Category: ves

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/03/marvel-disney-visual-effects-artists-speak-out

“The visual effects industry is filled with terrific people with lots of goodwill who really care but, at the end of the day, there’s nothing in place when their backs are up against the wall and Disney is making crazy demands,”

https://www.thegamer.com/marvel-mcu-vfx-artists-deadlines-crunch-stress/

“VFX artists are speaking out against Marvel, with many refusing to ever work with the entertainment giant again. This comes as artists share accounts of unworkable deadlines and immense pressure leading to stress and unsatisfactory final products. Many have requested to never be put on a Marvel project again, saying that the studio has the “worst VFX management out there”.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/she-hulk-cgi-marvel-vfx-artists-1235332644

“Maslany, Gao and Coiro had been asked by a journalist about their experiences with the “She-Hulk” VFX artists and “how you feel about the finished product,” noting that “there have been numerous accounts lately that VFX houses … they are feeling incredibly crushed by the studios in general and Marvel keeps getting called out.”

https://www.slashfilm.com/941931/why-so-many-vfx-artists-are-fed-up-with-marvel/

“The studio has a lot of power over the effects houses, just because it has so many blockbuster movies coming out one after the other. If you upset Marvel in any way, there’s a very high chance you’re not going to get those projects in the future. So the effects houses are trying to bend over backward to keep Marvel happy. […] One visual-effects house could not finish the number of shots and reshoots Marvel was asking for in time, so Marvel had to give my studio the work. Ever since, that house has effectively been blacklisted from getting Marvel work.”

https://gizmodo.com/disney-marvel-movies-vfx-industry-nightmare-1849385834

“There’s a joke in the visual effects industry that goes like this: Someone hears you work on films, so they ask you, “What movie made you cry?” The artist will respond, “In theaters or in the office?””

https://www.awn.com/news/cinesite-acquires-canadian-studio-latelier-animation

https://deadline.com/2022/07/netflix-acquires-animation-studio-animal-logic-1235072619/

https://animallogic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AnimalLogic_PressRelease_Final.pdf

NETFLIX ACQUIRES WORLD LEADING INDEPENDENT ANIMATION STUDIO ANIMAL LOGIC
19 July 2022 Netflix and Animal Logic are excited to announce today that Netflix plans to acquire the
Australian animation studio.* This acquisition will support Netflix’s ambitious animated film slate,
building on films like Academy Award-nominated Over the Moon, Academy Award-nominated Klaus
and the recently released The Sea Beast

https://www.animvfxunion.com/blog/mpcrag

https://kotaku.com/sources-unity-laying-off-hundreds-of-staffers-1849125482

https://www.vfxvoice.com/the-rise-and-future-of-high-end-episodic-vfx/

https://www.slashfilm.com/839799/the-most-influential-vfx-artists-in-movie-history/

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/netflix-animation-erased-executives-fired-220251819.html

Phil Rynda, whose official title is Netflix’s Director of Creative Leadership and Development for Original Animation, was let go this week, along with several of his staff, TheWrap can exclusively report and Netflix has confirmed.

tbivision.com/2022/04/20/netflix-shares-plummet-33-after-losing-subscribers-for-first-time-in-a-decade/

Announcing its Q1 2022 results, the streaming leader revealed that it had lost 200,000 subscribers in the quarter, prompting an investor sell-off that lopped off more than a third of the SVOD’s value in after-hours trading.

Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings then revealed in an earnings call that the streamer would roll out cheaper ad-supported versions of its service, with plans being explored “over the next year or two.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61173561

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/weta-fx-opens-vancouver-office-amid-global-expansion-1235125067/

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-1235207852

www.reuters.com/business/amazon-may-be-days-away-closing-deal-buy-film-studio-mgm-2022-03-14

news.sky.com/story/british-visual-effects-giant-cinesite-devises-plot-for-blockbuster-163300m-sale-12588150

www.theverge.com/2022/1/18/22889258/microsoft-activision-blizzard-xbox-acquisition-call-of-duty-overwatch

www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60401124

Streaming service Paramount+ has announced a huge slate of new shows and films ahead of its expansion to countries including the UK this year.

www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/matrix-co-producer-sues-warner-bros-over-hbo-max-streaming-release.html

“WB’s sole purpose in moving the release date of ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ forward was to create a desperately needed wave of year-end HBO Max premium subscriptions from what it knew would be a blockbuster film, despite knowing full well that it would decimate the film’s box office revenue and deprive Village Roadshow of any economic upside that WB and its affiliates would enjoy,”

“The Matrix Resurrections” disappointed at the box office, partially because of its simultaneous release strategy and partially because its target audience is older than the moviegoers who have been most active in returning to cinemas.