Layoffs got underway at Disney's Pixar Animation Studio on Tuesday ... There have also been projects like Gary Rydstrom's "Newt," an attempt at a low-budget Pixar feature that were canceled.

Pixar, for example, has axed its own titles for being too similar to those of competing studios, like the time it removed "Newt," a film ... followup to the 2002 Disney animated feature (and ...