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EXCLUSIVE: Californian VFX studio Whiskytree is opening a post-production facility in Georgia. The new office opened earlier this month and more than doubles the size of the company. It is located outside of Atlanta, and recruitment for “dozens” of artist and technician roles is underway. The…

Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we'll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we're talking to Reno Studios, a digital studio launched in Taipei in 2017, initially handling VFX for Taiwanese films…

Since the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was awarded in 2002 to DreamWorks' Shrek, the animation industry has made incredible strides. This awards season, such films are pushing the boundaries of what animation can be, and VFX plays a huge part in infusing new artistic styles into every…

EXCLUSIVE: DNEG workers could unionize in Canada. IATSE Canada is in the process of forging branches in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec at the under-fire VFX firm, which recently made a pay offer to workers that has ruffled feathers around the globe. If formed, IATSE reps plan on beginning…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Michelle Grady has been upped to President of Sony Pictures Imageworks. She was previously EVP. Grady’s promotion comes in the wake of Sony Pictures Imageworks’ work on the blockbuster hit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which grossed $690 million at the…

The Visual Effects Society (VES), the visual effects industry's professional global honorary society, has announced the Society's newest VES Fellows. They will be celebrated with other honorees at a special event in October, exact date TBA. This year's VES Fellows are Jeff Barnes, Toni Pace…

Pete Kozachik, a visual effects and stop-motion artist whose work on acclaimed animated films by Tim Burton, Henry Selick and others brought recognition and an Oscar nomination, died Sept. 12 at his California home in the Bay Area following a years-long battle with aphasia and primary progressive aphasia…

EXCLUSIVE: Just weeks after laying off dozens in its London HQ, DNEG, the company responsible for the VFX on movies such as Dune and Oppenheimer, is asking staff to take up to 25% pay cuts or join a loan scheme, as work slows to a standstill due to the strikes. Insiders believe their contracts will be…

Visual effects workers at Marvel Studios and seven of its subsidiaries have voted 32-0 to unionize with IATSE in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. The union called the unanimous vote an "historic first" for the industry's VFX workforce. The next step for IATSE is to engage…

Visual effects workers at Walt Disney Pictures are seeking to unionize with IATSE, which says that a supermajority of the 18 in-house VFX crewmembers employed there have signed cards with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to be represented by the union. Walt Disney Pictures is a subsidiary of…

The Visual Effects Society has composited its first group of 2023 honorees. Oscar-winning VFX supervisor and VES founding member Tim McGovern will receive the 2023 VES Founders Award, and the group has awarded lifetime VES memberships to McGovern, archivist and curator Sandra Joy Aguilar, producer…

‘Citadel’ VFX Outfit Signs Chief Business Officer Good Omens 2 and Citadel VFX outfit Milk has snapped up a former DNEG exec as Chief Business Development Officer and Exec Producer. Marianne Speight will lead the outfit’s new business and bidding teams, supporting group studios in London, France…