Katherine Chappell, a 29-year-old visual-effects editor who worked on Game of Thrones, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Divergent, died Monday after being bitten by a lion on safari in South Africa. The female lion attacked Chappell's vehicle through her open window, according to Lion Park employee Scott Simpson, who told NBC News that park rules forbid visitors from rolling the windows down. Chappell's driver Pierre Potgieter was injured trying to pull her away from the lion, and also says he suffered a heart attack during the incident.According to CNN, Chappell, who worked for VFX company Scanline, was spending her vacation on a volunteer trip to aid local wildlife. Last year, Chappell's team won the Emmy for Best Visual Effects for the Game of Thrones episode "The Children." In a statement on Facebook, her sister called her a "brilliant, kind, adventurous and high-spirited woman," adding, "Her energy and passion...
- 6/3/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
Katherine Chappell, a visual effects editor who worked on Game of Thrones, has been identified as the American tourist killed by lions in South Africa Monday, NBC News reports. She was 29. Chappell was riding in an SUV at a wildlife park when a lion she was photographing attacked her after jumping through the window of the vehicle. The windows in the SUV were down, Scott Simpson, the assistant operations manager at Lion Park, told the Associated Press. He said this was against park policy. Simpson said the lioness had cubs with her during the attack. She has been moved
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- 6/3/2015
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
So, what if, like, hot older women who like to score with younger dudes (you know - cougars) actually turned into - like - cougars?
Ningen Manga is the production company that brought us Women's Studies, the horrific exploration of feminist extremism and female identity. Now Lonnie Martin and Cindy Marie Martin, the filmmaking partnership, are addressing another of society's stereotypes of women. And they're doing it with a really clever twist.
Cougars is about a girl named Sasha, a teenager at constant odds with her slutty Cougar/Milf mom, Bastet. When Sasha's young friend Stuart decides to walk her home from school, she becomes forced to confront the dark secret that makes her more like her mother than she'd care to admit.
What I can only hope ate actual "cougar transformations" (please please please) are created by Spaghetti Industries FX artists Christain Quarantillo & Scott Simpson (Laid to Rest 1 & 2, Deadlands...
Ningen Manga is the production company that brought us Women's Studies, the horrific exploration of feminist extremism and female identity. Now Lonnie Martin and Cindy Marie Martin, the filmmaking partnership, are addressing another of society's stereotypes of women. And they're doing it with a really clever twist.
Cougars is about a girl named Sasha, a teenager at constant odds with her slutty Cougar/Milf mom, Bastet. When Sasha's young friend Stuart decides to walk her home from school, she becomes forced to confront the dark secret that makes her more like her mother than she'd care to admit.
What I can only hope ate actual "cougar transformations" (please please please) are created by Spaghetti Industries FX artists Christain Quarantillo & Scott Simpson (Laid to Rest 1 & 2, Deadlands...
- 6/18/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Ningen Manga Productions has whipped up a teaser for Cougars , a new project hitting the film fest circuit this fall. Full press release and teaser below. Since Cougars is a horror movie, it's not a spoiler alert to say some of the characters go through some literal transformation before all is said and done. Nmp teamed up with Spaghetti Industries FX artists Christain Quarantillo & Scott Simpson (Laid to Rest 1&2, Deadlands 1&2, the upcoming Area 51) to bring that transformation to life. Says Quarantillo, "Not many people are making monster movies anymore, so it was great to sink our teeth into something different. I'm really pleased with how the effects turned out." Adds Producer Cindy Marie Martin, "We've known the Spaghetti 'dudes' for a long...
- 6/17/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Ottawa-based bitHeads acquires Toronto digital studio Bedlam Games to become one of Ontario’s largest digital media companies.
Received a bit of interesting news from a friend of mine who works at Playbrains, that its parent company bitHeads has just acquired a local digital media studio and is looking to hire.
After 15 successful years, prominent Ottawa gaming and application company bitHeads has decided to double its personnel by acquiring local Toronto digital media studio Bedlam Games. The new company will be dubbed the roll-off-the-tongue title of Ascension CrossMedia Inc. (naturally), but will continue to use bitHeads and Bedlam with clients.
Together the two companies plan to target an emerging form of gaming called “connected transmedia.” This new form of gameplay allows consumers to play a single game across any form of media, be it television, console mobile; providing application makers with virtual 24-hour access to their market.
Co-chief executive Scott Simpson...
Received a bit of interesting news from a friend of mine who works at Playbrains, that its parent company bitHeads has just acquired a local digital media studio and is looking to hire.
After 15 successful years, prominent Ottawa gaming and application company bitHeads has decided to double its personnel by acquiring local Toronto digital media studio Bedlam Games. The new company will be dubbed the roll-off-the-tongue title of Ascension CrossMedia Inc. (naturally), but will continue to use bitHeads and Bedlam with clients.
Together the two companies plan to target an emerging form of gaming called “connected transmedia.” This new form of gameplay allows consumers to play a single game across any form of media, be it television, console mobile; providing application makers with virtual 24-hour access to their market.
Co-chief executive Scott Simpson...
- 1/21/2011
- by Jesse Ouimet
- DorkShelf.com
Corus Entertainment announced the identity of its Corus Made with Pay Fund recipients. Of course, the recepients in question are actually 34 upcoming Canadian films.
By reading the press release, we can come to the conclusion that the high-profile upcoming films among the 34 recipients are:
King Leary, the novel from acclaimed screenwriter and author Paul Quarrington and Verite Films Inc., which follows the final adventure of old-timer Percival Leary, a one-time hockey legend, as he heads to Toronto to become the face of a marketing campaign. Quarrington’s previous works include Galveston, which was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Whale Music, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 1989 and King Leary, winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal.Author and screenwriter Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans brings her hilarious and heartwarming novel about a family’s road trip across Canada to life in collaboration with screenwriter Semi Chellas...
By reading the press release, we can come to the conclusion that the high-profile upcoming films among the 34 recipients are:
King Leary, the novel from acclaimed screenwriter and author Paul Quarrington and Verite Films Inc., which follows the final adventure of old-timer Percival Leary, a one-time hockey legend, as he heads to Toronto to become the face of a marketing campaign. Quarrington’s previous works include Galveston, which was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Whale Music, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 1989 and King Leary, winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal.Author and screenwriter Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans brings her hilarious and heartwarming novel about a family’s road trip across Canada to life in collaboration with screenwriter Semi Chellas...
- 12/24/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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