Digital Domain has brought on board Terry Clotiaux as VP of feature film production while promoting long-time VFX marketing director Joanna Capitano to executive producer and elevating the division’s other exec producer, Lisa Beroud, to a member of the company’s senior management team.
A veteran VFX executive who has worked on more than 35 feature films in a 25-year career, Clotiaux comes on board to oversee all feature films in production at Digital Domain’s California and Vancouver studios, reporting to CEO Ed Ulbrich.
Clotiaux was EP of Digital Domain’s Feature Film Division from 2007 to 2009 where he worked on features including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and 2012. He rejoins the company most recently from Prime Focus Group where he was president of global VFX production. There he oversaw VFX work on feature films including Avatar and Tree of Life, and 2D-to-3D conversion on features including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2, Shrek and Star Wars Episodes I and II. Clotiaux also served as sr. VFX producer at Sony Pictures Imageworks/Columbia Pictures overseeing work on Spider-Man 3, and has been a VFX producer for Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox, InterMedia Films and Columbia Pictures/Tristar. He holds VFX producing credits on The Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions, Independence Day and other top features, commercials and trailers.
Capitano, who has been with the company since 1993, has been a driving force behind bidding and overseeing many of the 100 feature film productions on which Digital Domain has worked. She and Beroud, a 25-year veteran producer of visual effects, live action feature films and commercials, will report to Clotiaux.
In addition to driving bidding and managing feature film productions at Digital Domain, Capitano also oversaw publicity and marketing for the company for more than 10 years, including driving publicity campaigns for two features that earned visual effects Academy Awards๏ฟฝ. She is credited on Oscar๏ฟฝ-nominated Real Steel, Thor and Oscar๏ฟฝ-winning The Golden Compass, among other feature films.
During her tenure at Digital Domain Beroud was the VFX producer on the Oscar๏ฟฝ-winning Curious Case of Benjamin Button as well as TRON: Legacy, Zodiac, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Oblivion. She is currently the EP of visual effects on Ender’s Game. She has produced VFX for commercials from David Fincher, Joseph Kosinski, Carl Rinsch and other top directors, and the live action short Family Tree.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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