Exclusive: Tenet and Dune VFX firm Dneg has promoted Tom Jacomb to President, Dneg Animation.
Previously serving as Managing Director, Jacomb helped launch the Feature Animation division at Dneg in 2014. Based in London, he has guided the growth of the team to more than 500 employees across Dneg’s animation studios in London, Los Angeles, Montréal and Mumbai.
In his new role as President, Jacomb will oversee further worldwide investment and expansion of Dneg Animation, including expansion into Vancouver and the creation of up to 100 new animation roles in the city.
Jacomb’s promotion to President is effective concurrently with the appointment of five new members of Dneg Animation’s team and the studio’s expanding slate of new feature film and episodic animation productions.
The five hires comprise: Freddy Chaleur (Sherlock Gnomes) and Yancy Lindquist (The Boss Baby) joining Dneg Animation’s team of VFX Supervisors, which includes Philippe Denis,...
Previously serving as Managing Director, Jacomb helped launch the Feature Animation division at Dneg in 2014. Based in London, he has guided the growth of the team to more than 500 employees across Dneg’s animation studios in London, Los Angeles, Montréal and Mumbai.
In his new role as President, Jacomb will oversee further worldwide investment and expansion of Dneg Animation, including expansion into Vancouver and the creation of up to 100 new animation roles in the city.
Jacomb’s promotion to President is effective concurrently with the appointment of five new members of Dneg Animation’s team and the studio’s expanding slate of new feature film and episodic animation productions.
The five hires comprise: Freddy Chaleur (Sherlock Gnomes) and Yancy Lindquist (The Boss Baby) joining Dneg Animation’s team of VFX Supervisors, which includes Philippe Denis,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Today was a busy day for some of the smaller guilds with the Visual Effects Society, the Cinema Audio Society, and the Makeup and Hairstylists Guilds all announcing their nominations for 2013.
First, we have the Ves, whose main category to look at is “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture,” where we find Gravity and four other nominees that are just going to have to be happy with the fact that they got nominated. This is perhaps the easiest category to call in the entirety of awards season, and I don’t mean just here, but for the Oscar as well (Last year’s winner, Life of Pi, easily took this category before going on to claim the Oscar). It’s true that films like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Star Trek Into Darkness had outstanding effects as well, but nothing even came close to the amazing,...
First, we have the Ves, whose main category to look at is “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture,” where we find Gravity and four other nominees that are just going to have to be happy with the fact that they got nominated. This is perhaps the easiest category to call in the entirety of awards season, and I don’t mean just here, but for the Oscar as well (Last year’s winner, Life of Pi, easily took this category before going on to claim the Oscar). It’s true that films like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Star Trek Into Darkness had outstanding effects as well, but nothing even came close to the amazing,...
- 1/15/2014
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
The International Press Academy has announced its nominations for the 18th annual Satellite Awards and Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity," David O. Russell's "American Hustle," and Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" led the pack.
Winners will be announced on March 9, 2014 at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Here's the complete nominations:
Motion Pictures
Actress in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams American Hustle (Sony)
Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
Sandra Bullock Gravity (Warner Bros.)
Judi Dench Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
Adèle Exarchopoulos Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Enough Said (Fox Searchlight)
Meryl Streep August: Osage County (The Weinstein Company)
Emma Thompson Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)
Actor in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale American Hustle (Sony)
Bruce Dern Nebraska (Paramount)
Leonardo DiCaprio The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)
Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Tom Hanks Captain Phillips (Sony)
Matthew McConaughey Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features...
Winners will be announced on March 9, 2014 at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Here's the complete nominations:
Motion Pictures
Actress in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams American Hustle (Sony)
Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
Sandra Bullock Gravity (Warner Bros.)
Judi Dench Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
Adèle Exarchopoulos Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Enough Said (Fox Searchlight)
Meryl Streep August: Osage County (The Weinstein Company)
Emma Thompson Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)
Actor in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale American Hustle (Sony)
Bruce Dern Nebraska (Paramount)
Leonardo DiCaprio The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)
Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Tom Hanks Captain Phillips (Sony)
Matthew McConaughey Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features...
- 12/16/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
12 Years a Slave continues to be the leader in the clubhouse when it comes to nominations. After leading the Spirit Award nominations it now leads the International Press Academy's (Ipa) 2013 Satellite Award nominations with a total of ten noms, followed by American Hustle and Gravity, each with eight nominations. The top five nominees were rounded out by Rush with seven nominations and Inside Llewyn Davis and Saving Mr. Banks with six nominations each. The Satellites, however, are an interesting bunch. As you can see there are several nominations in each category, leaving pretty much no stone unturned. I guess you could say no nomination for Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station) is a surprise and, in my personal opinion, with such a large field of nominees I'd like to see Joaquin Phoenix (Her) get a nomination, but that certainly isn't going to be a film for everyone even though Arcade Fire was...
- 12/2/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Chicago – Here is an alleged family film made with all the heart and invention of a cynical business deal. Not a single person involved in the production appears to have any concept of what constitutes quality family entertainment. It’s essentially 103 minutes of product placement, with the biggest product being the Smurfs. There’s also room for Rock Band, Google, M&Ms, the Blue Man Group and every single business located on Times Square.
Unlike James Bobin’s marvelously heartfelt comedy, “The Muppets,” which dug deep into the spirit of Jim Henson’s original work, Raja Gosnell’s “The Smurfs” uses Peyo’s beloved characters as mere vessels for stale cultural references. Just as “Star Wars” led to the dumbing down of mainstream American cinema, the Genie in Disney’s “Aladdin” inspired generations of lazy filmmakers to construct entire kiddie franchises out of stitched-together homages and in-jokes. Once Smurfette (voiced by Katy Perry) quips,...
Unlike James Bobin’s marvelously heartfelt comedy, “The Muppets,” which dug deep into the spirit of Jim Henson’s original work, Raja Gosnell’s “The Smurfs” uses Peyo’s beloved characters as mere vessels for stale cultural references. Just as “Star Wars” led to the dumbing down of mainstream American cinema, the Genie in Disney’s “Aladdin” inspired generations of lazy filmmakers to construct entire kiddie franchises out of stitched-together homages and in-jokes. Once Smurfette (voiced by Katy Perry) quips,...
- 12/20/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sony Pictures Imageworks is on board to work on the 3-D version of "G-Force" -- one of the earliest scheduled live-action digital 3-D releases -- for Jerry Bruckheimer Prods. and Disney.
Imageworks also confirmed its current slate of visual effects projects. It is the lead VFX house on "Eagle Eye" for DreamWorks, "Watchmen" for Warner Bros., the untitled Ridley Scott film, United Artists' "Valkyrie" and the computer-animated "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" for Sony Pictures Animation and Columbia.
On "G-Force," Imageworks will take the 2-d version of the film and convert all visual effects shots to 3-D. The company's Rob Engle will oversee the stereo effort.
The Imageworks VFX team on "G-Force" is led by visual effects supervisor Scott Stokdyk, who was the VFX supervisor on "Spider-Man 3" and won an Oscar for visual effects for his work on "Spider-Man 2." The "G-Force" crew in?cludes digital effects supervisor Seth Maury and animation supervisor Troy Saliba.
For D.J. Caruso's "Eagle Eye," Imageworks' Jim Berney will serve as VFX supervisor with David Smith as digital effects supervisor and Bob Pietzman as CG supervisor.
The "Watchmen" VFX team includes Imageworks' VFX supervisor Pete Travers; digital effects supervisor Dan Krame; and Kenn McDonald, most recently animation supervisor on "Beowulf."
The VFX on the untitled Scott film will be led by Imageworks' Sheena Duggal as visual effects supervisor along with John Monos as CG supervisor.
Rich Hoover will serve as senior visual effects supervisor on "Valkyrie," along with CG supervisors Peter Nofz, Dan Eaton, Theo Bialek and Patrick Witting.
Imageworks' credits include "Hancock," which opens today, as well as "Beo?wulf" and "The Polar Express."...
Imageworks also confirmed its current slate of visual effects projects. It is the lead VFX house on "Eagle Eye" for DreamWorks, "Watchmen" for Warner Bros., the untitled Ridley Scott film, United Artists' "Valkyrie" and the computer-animated "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" for Sony Pictures Animation and Columbia.
On "G-Force," Imageworks will take the 2-d version of the film and convert all visual effects shots to 3-D. The company's Rob Engle will oversee the stereo effort.
The Imageworks VFX team on "G-Force" is led by visual effects supervisor Scott Stokdyk, who was the VFX supervisor on "Spider-Man 3" and won an Oscar for visual effects for his work on "Spider-Man 2." The "G-Force" crew in?cludes digital effects supervisor Seth Maury and animation supervisor Troy Saliba.
For D.J. Caruso's "Eagle Eye," Imageworks' Jim Berney will serve as VFX supervisor with David Smith as digital effects supervisor and Bob Pietzman as CG supervisor.
The "Watchmen" VFX team includes Imageworks' VFX supervisor Pete Travers; digital effects supervisor Dan Krame; and Kenn McDonald, most recently animation supervisor on "Beowulf."
The VFX on the untitled Scott film will be led by Imageworks' Sheena Duggal as visual effects supervisor along with John Monos as CG supervisor.
Rich Hoover will serve as senior visual effects supervisor on "Valkyrie," along with CG supervisors Peter Nofz, Dan Eaton, Theo Bialek and Patrick Witting.
Imageworks' credits include "Hancock," which opens today, as well as "Beo?wulf" and "The Polar Express."...
- 7/1/2008
- by By Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Animation director Andy Jones has joined Sony Pictures Imageworks. Formerly an animation director at Digital Domain, where he oversaw animation on 20th Century Fox's I, Robot, Jones joined Imageworks for the opportunity to oversee 100 shots of a computer animated digital double of Superman on Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming Superman Returns. Jones joins Imageworks' team of animation directors and supervisors that includes David Schaub, Spencer Cook, Sean Mullen, Troy Saliba, Pepe Valencia, and Todd Wilderman. Jones directed The Final Flight of the Osiris episode from The Animatrix series.
- 1/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nothing much rhymes with Bolshevik or communism, apparently, as these words and such crucial historical figures as Lenin and Trotsky are nowhere to be found in the curious, well-mounted animated musical epic "Anastasia". Historical accuracy aside, the Fox Family Films holiday release, the first project from Fox Animation Studios, is consistently bountiful in delivering lush visuals and drawing one into an engaging, if slow-moving and often preposterous, scenario.
A rare wide-screen animated feature, with Fox resurrecting its CinemaScope trademark, "Anastasia" presents a marketing challenge with a story that is not a widely known classic. Directed by Anatole Litvak and inspiring the current film, Fox's 1956 live-action "Anastasia" earned comeback star Ingrid Bergman an Oscar, but the translation of a historical sideshow into a "20th century fairy tale"-- complete with supernatural villain and cute creatures -- is another titanic gamble for the studio most in need of a hit.
A breezy overview of the Russian Revolution introduces Princess Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov (voice by Kirsten Dunst), the young daughter of the czar. Miraculously spared from the revolutionary violence that claims her immediate family, she is lost in the turmoil.
Ten years later, the lead (Meg Ryan) is a nobody in St. Petersburg, but rumors abound of one survivor of Russia's last imperial rulers.
Enter con men Dimitri (John Cusack) and Vladimir (Kelsey Grammer), who recruit Anastasia for a scam involving the Dowager Empress Marie (Angela Lansbury), an elegant lady in Paris who searches for the young girl she gave a music-box key to before disaster struck. In songs and lively nonmusical scenes, Dimitri convinces Anastasia she might be the lost Romanov, and the two gradually fall in love.
Alas, the central romance is a bit sophisticated for younger children, and the filmmakers resort to making Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd), the peasant mystic who had great influence at the court of Nicholas II, into a Disney-like villain by way of EC Comics. Although the maniac's loyal sidekick Bartok (Hank Azaria), a fruity bat with brains, will amuse the kiddies, most of these scenes are instantly forgettable comic relief.
One of the best sequences, however, occurs when the resurrected--from-hell Rasputin tries to fulfill his curse and kill Anastasia, Dimitri and Vladimir on a train.
On a pure entertainment level, the story is largely successful. The songs of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have memorable moments, with singing duties handled capably by Liz Callaway (Anastasia), Jim Cummings (Rasputin) and Jonathan Doluchitz (Dimitri).
In terms of animation, "Anastasia" is a stellar achievement for co-directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. They use a familiar, illustrative style with an ambitious agenda that is unfortunately tweaked too far into fantasy -- or maybe not far enough.
ANASTASIA
20th Century Fox
Fox Family Films presents
a Don Bluth/Gary Goldman film
Producer-directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Executive producer: Maureen Donley
Screenwriters: Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White
Animation adaptation: Eric Tuchman
Songs: Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty
Music: David Newman
Directing animators: Len Simon, John Hill, Troy Saliba, Fernando Moro, Sandro Cleuzo, Paul Newberry
Casting: Brian Chavanne
Voices:
Anastasia/Anya: Meg Ryan
Dimitri: John Cusack
Vladimir: Kelsey Grammer
Rasputin: Christopher Lloyd
Bartok: Hank Azaria
Sophie: Bernadette Peters
Young Anastasia: Kirsten Dunst
Dowager Empress Marie: Angela Lansbury
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
A rare wide-screen animated feature, with Fox resurrecting its CinemaScope trademark, "Anastasia" presents a marketing challenge with a story that is not a widely known classic. Directed by Anatole Litvak and inspiring the current film, Fox's 1956 live-action "Anastasia" earned comeback star Ingrid Bergman an Oscar, but the translation of a historical sideshow into a "20th century fairy tale"-- complete with supernatural villain and cute creatures -- is another titanic gamble for the studio most in need of a hit.
A breezy overview of the Russian Revolution introduces Princess Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov (voice by Kirsten Dunst), the young daughter of the czar. Miraculously spared from the revolutionary violence that claims her immediate family, she is lost in the turmoil.
Ten years later, the lead (Meg Ryan) is a nobody in St. Petersburg, but rumors abound of one survivor of Russia's last imperial rulers.
Enter con men Dimitri (John Cusack) and Vladimir (Kelsey Grammer), who recruit Anastasia for a scam involving the Dowager Empress Marie (Angela Lansbury), an elegant lady in Paris who searches for the young girl she gave a music-box key to before disaster struck. In songs and lively nonmusical scenes, Dimitri convinces Anastasia she might be the lost Romanov, and the two gradually fall in love.
Alas, the central romance is a bit sophisticated for younger children, and the filmmakers resort to making Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd), the peasant mystic who had great influence at the court of Nicholas II, into a Disney-like villain by way of EC Comics. Although the maniac's loyal sidekick Bartok (Hank Azaria), a fruity bat with brains, will amuse the kiddies, most of these scenes are instantly forgettable comic relief.
One of the best sequences, however, occurs when the resurrected--from-hell Rasputin tries to fulfill his curse and kill Anastasia, Dimitri and Vladimir on a train.
On a pure entertainment level, the story is largely successful. The songs of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have memorable moments, with singing duties handled capably by Liz Callaway (Anastasia), Jim Cummings (Rasputin) and Jonathan Doluchitz (Dimitri).
In terms of animation, "Anastasia" is a stellar achievement for co-directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. They use a familiar, illustrative style with an ambitious agenda that is unfortunately tweaked too far into fantasy -- or maybe not far enough.
ANASTASIA
20th Century Fox
Fox Family Films presents
a Don Bluth/Gary Goldman film
Producer-directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Executive producer: Maureen Donley
Screenwriters: Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White
Animation adaptation: Eric Tuchman
Songs: Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty
Music: David Newman
Directing animators: Len Simon, John Hill, Troy Saliba, Fernando Moro, Sandro Cleuzo, Paul Newberry
Casting: Brian Chavanne
Voices:
Anastasia/Anya: Meg Ryan
Dimitri: John Cusack
Vladimir: Kelsey Grammer
Rasputin: Christopher Lloyd
Bartok: Hank Azaria
Sophie: Bernadette Peters
Young Anastasia: Kirsten Dunst
Dowager Empress Marie: Angela Lansbury
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 11/10/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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