Does anybody know how many people work for a major movie studio (e.g. Warner Bros.)?

[Lembit]

100? 1000? 10000? 100000?

[jcgary]

Somewhere in the low thousands, although it's different for each studio and it also depends on how you define 'work for.' Do you mean just actual hourly and salaried employees? Or do you mean to include contract workers and day-rates and people working on productions?

[Porkaccino]

Back when I worked at Disney, and I remember hearing they employed over 100,000 people worldwide. Disney, I think more than other studios, have extension operations around the world, especially at that time. This was five or six years ago, before multiple rounds of layoffs, so now, that number has surely dropped, but I don't know how much.

[jcgary]

Porkaccino brings up another good point -- do you mean to define 'studio' as the entire conglomerate? Would Disney also include ABC? ABC Studios? The theme park division? Or when you say studio, do you mean only the feature film division?

[Porkaccino]

Porkaccino brings up another good point -- do you mean to define 'studio' as the entire conglomerate? Would Disney also include ABC? ABC Studios? The theme park division? Or when you say studio, do you mean only the feature film division?

To be clear, the 100,000+ I quoted before was indeed for the whole kit and kaboodle. Features, home vid, Buena Vista, ABC, Miramax, theme parks, consumer products, video games, everything under the Disney umbrella. In fact, even earlier, I heard 120,000, but that was before they sold the Angels.