Post house Company 3, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., recently provided a variety of postproduction services to its first game project, “Call of Duty๏ฟฝ: Black Ops II,” and concurrently announced the opening of a division dedicated to offering color grading and other high-end post services to the game production community.
“The creation of Company 3 Games represents a new level of collaboration between game developers as well as publishers and providers of feature film-level post services,” said Stefan Sonnenfeld, president and founder of Company 3. Sonnenfeld, who has color graded assorted feature films and commercials, worked with award-winning game developer, Treyarch, to color grade Activision Publishing Inc.’s next installment of the blockbuster “Call of Duty๏ฟฝ” game franchise, “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” set for worldwide release next Tuesday, November 13.
Malte Wagener has been named VP of Games and oversees the division’s work from its offices at Company 3’s Santa Monica headquarters. “With the amazing level of sophistication in games and the immense talent pool in the feature film world, a tight collaboration of the two spheres is a natural development,” he said.
Wagener comes to the position following an extensive career in the video games business. As the director of global business development at Koch Media in Germany, he led that company’s global business development and brand management for products including the international game sensation “Dead Island.” At WEG, a division of CJ Media, in South Korea–the third largest media company on the continent–he led all EMEA gaming efforts, as well as the massive, international eSport cross-promotion known as the World eSport Games.
Wagener added “With the talent and resources of Company 3 and its affiliated companies, we plan to set the new standard for game postproduction.”
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Delay TikTok Ban
President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a "political resolution" to the issue.
The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down a law that could ban the platform by Jan. 19 while the government emphasized its position that the statute is needed to eliminate a national security risk.
"President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute. Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act's deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case," said Trump's amicus brief, which supported neither party in the case and was written by D. John Sauer, Trump's choice for solicitor general.
The argument submitted to the court is the latest example of Trump inserting himself in national issues before he takes office. The Republican president-elect has already begun negotiating with other countries over his plans to impose tariffs, and he intervened earlier this month in a plan to fund the federal government, calling for a bipartisan plan to be rejected and sending Republicans back to the negotiating table.
He has been holding meetings with foreign leaders and business officials at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida while he assembles his administration, including a meeting last week with TikTok CEO Shou Chew.
Trump has reversed his position on the popular app, having tried to ban it during his first term in office over national security concerns. He joined the TikTok during his 2024 presidential campaign and his team used it to connect with younger... Read More