Mr. Lasseter, who was forced to resign from Disney in June after complaints about unwanted workplace touching, will head Skydance Animation, which is affiliated with Paramount Pictures.
LOS ANGELES — John Lasseter, the Pixar co-founder who was forced to resign from the Walt Disney Company in June after complaints about unwanted touching in the workplace, has found a new Hollywood perch: Skydance Media, a production company affiliated with Paramount Pictures.
David Ellison, who founded Skydance in 2010 with money inherited from his father, the Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, said on Wednesday that Mr. Lasseter had been named the head of a relatively new department, Skydance Animation. Mr. Lasseter, 61, will start this month.
“John is a singular creative and executive talent whose impact on the animation industry cannot be overstated,” Mr. Ellison said in a statement. “And yet we did not enter into this decision lightly. John has acknowledged and apologized for his mistakes, and, during the past year away from the workplace, has endeavored to address and reform them.
