On Jan. 7, Walt Disney Co. announced it wasn’t putting its Pixar Animation Studios feature “Turning Red” into theatrical release, but instead was slating it for a March 11 premiere on the Disney+ streaming service. “Turning Red” is the third consecutive Pixar feature kept out of theaters in favor of a streaming debut, following “Soul” and “Luca.” No Pixar film has played in a U.S. theater since “Onward” in March 2020, which opened ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shuttering of theaters. The announcement that “Turning Red”—a comic fantasy about a 13-year-old girl who turns into a giant red panda whenever she is agitated—would not be seen by movie audiences generated a flurry of negative press coverage. Variety ran an article with the angry headline “Why Does Disney Keep Sending Pixar Movies Straight to Streaming?” while Insider conducted interviews with anonymous Pixar employees who expressed frustration over the lack of a theatrical …