Add anonymous content to the list of entertainment companies hit by layoffs, as Deadline confirmed it laid off about 8% of its workforce on Friday.
Sources explained the cuts at the company, which so far employed about 170 people, as efforts to remain competitive during a period of reckoning in an already economically fragile industry that is now looking to recover from not one, but two hugely influential strikes.
Positions have been cut across all divisions including talent management, television, film, literature, media rights and branded entertainment, staff were notified today.
Anonymous Content, a management and production company that is currently in the final stages of searching for a new chief executive, is currently in theaters with Enemy, Amazon’s sci-fi thriller starring Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan, which had its world premiere late last month at the New York Film Festival. The company is known for its work on decorated films such as Spotlight And Survivoras well as award-winning series such as True Detective, Mister Robot And Schitt’s Creekand counts among his future projects an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead. Nickel boysTV series adaptation Time Bandits from Taika Waititi and the Alfonso Cuaron miniseries on Apple TV+ Denial of responsibility starring Cate Blanchett.
Other companies that have cut staff in recent weeks as previously announced include Blumhouse Television, Amazon, Outfest, Entertainment Partners, Buchwald, Max and CAA. News of the layoffs at Anonymous Content was first reported by Variety.