull and John Lasseter.
Now, of course, Lasseter and Catmull are gone, and Millstein has ascended to a higher executive position. (His days of closing Disney divisions and studios are, apparently, O.Ver.)
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