San Antonio native part of team behind creating Pixarโs new movie โSoulโ
SAN ANTONIO โ A graduate of Alamo Heights High School, Mike Jones has come a long way from watching movies at the old Broadway Theatre. โItโs now a bank but I would always walk to Broadway Theatre and see movies every time I possibly could,โ Jones said. His career started in journalism but he ended up at Pixar and is now a head writer. โThe film is coming out now when I think people need to see it the most,โ Jones said. His next movie is titled โLucaโ and it is set to release next year.
Pixar's 'Soul' bypasses theaters, will stream on Christmas
NEW YORK โ The Pixar film โSoulโ will skip theaters and instead premiere on Disney+ on Christmas, the Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday, sending one of the fall's last big movies straight to streaming. The successive delays of the film industry's would-be blockbusters has only made the dire circumstances of movie theaters more acute. Without aid, the organization said, 69% of small and mid-sized movie theater companies will close or go bankrupt. โThe stark reality is that many movie theaters will not be able to open again if they donโt receive government help,โ says Esther Baruh, director of government relations for the association. It recently announced that it would lay off 28,000 workers, most of them at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.